RE: Sniffing Anti Freeze

["Duff, Ian" <iduff@charter.com>]

Check the heater core. I had the same symptoms on a Suburban tow vehicle
whild delivering a boat to Florida in December a lot of years ago. Stank
like all get out for about 400 miles, then the heater core exploded in
Maryland. Steam FILLED the car, making for an interesting braking
exercise with 6000 lbs of boat and 5000 lbs of 'burbo to stop with no
way to see out. I managed to stop at about the same time I got the
window fully rolled down. For the remainder of the trip I fed the heater
in tube into the heater out tube at the firewall (made for cold tootsies
until I got to warm weather), needed a new heater core after I delivered
the boat.

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Ian Duff, 1990 Coupe quattro 20v, Red/Black

Home: New Bedford, MA, USA
Work: Charter Systems, Inc., Waltham, MA, USA
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>From: 	Patrick James[SMTP:jamesp@sk.sympatico.ca]
>Sent: 	Wednesday, 11 September, 1996 02:09 AM
>To: 	quattro@coimbra.ans.net
>Subject: 	Sniffing Anti Freeze 
>
>Greetings;
>I can smell a/f after a run when the temperature has come up to
>operating 
>temp. I can smell it while stopped at lights and the fan is on.
>When parked in the garage it reeks especially around the rad side.
> My 4000q A/F level drops about .5 of litre of in a year. 
>I have checked all hoses and been all over the rad. Is my car toying
>with
>me so I spend more time with it or is it a rad on the verge ?  The odor
>is a  
>drag but I don't want the rad to expire on the highway.  
>
>Does anyone have any previous experience with this ? My ole VW GTI used
>to use the amount fluid also so I not too concerned.
>
>
>  Concerned and sniffing in Sask.
>  
>  Pat James
>  86 4000q 
>  Regina ,Sask 
>   
>  jamesp@orion.sk.sympatico.ca
>