Questions & Answers for: antifreeze smell coming exhaust

Question about 1999 Passat

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...smell like oil or antifreeze. either antifreeze or oil could be mixing with your gas due to a cracked or worn head gasket and causing the blue smoke. that is bad turbo its leaking oil in too the ...

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Question about 1991 Accord

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...engine water comes out of exhaust some water is normal but if you are loosing coolant, running hot or if water from exhaust smells like antifreeze you have a problem (head gasket or cracked

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...smell like? Please be carefull it should only take a second or two to tell what it smells like. (either gas, sweet/antifreeze, or oil) if it is oil it is probably rings, if it is antifreeze then it ...

...antifreeze burning. why? The anti-freeze smells like it burning because it is coming in contact with your brake pads (will contaminate pads and reduce life and increase stopping distance, exhaust ...

...burning off exhaust can u smell the smoke? does it smell like antifreeze ?? if smells like antifreeze more than likely have a coolant leak if has little smell or burning oil smell probably an oil ...

Question about 1993 Intrepid

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smell of antifreeze If it doesn't smell like sweet then you most likely got a bad tank of gas. Just to be safe keep an eye on your engine temp. and coolant levels. White smoke is water, turns to vapor

antifreeze or oil smell) and a small amount of white smoke coming from back of engine under air filter hose near windshield but goes away within a minute or so. Any ideas on what could be causing this

antifreeze/coolant turns to steam, you can usually smell it. It has a distinctive smell - kinda sweet. It is scary and is dangerous to crawl around a running engine, but if you smell the coolant smell

...heater or ac fan on....? Where is the smell coming from? my thought are if smell coming from exhaust, you have a head gasket problem. If smell coming from AC or heater, likely a heater core

Question about 2001 Ram 1500 Truck 2WD

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...smell like antifreeze? antifreeze has a sweet smell. That could mean a bad head gasket. Since it goes away after 15km, I'm assuming the heat expansion on the engine does away with the leak. It could ...

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