Bad heater core?

[Shawn Kubik]

One time I turned it on smoke came out of the upper vents for about 1 second

-----Original Message-----
From: R Mangas [mailto:porter_dog at hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 2:23 PM
To: cobram at juno.com; skubik at attbi.com
Cc: quattro at audifans.com
Subject: Re: Bad heater core?



  FYI, coolant vapor is typically quite toxic.  Yum.






>From: cobram at juno.com
>To: skubik at attbi.com
>CC: quattro at audifans.com
>Subject: Re: Bad heater core?
>Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 14:03:12 -0500
>
>If it's not a sweetish smell, then there's a good chance the smell is
>coming from the brushes in the blower motor.  If it were the heater,
>aside from the smell, you'd also be experiencing fog up on the windows,
>and the smell would not be intermittent.  The blower may be on it's way
>out, I've BTDT with the blower motor, seems to only smell on really cold
>days, during the first operation on a cold car.
>
>BCNU,
>http://www.geocities.com/cobramsri/
>
>"Shawn Kubik" <skubik at attbi.com> writes:
> > This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
> > --
> > Sometimes when I have the blower on and the heat cranked in the
> > morning I get some pretty awful smelling burning kinda smell in the
>cabin,
> > doesn't smell like coolant but whatever it is, it's not healthy
>
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