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Old 01-18-2013, 07:41 PM   #31
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Originally Posted by Canyoncarver View Post
I smelled this when I test drove an frs (9miles on odo ) salesmen said..thats the car breaking in..bullspit!
It's pretty much accepted that there are coatings and oils on a lot of the mechanical parts to protect the metal as it gets shipped that "burns away" when the car gets heat cycled. I smelled it the first ~200 miles and now it's much less noticeable (at about 520 miles).

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