Hi,

Question at work today - workmate has a car which sort of smells of the radiator "boiling" - ie, like metalicy hot water sort of smell - yet coolant level seems ok.
ie, the sort of smell you'd imagine if there was no coolant and the radiator was running dry?

Smells like this after a long hard drive...

Is this a bad sign? Is it just radiator "musk"?? :-)



[Edited by imlach - 3/14/2003 1:38:35 AM]

 

I'm not sure if this will help, but its worth a try. A mate at Fords said add a tiny bit of bleach in the header tank...this apparently gets rid of that peppery smell. Worth a go I s'poe?

Nath

 

Could be that the heater matrix is starting to develop a slow leak, and you're smelling antifreeze being wafted through the ventilation.

 

Except that when anti-freeze gets very hot, it has a peculiarly "curry" like odour.
Alcazar--who has had 3 heater matrices go so far,(not on the Scoob).:

 

He doesn't smell it inside the car, so probably not in the heater matrix. It is just a general smell when outside the car after a spirited drive. Almost like a smell eminating from the radiator system somewhere.......

Sounds like nothing too serious to worry about.

Do you think bleach is worth a try? He wasn't sure!