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i've been having this weird burnt odor coming from my car whenever i drive it..i've tried looking for the cause, but seems to be unsucessful.
does anybody have this kind of problem too... it seems like its coming from the bottom...its really really bad....i can smell it whenever i pull over ... or park my car..... and were talking about short distance driving here.!!
i'm really concerned about this... should i bring it to the dealership or should i just bring it to my mechanic..!?
thanks in advance..!

 
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you've got a plastic bag melted onto your header.. it's most likely right where the header bends back to the rear of the vehicle.

i've had that happen twice with this friggin civic. it's much too easy to friggin do for some reason.

 
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hmmm....i'll check it out..but this thing has been happening for about 2 months now...should the plastic bag burnt out already.?

 
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just look under the car, if you dont see anything, take it to the dealer

 
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I did that once in my old car. I noticed that I ran over it, but it didn't appear in my rear view mirror. I knew that it got stuck. Later I smelled plastic burning. It was on the car for something like a week.

 
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LOL...when it happened to me I thought it was so weird and improbable that it surely wouldn't happen to many people...then again, my car is pretty low and the freakin' pipe hangs even lower due to the absence of the central tunnel[IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-mad.gif[/IMG]

 
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could be that if you had any work done on your car recently that the liquid wrench or whatever they use to loosen bolts and pipes is burning. doubt it but it could be.....

 
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it's definatly the plastic bag theory..

this happens all to often...i always avoid them while driving..this guy i know ran over a plastic bag filled with other plastic bags and his car stunk for a very long time..haha

 
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as long as scumbags litter we'll be running their junk over, i almost ran over a milk shake i would have been pissed 1350 for rims and tires and all because some a$$holes littered

 
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worry not, it'll eventually fully burn off...its not the header even.......

Too be totally specific you rarn over a plastic bag and it melted on to your cat. convertor.

Let this be a lesson, if you see a plastic bag, try to avoid it, orelse you'll have that smell to contend with for about a month....

Happened to me when my car was new, I pwas so pissed, I went to the dealer FUMING, and was later embarassed when the problem was shown to me.....

lesson learned....

RF Bwoy

 
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i have a different but similar problem. when i turn on the fan with no A/C, it smells really bad. sometimes it smells like pure air, but other times it smells just plain bad. but when i turn on the A/C it goes away. i know it's going away because it's running through the A/C, but why is it there at all? i can't describe the smell, but it's definatly not burning plastic bag.

 
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maybe you hit a skunk and its remnants are attached to your condenser? [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-puke.gif[/IMG]

just playin man..i dont know...neverheard of that

RF Bwoy

 
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Have you found out what the culprit was? I knew a mate of mine who ran over some roadkill, let me tell you, the smell was AWFUL!!!