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Oct 20th, 2017, 13:39 | #1 |
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Smell of curry and a bad cough !
I think you guys should know about this issue as I see it as a health issue.
I've had two C70s which have both had a stink of what can only be described as curry. This gets really strong when you have the heaters on. Also had a really bad cough which I first put down to early mornings and a bug. However to cut a long story short...the coolant was vaporizing through a tiny tiny hole in the heater matrix. What itd under pressure it's fine but when it exits via a tiny hold it vaporizes. The car obviously would be using coolant but the tiny amount it was using didn't show up substantially to raise warning flags. If you used a bright led light at night in the car with the heater on you could see the vaporized coolant in the air Obviously breathing in coolant I wouldn't recommend...but im glad I sorted it. Takes less than an hour to swap matrix over...just remember to get the two seals for thr rear connections .
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Oct 20th, 2017, 20:43 | #2 |
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With the age of these cars now a new one would probably give you a much better heat output anyway.
The A/C can be a bit foosty on them as well. Worth putting a spray through the evaporator as well at some point.
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VV70, newbie. I may think that a seal doesn't do its work fine, and there some liquid that comes on a part of the exhaust somewhere. I would have a look to the 2 hoses that comes in the interior of the car, coming from the engine. I would control also in the car, the carpet behind each side of the central top column. Here the catalog of C70 to 2005. For references. I would control these parts : How to : (From Our friend Robert) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89GRaG1FDFI I hope it will helpful. Cheers. VV70
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