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Old Jun 5, 2003
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Whats that smell

for those of you who know, i left my car on idle for 8 hours last night on accident, because i fell asleep. i left the car off after the 8 hours for almost 10 hours. when i went to go drive the car around, i smelled something god awful coming out from the exhuast. it smells like some kinda burning. please help! any good mechanics here? help me! its a 5spd 2002, with 22,000 miles on it. everything is fine with the coolant level...., but what can be this smell?
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mabey while you had your car runnning last night a small animal crawled up in youe exhaust pipe and made itself a little home and this morning while you were driving, the animal was sucked up your exhaust and shredded to bloody pulp
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you got some bad gas. its ur car ripping a bad one. car farts > you
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I'm thinking it's your catalytic converter. Smell should go away with some milage
 
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