Scot

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i have 250 miles, and i can still smell my car from about 30 feet away. blaaaa.

anyone have 1000 miles and still smell all that burning love?

TaiwanEvo

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NO.. I just hit 1000 miles today.. that smell is gone.. Or maybe i'm just use to it.. I really have no idea.. U know how when you first have a Air freshner in ur car.. like the first couple day the smile is overwhleming but like 4 days later.. you dont' even reconize it until someone compliments you about the smell of ur car..

MalibuJack

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I don't even notice a burning smell with my car.. When its hot, it has that 'hot engine' smell, but I'm used to that with my race car.. Its kinda a metallic smell to me.. Other than that, it smells like a new car to me.

eternal9

I have 440 miles so far and I still smell it.

yycools

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I have about 130 mile on mine and the smell is almost gone, I can still smell it when I push the car around 4500-5k for a while. It was scary when the car just got here and I first test drove it, it was smoking and I can see the smoke out of the heat vent, that scared me but I guess it was normal......

poknatcha

Are you talking about the clutch or just the car in general?

Jonasan50

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It's the coating that is sprayed on the exhaust manifold.. It burns away as it settles into the metal... After about 500 miles I noticed that it started going away... If you go buy a new manifold, that one will burn too, it's totally normal...

Evo2003.5

I have about 2500 miles on the odo, and the burnin' smell is gone. I did notice it a LOT when it was new. Just give it some time - this setup runs very hot and the undercoating needs to burn off, the cat broken in, etc.

Evo2003.5

M3rcer

Yeah, It's call Cosmolene and we use it on all our BMWs and MINIs out of the factory---first 1k it should go away, occassionally you'll get a whiff here and there with hard driving till about 3k

Sano

Mine was gone around 700 miles, smelt like it was burning engine paint or somthing anyways all is well

BoxerSTi

Is normal for all brand new cars, especially cars need to ship over the sea. Is a spray clothing over the engine bay area that will prevent rust.

Thwack

im at like 750 miles, and the smell is gone... but the whole 2 times i've turned on my A/C, its smelled like an old shoe.. is there some kind of break in or smell for ac coolant that will go away?

wkehn

Looks like I passed you in Mileage there Y I too still smell the engine somewhat and also get a little smoke out the vent when washed.

skbydoo

I get scared cause it smell like a cat gettin baked on the manifold. The smoke isn't to thrilling either. P.S. Does anyone know what color wine goes with cat.

evo1

At 600 miles (supposed brak-in), I thought the smell was gone, but then I drove it extemely hard for the 1st time and it came back. Fortunately, at 930 miles now I no longer detect it.