This morning I turned the heater on and it gave out this burning scent. It wasn't consistent and this is the first time it has happened. I use my heater regularly. I turned it on when the car was half warmed up and was driving under 2K RPM. It's defo. not my clutch because it was a different smell. Smelled almost like burning food or paper.

Edit: It's not my brakes either since I wasn't hard braking at all.

 

I am starting to have the same problem with my 2012, I got 26k and its starting to get worse

 

This may sound a bit nasty but it happened to me when I was deployed and I left my father-in-law the evo. A mice nest found itself in my engine bay and somehow down to my cabin filter. The damn things were eating the cabin filter so when I replaced it, about 1/3 of it was gone. My father in law said he had a weird smell when he had it and my money was on that.

Moral of the story, go check your cabin filter and see if you got something cooking in there.

 

Do all fans speeds work? If only one speed works (likely the highest setting), the blower motor resistor has fried. It will smell like electrical.