far Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 Over the last few days I have had a weird smell of what can be best described as burning rubber coming from underneath the car what seems like under the drivers seat,I am thinking that A - I did scrape the bottom of my exhaust the other day coming off a steep incline and one of the rubber holder things has come away and is touching a hot part of the car B - I have dropped a bit of hose when installing my silicone hose kit somewhere in the engine bay and this is getting hot and melting. C - Something major has gone wrong. The smell was really bad to start with when I first noticed it and seemed to be coming from the engine bay when I lifted the bonnet,it is now really hardly noticable unless you bend down and smell underneath the car. I will of course get down to a garage and get the car on a ramp - just thought someone else may have had a similiar experience or shed some light on this ? cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
far Posted January 6, 2004 Author Share Posted January 6, 2004 btw - no loss in performance,car drives fine and boost levels are normal etc... also could htis be the clutch on its way out ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJI Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 Your option 'A' sounds most likely. None of your exhaust should touch the car's body or the rubber supports that hold the exhaust brackets. You may have forced the exhaust to come into contact with one of the rubber supports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
far Posted January 6, 2004 Author Share Posted January 6, 2004 cheers dude - I will check it out once its on a ramp although the smell seems to come from under the drivers seat and most of the rubber things are towards the back ? and also I htink I only scraped the back end of the exhaust - we will see Any other suggestions people ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve W2 Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 Stop wheelspinning mate! My car had the same thing when I first bought it and I phoned the guy I bought it from who was going to have a look at it the next weekend. Before that time cam it just stopped, what ever it was is obviously burnt off now:conf: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
far Posted January 6, 2004 Author Share Posted January 6, 2004 Originally posted by Steve W2 Stop wheelspinning mate! My car had the same thing when I first bought it and I phoned the guy I bought it from who was going to have a look at it the next weekend. Before that time cam it just stopped, what ever it was is obviously burnt off now:conf: lol - hmm it does sound like its "burning off" like you said as the smell is progressively getting less & less - does anyone know if a clutch which is on it way out would have that smell ? someone at work said it could be this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeT Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 belt slipping? did you forget to put one of the heat shields back on the hoses you replaced? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
far Posted January 6, 2004 Author Share Posted January 6, 2004 no I checked all the hoses to see if they had melted but nothing,I also replaced all the heat shielding on the hoses. If the belt is slipping would that cause a problem with a rubber smell ? also this would surely have an effect on the performance ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dude Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 Id have to sniff it to make a guess , Paul E had this turned out to be his bag overheating !!!! Dude:flame Dev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
far Posted January 6, 2004 Author Share Posted January 6, 2004 Cheers dude - are you going to the southampton meet ? was wondering if you could have a sniff for me >? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dude Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 Originally posted by far Cheers dude - are you going to the southampton meet ? was wondering if you could have a sniff for me >? No too busy !!!!! but Pauls going , you could sniff his bag then heat it and sniff again and compare to your smell !!!! Dude:flame Dev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul R Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 Originally posted by dude No too busy !!!!! but Pauls going , you could sniff his bag then heat it and sniff again and compare to your smell !!!! Dude:flame Dev boom boom.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
far Posted January 6, 2004 Author Share Posted January 6, 2004 Originally posted by dude No too busy !!!!! but Pauls going , you could sniff his bag then heat it and sniff again and compare to your smell !!!! Dude:flame Dev lmfao ! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted January 7, 2004 Share Posted January 7, 2004 In my experience, burning clutches smell like really heavily boiled sprouts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
far Posted January 7, 2004 Author Share Posted January 7, 2004 Originally posted by Rob In my experience, burning clutches smell like really heavily boiled sprouts. Dont eat sprouts so would never know ! If this was one of the belts would the smell not be coming from the engine bay more and not underneath the car ? Also if it was a belt why would the smell be reduced in time ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRD3000GT Posted January 7, 2004 Share Posted January 7, 2004 sounds like you have run over a plasic bag and it has melted to the exhaust system. I had the same thing a while ago. It just ended up burning the smell off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
far Posted January 7, 2004 Author Share Posted January 7, 2004 Originally posted by TRD3000GT sounds like you have run over a plasic bag and it has melted to the exhaust system. I had the same thing a while ago. It just ended up burning the smell off. cool - I really hope thats all it is - will try and have a buthers underneath at some point this week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Ad Posted January 7, 2004 Share Posted January 7, 2004 Was gonna say the same thing TRD. Did it a Rover once and it stank. Just waited for it to burn off though then everything was fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dude Posted January 7, 2004 Share Posted January 7, 2004 It'd smell far worse if you ran over Pauls bag !!!! Dude:flame Dev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted January 8, 2004 Share Posted January 8, 2004 Lets hope he doesn't like asparagus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terawua Posted April 2, 2005 Share Posted April 2, 2005 mine made a funny burning smell... turned out there was a plastics bag stuck to the exhaust.... that burnt off eventually too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terawua Posted April 2, 2005 Share Posted April 2, 2005 It'd smell far worse if you ran over Pauls bag !!!! Dude:flame Dev handbag??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terminator Posted April 2, 2005 Share Posted April 2, 2005 LOL This thread reminds me of a stunt we pulled 20 years ago, I wired a kipper to the underside of a "friends" manifold for a joke. It took him a week to find it. The stench was unbearable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted April 3, 2005 Share Posted April 3, 2005 In my experience, burning clutches smell like really heavily boiled sprouts. Oh bugger! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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