Issues with my coolant (Mazda 626, 1991)?

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If anyone can help, it'd be muchly appreciated.

I've got a 1991 Mazda 626 with over 200,000km on the dial. It's old, but it runs superbly. Up until today, when I was pulling into a parking lot. In an instant, the front defroster vents started pumping out very hot air (fogged up the windows immediately, etc). I parked the car and had a look around the engine, nothing seemed amiss.

However, the passenger side legroom-area was about a centimeter deep with fluid. I initially thought it was apple juice (as I had a container of that sitting there earlier) but after i smelled it - it seemed to be coolant. I recognized a drip leak, slow but steady, and jury-rigged a solution (duct tape). I drove off again, confident I could get home and sort it out when the fogging happened again, except the steam came from underneath the glove box as well as the defroster vents.

Anyway, my question is this: Wtf is wrong with my 626? Is it just the coolant leak? Is there a bigger problem? Help!
 
It is probably your heater core leaking. You will have to have it replaced. I had the same problem.
 
Sorry to say the heater core has given up the ghost
It is blowing the air across the core and blowing the leak up into the vent.
The reason it is not coming out both vents it the leak is closer to the drivers side.
If you want to keep the car, you need a new heater core This can get costly as in some cases you must remove the entire dash to get at it.
Check with some local shops in your aera as to the cost.
 
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