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11-13-2008, 10:50 PM | #1 |
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Burning Smell
Since last night, the heater started smelling like something was burning. At first, I though it was a friend's deisel truck next to me, but when I was driving, noticed that it was my car.
Now I opened the engine bay and no smell in there and went behind and nothing. When I checked the the ehaust tip, I don't know if it's me but I thought that the exhaust wasn't blowing out as hard as it normally does. The car is 2 years old and I have never experienced anything like this before. Only time I have (in terms of a smell different to this) was with the A/C, but making my own filter for the blower took care of that (which I did through a DIY on here before the hack). Only other thing I can think of is if the stupid speedbumps at work somehow managed to pinch the exhaust without me hearing anything (have heard it twice, but nothing recent). I was going to jack the car up today to check, but it was raining. I'm gonna check tomorrow and if that's the case, then time to upgrade to the Nitto midpipe. I have no idea. Anyone else experience something like this before?
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11-13-2008, 11:22 PM | #2 |
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Does It Smell Electrical?
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11-13-2008, 11:30 PM | #3 |
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Have you hit your exhaust on speedbumps? I suppose you could damage the seal between the header and midpipe creating a leak...
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11-14-2008, 12:09 AM | #4 |
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I'm thinking it might be the coolant reacting with "scale/rust/particulate/whatever" in the heater core for the hvac unit.....least thats what I always notice when I turn the heater on for like the two or three days out of the year I use it....just give it a few days to 'flush' it out; if it doesn't go away then its off to the dealer....
unless the hvac doesn't use coolant for the heater part I dunno I haven't messed with this car's hvac yet.... |
11-14-2008, 12:12 AM | #5 |
Have you got loose papers in your drivers side glovebox? If so they can get sucked into the AC/Heater fan. It could cause a fire. My suggestion have a look.
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11-14-2008, 10:44 AM | #6 |
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I ran over a speed bump in a previous car and smashed the cat converter. 2 days later the damn thing caught on fire.
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11-14-2008, 11:20 AM | #7 | ||
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Nope. Unless it's literally under the dash, checked everything I could see and all seems to be well.
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No, all papers are in the box securely. Plus I placed a filter there so it can't get sucked in even if the cover fell off. I have a carbon one and checked it to see if it was it, but no go.
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11-14-2008, 11:35 AM | #8 |
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Were you by any chance running the heat for the first time this season?
Also, did the smell go away (and, if so after how long)? |
11-14-2008, 01:25 PM | #9 |
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Yes, if your heater core was seeping at all you'd notice a sweet smell, and probably would notice that your windows were fogging, plus fluid leaking on the mat and/or on the ground if the leak was bad enough.
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11-14-2008, 03:12 PM | #10 |
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Yeah nah, deff not a sweet smell.
Well after 3 days, the smell seems to have gone away. Basically I let the car run and blow as stated by Shroomster. Still gonna look under the car just incase, but it seems to have done the trick. It was just weird that it had happened out of the blue. All 5 of my previous cars never did anything like that. No been running it for about a a month to two months.
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11-14-2008, 05:16 PM | #11 | ||
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and I remember in school the heaters would have dust on the coils from being in storage and you could smell the dust burning off Quote:
and yeah the sweet smell would be a leak because that smell stays with the coolant the burning smell is an end result of the reaction..... Last edited by Shroomster; 11-14-2008 at 05:32 PM. |
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11-15-2008, 01:24 PM | #12 |
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2 possibility ..from engine or exhaust. sometime i also burning smell when raining. confused
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11-15-2008, 07:09 PM | #13 |
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Did you get married recently? Every time one of my friends gets married we do the traditional decorating of the get away car. We usually get a can of sardines and put it up under the dash so after a few days it gets to smelling pretty bad. Maybe someone is playing a joke on you?
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11-15-2008, 09:54 PM | #14 |
Maybe something, like a small rodent, or a bug of some sort, got into the engine bay or heater area and it cooked itself on he engine or whatever. If it has gone away, that might have been it, and you would probably never find it because it would either be burnt to a crisp or may have fallen off or even fell into one of those neat spots in the frame section where things disapear.
Just a side note, I thought the joke was funny, but could have been followed up in the same message with something helpful. We all need to smile and laugh. Especially now-a-days. Drive On! |
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11-19-2008, 11:22 PM | #15 |
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Here's a funny thing. The night that this all started on, it happened again tonight a week later. Found out that it's the fog light system fuse. For some reason it has to do with the inline fuse.
I have the DLAA aftermarket ones. I connected it exactly to the DIY that was written before the hack with v2 so that I can get the foglight indicator on the cluster to work. Anyone else with the same fogs experience this? Now I'm gonna have to go through the connections again.
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11-20-2008, 12:20 AM | #16 |
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dlaa, is that the ebay version? i remember htm yaris having problem with the ebay yellow fog lights...
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11-20-2008, 01:36 AM | #17 |
what size bulbs are you running in your fogs,
as the yaris prewired setup is only designed for 50watt max, wireing is to light to run anything bigger safely. just a thought. |
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11-20-2008, 02:09 AM | #18 |
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I would start the car and let it warm-up. Then the second I would smell the burn, I would pop open the hood and sniff around for the same smell. If it's there too, then it's gotta be exhaust heat that's either too close to or it's coming in contact to something near the cabin air intake. I would then take care of it ASAP because I would be convinced that there's damage to somewhere in the exhaust line (possibly a hole or a knocked-loose connection), which could be causing more damage to something else since there's a burning smell. I would try not to drive the car until it's fixed just to be safe.
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