Q: Car is overheating - 2005 Dodge Neon
I recently got a new radiator, heater core, thermostat, housing gasket, thermostat, new transmission lines, the car still overheats every 2 weeks if i dont top of the antifreeze. I have had a smoke test ran to see if it was the head gasket but it came back no. If i put my car in park and open the doors im immediately slammed with fuems that smell like antifreeze, but oil is not milky, exhaust is not white, i dont know why it keeps losing antifreeze? No leaks underneath, nothing to explain the loss of antifreeze.
My car has 151600 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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Hello. If the engine is not leaking any coolant and it is still disappearing, then it is more than likely a head gasket. A smoke test will not show a head gasket issue, but a block test would. Even then, some of the time I have to use a four gas analyzer or a cylinder cam to tell if there is an internal leak. The engine would not overheat if everything else was working fine.
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