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Old 23 December 2009, 05:32 PM
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Hi all,
just after a bit of advice regarding the quite strong smell of antifreeze from my car.
You can smell it through the heater vents and also if i smell around the rad area this also is very noticleable.
The strange thing about this though is there appears to be no leaks noticeable.
Only been a owner for 2 months,do any of you guys have this with your motors(02 wrx) or have any idea what it may be?
Thank you
alan
Old 23 December 2009, 07:25 PM
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On my classic had something similar smelled antifreeze in cabin, Turned out to be heater matrix had anti freeze in passanger foot well from heater vent. One possibility. cheers gary
Old 23 December 2009, 07:44 PM
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As above my cousin has a bugeye WRX and his heater matrix failed. So it could be...
Old 23 December 2009, 11:44 PM
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Thanks for your replys,i will take this into consideration.
Should this be the problem do you know how much to replace?
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Old 24 December 2009, 07:24 AM
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Its not a cheap job, parts are normally reasonable, fitting it is a pig as its a dash out job
Would suggest doing it sooner rather than later due to the cold weather.

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