# 2000 Dodge Dakota Pickup Smoke comes from heater/ac vent

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/2000-dodge-dakota-pickup-smoke-comes-from-heater-ac-vent/11378>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Created:** [March 3, 2008, 2:14am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2000-dodge-dakota-pickup-smoke-comes-from-heater-ac-vent/11378 "2008-03-03T02:14:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![old-farmall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc79bd/32.png) [@old-farmall](https://community.cartalk.com/u/old-farmall)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 2:14am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2000-dodge-dakota-pickup-smoke-comes-from-heater-ac-vent/11378/1 "2008-03-03T02:14:47Z")

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My dad owns a 2000 Dodge Dakota and when he turns on the air conditioner blower, a puff of what appears to be white smoke, comes out of the vent. This is not all the time. It also smells like something is getting hot. Is there something inside the vent system that would cause this? No fuse has blown yet. Thanks for your help.

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**Author:** ![pleasedodgevan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/51bf81/32.png) [@pleasedodgevan](https://community.cartalk.com/u/pleasedodgevan)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 3:47am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2000-dodge-dakota-pickup-smoke-comes-from-heater-ac-vent/11378/2 "2008-03-03T03:47:54Z")

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Turn the heat up and see if it is steam. Heater core leaks in that case.

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**Author:** ![MG-McAnick](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mg-mcanick/32/188_2.png) [@MG-McAnick](https://community.cartalk.com/u/MG-McAnick)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 4:19am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2000-dodge-dakota-pickup-smoke-comes-from-heater-ac-vent/11378/3 "2008-03-03T04:19:52Z")

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Does the “smoke” smell strangely like maple syrup?

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**Author:** ![old-farmall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc79bd/32.png) [@old-farmall](https://community.cartalk.com/u/old-farmall)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 2:54am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2000-dodge-dakota-pickup-smoke-comes-from-heater-ac-vent/11378/4 "2008-03-04T02:54:04Z")

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It smells like something electronic is getting hot. It doesn’t smoke all the time and it very light smoke. I thought it was frost at first.

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**Author:** ![NYBo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nybo/32/17281_2.png) [@NYBo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/NYBo)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 4:21pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2000-dodge-dakota-pickup-smoke-comes-from-heater-ac-vent/11378/5 "2008-03-04T16:21:20Z")

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It’s probably one of the elements in the blower motor resistor block getting ready to go “poof!” Does the blower motor work on all speeds?