I've been smelling this weird burnt smell while i'm driving, i thought it was just the oustside of somebody's car but yesterday i was driving home following my wife, i asked her if she smelt the same thing driving home and she didn't. I usually smell it when i have the heater on. I'm wondering if any one here has a similiar problem, i was thinking about taking my car in to see but i just haven't gotten time to.

 

lol when the heater is on.. it could be that OR OR ppl would most likely say its the Clutch. Did u do sumthin stupid ? Anywayz it could be nething else but my guess clutch? A lil info on the car wit miles on it and mods would be helpful

 

it is a stock 04 rs. it has around 16000 miles on it, it drives fine and nothing wrong with it i believe.

 

Did you get your oil changed recently?

 

The first few days i drove my EVO (break-in periord), i would get that burnt smell. Still in break-in period but doesn't smell no mo

 

clutch is my guess? It's a smell like nothing else so you would know if it was.

 

I changed my oil like almost 3000 miles ago, i was thinking it might be that, i going to changed it again, and see if i still have.

Hopefully it is not my clutch.

 

Check under your car and see if you ran over a plastic bag or something and it got melted to the exhaust pipe. That happened to me, and it took me about 20 minutes to scrape all the melted bags off (I say bags because it was everywhere!)

 

I've never thought about that, i'll check that when i get home tonight.

 

Clutch gets my vote.

 

Bags get my vote.

 

i now have 12k miles on my car and since like first week of ownership, every time i run it hard, i get this burnt rotten egg smell. smells almost like plastic hoses or something. it's mostly noticeable when car sits still after i ran it at high rpms. it's not clutch because i know what that smells like, it's not coolant, because i know that smell too. the smell comes from the outside of the car, but i don't see any melted plastic anything underneath, nor do i really care.
ps: if anyone really cares, i can put my nose to good use and investimagate this further this weekend if i burn my nose on something hot, it'll be all ur fault!

 

A rotten egg smell is a catalytic converter. Maybe it happens before the exhaust gets warmed up or something.

 

i get that same rotten egg smell too, but only after driving between 6-7.5k rpm
and after i turn off the car.if it was the catalytic converter why would you smell it after the car is turned off

 

that sounds feasible. i just never get to run the car hard for long periods of time (only 5 mins at a time at high rpms with 15mins cruising in between). maybe if i had, the smell would eventually go away.

that's exactly how it happens on mine. always has.

we're going to need Scooby Doo to solve this rotten smell mystery