Sweet Smell Coming from Vents...Coolant? Oil?
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Nope...no gas or anything. Also I can sometimes smell it if I start the car with the door open. but its only right I start it up. The A/C still blows cold. Sometimes I'll notice a few small drops of oil under the car if its parked for a couple days. Why do I have this strange suspicion that my car is slowly dying?
Becuase it is...jp
Sure know how to make me feel better haha...I just wanna make sure my baby is worth holding on to cuz I'm partially debating selling before some real problems start surfacing like say...shot manifold gaskets lol
Nope...no gas or anything. Also I can sometimes smell it if I start the car with the door open. but its only right I start it up. The A/C still blows cold. Sometimes I'll notice a few small drops of oil under the car if its parked for a couple days. Why do I have this strange suspicion that my car is slowly dying?
You have an oil leak in the engine compartment. It is probably your valve cover gaskets. Also check your PCV. I had a gasoline smell in my vents untill I figured out my fuel pressure sensor was leaking. For some reason the engine smells get into the stangs.
You have an oil leak in the engine compartment. It is probably your valve cover gaskets. Also check your PCV. I had a gasoline smell in my vents untill I figured out my fuel pressure sensor was leaking. For some reason the engine smells get into the stangs.
How much of a pain is it to replace the valve cover gaskets?
It is not too bad. The driver's side is tricky though. The valve cover gaskets are rubber and re-usable but it depends if anyone did work on the car and torqued them correctly. Use a torque wrench and tighten them slowly all at once to specified torque per the owner's manual. You can also use a little Permatex to temporarily hold the gaskets until you place the valve cover.
What I would do is first take it to a garage and have them figure out where the oil leak comes from. What they do is place some flourescent dye in your engine oil, run the car, then scan it with a flourescent light to find the leak. I don't like oil leaks since they make a mess of driveways and you go thru a lot of oil.
It sounds like a heater core to me. That's a real pain in the ass to change. They can do the flourescent dye with the antifreeze as well. It would probably cost an hours labor to find out. Get a quote from them first, most shops do this all the time to find leaks so they should be able to tell you before you bring it in.
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