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Yes definitely. The antifreeze cools the engine by carrying the heat out of the engine and through the radiator where the heat is dissipated. The antifreeze also passes through the heater core, a fan blows over the heater core and produces the heat for inside the car. While there are a number of reasons that the heater inside the car could stop working, no or low antifreeze is certainly one of the primary culprits. Furthermore, this is a very serious situation as not having enough antifreeze will cause the engine to overheat and seize up causing total engine failure which will be very costly to fix.
The most important thing anti freeze does is to keep the liquid in the cooling system from freezing, if there is no anti freeze and the liquid freezes and turns to a solid it will expand and crack the engine block and heads or pop out the freeze plugs if you are lucky, always keep anti freeze in your cooling system, never straight water.
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Does antifreeze make the heat in a car work?
Yes, if your low on antifreeze, there may not be enough to fill the heater core, and you wont get any heat. If your heat is not blowing that should be the first thing you check.
What does undiluted antifreeze to do an engine?
During the summer your engine would actually run hotter because antifreeze has a lower specific heat than does water. (That means a pure antifreeze solution will act as a better insulator than water---less heat will be transferred through the pure antifreeze solution.) Even during the winter, a 100 percent antifreeze solution isn't a good idea. A pure antifreeze solution actually provides less protection against freezing than does a mix solution.
Why does your heater blow hot air?
to heat a space. the ducts move from the evaporator(a/c) to the heater core, where the core has hot antifreeze going thru it and a blower motor blowing across it produces heat
What is the effect of antifreeze?
Antifreeze is used as an engine coolant. While keeping an engine from overheating, the liquid also disperses the heat through the vehicles heater core, giving passengers warmth in the winter.
The heat and front defrost stoped blowing hot air on your 1997 Nissan Altima The ac works fine Could this be the thermostat or is it the heater core?
check the antifreeze
Why do i have Poor heat from 89 lebaron 2.5 turbo?
If your heater blower is blowing enough air,then look too see that you have enough antifreeze in the radiator.If the antifreeze is all the way up then check your thermostat ,it may be stuck or partially opened.
Why would water be leaking from the tailpipe of a 2005 Chevy Silver ado?
If its water and not antifreeze, Then that is called condensation, Its winter time and the exhaust system is cold and when heat flows through it, it starts to sweat.
What heat transfer is used when a fan is blowing?
Actually, there isn't any heat transfer when a fan is blowing. But, if you really need the answer, the closest one would be radiation.
Why no heat after new heater core an thermostate motor runs hot no heat?
Are you sure the thermostat is installed correctly, or is it low on antifreeze? I would check the antifreeze level first.
Why is it warmer by the ocean on a cold winter day?
The Ocean acts as a Heat Sink, that is it holds onto Heat Energy. So the Air blowing in off of the Ocean is warmed by it.
Why is antifreeze added to car radiators?
because liquid, especially water can dissipate heat. Water's actually the best at dissipating heat but since water boils/freezes(we don't want that especially in the winter, it'll just crack your rad due to expansion) they add antifreeze.
Your 2001 Dodge Intrepid overheated stopped blowing heat Then you added water and antifreeze now it seems to work Does that mean it is fixed?
No, you don't know where the coolant went to. Have it pressure tested.
