What does it mean when your heater core is leaking?

What does it mean when your heater core is leaking?

Having a leaking heater core can be one of the most frustrating leaks you can have in your vehicle.   Almost any leak in your car is an external leak, meaning the leaking fluid will just leak out onto the ground.

Can a car heater core leak into the cabin?

Even if you have an older vehicle with the heater core outside the cabin, leaking fluid can still find its way into the cabin through the ventilation ducts. Having coolant leaking into the cabin of your vehicle can cause all sorts of problems.

What happens when coolant leaks into the cabin?

Having coolant leaking into the cabin of your vehicle can cause all sorts of problems.   First, when your car isn’t warmed up yet, the coolant will make a mess on your floorboards and possible start the process of corrosion.   As the coolant leaks onto your floor it will soak into your carpet and the padding.

Where does the heater core need to be in a car?

The heater core needs to be right next to the fan that pushes the air through your ventilation system.   That fan needs to be near the firewall of your car so it can have the ability to both pull air in from outside the vehicle, or recirculate the air in the cabin depending on the settings of the system.

Having a leaking heater core can be one of the most frustrating leaks you can have in your vehicle.   Almost any leak in your car is an external leak, meaning the leaking fluid will just leak out onto the ground.

Even if you have an older vehicle with the heater core outside the cabin, leaking fluid can still find its way into the cabin through the ventilation ducts. Having coolant leaking into the cabin of your vehicle can cause all sorts of problems.

Having coolant leaking into the cabin of your vehicle can cause all sorts of problems.   First, when your car isn’t warmed up yet, the coolant will make a mess on your floorboards and possible start the process of corrosion.   As the coolant leaks onto your floor it will soak into your carpet and the padding.

  The heater core needs to be right next to the fan that pushes the air through your ventilation system.   That fan needs to be near the firewall of your car so it can have the ability to both pull air in from outside the vehicle, or recirculate the air in the cabin depending on the settings of the system.