Smell on hands after driving?

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Lakitu

I can't explain what it smells like too well, but I can say what it doesn't.

On the back of my hand:
- Not sweet, like fruit, candy, syrup
- Not pleasing like perfume, fabric softener, lotion, deodorant, febreeze
- Not strong like burnt electronics/pcb, metals, rubber
- Not stinky like sewerage, excretion, rotten food/drink
- Not smoky like wood, charcoal, fire
- Not chemical like oil, gasoline, cleaning spray, soap, hand sanitizer
- Somewhat faintly burnt material smell on skin

From vents:
- Somewhat earthy, like hot dirt, damp wood, old water that has been in contact with wood
- Somewhat like hot sandpaper

Maybe it is something factory just burning off, but my car is 15k miles at 9 months. How long does it actually take to burn off factory smells?

Surely anything from the factory, that was volatile, would have dissipated by now.


humfrz

[8RZ]

Change your cabin air filter, spray some Fabreeze around the interior, take a shower, report back.

[JD001]

I think the OP is suffering from a real bad head cold and it's fucking with his sense of smell and taste. Making everything smell like teen spirit... yeah, yeah I know, but it was screaming for a connection.. now I'm in nirvana.

[mrderp]

OP, just use this lovely product, it will hide everything right up.

17 and crickets are a first, would you mind sharing your build date?

[PetrolioBenzina]

OP, go to the dealer. The easy place to start is the cabin air filter. Like others have said, you may have a mold problem, but I'm willing to bet you have a leak of some sort, so check the AC system, too.

Put a glove over one of the vents on the way to the shop, and when you get there you can say "smell the glove".

[PetrolioBenzina]

Have you used anything like ArmorAll on the interior? Do you park in the sun a lot?

[wireman957]

Originally Posted by PetrolioBenzina

Put a glove over one of the vents on the way to the shop, and when you get there you can say "smell the glove".

[funwheeldrive]

Originally Posted by PetrolioBenzina

My 17 still smells like a hot slot car after it warms up. As has been said, the cricket is normal but you are the first (I think) to notice a 17 doing that.

Originally Posted by mrderp

OP, just use this lovely product, it will hide everything right up.

17 and crickets are a first, would you mind sharing your build date?

I've seen several MY17 owners confirm crickets in their car, most of them almost immediately after driving off the lot.

[Sarlacc]

Originally Posted by Lakitu

Is it normal to have some strange burnt smell on your hands after driving a manual car? The smell on my hands is most prominent when the AC has been running and lingers on my hands for hours after driving. I've been driving a new 2017 manual 86 for about 9 months and its been a consistent thing, no matter how hard or gently I drive the car. I drive for 80 miles total or roughly 3 hours each day on commute. Car has about 15k miles.

I've also noticed ever since I've owned the car a brief and faint smell of some kind of heated/hot/lightly-burning of material I can't describe that comes through the AC vents whenever I let the car engine break, or if I let off the throttle while going at speed, or randomly while upshifting between 3-4-5th, depending on how messy the shift was and engine rpms. I believe this is the smell that is absorbed into my hands. The smell is annoying because even if I wash my hands it's still there. Could this be clutch related?

Also, and unrelated, about a month ago I've noticed a cricket sound coming from the engine after maybe 20 minutes of driving. It doesn't seem like a belt squeal or squeak, but more like a high pitch cricket that match the speed of each piston. Under the hood, I place my ear over the engine area, the sound is loudest on the right side of the car and directly over the right side intake manifold. The cricket sound goes away at higher rpms, and most noticeable at idle. Is there something wrong?

Replace the broken engine, maybe that'll fix the smell?

[PetrolioBenzina]

OP, if you hands are getting coated with crap while you drive, you are breathing it also. Time for a shop visit.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by PetrolioBenzina

OP, if you hands are getting coated with crap while you drive, you are breathing it also. Time for a shop visit.

Well daaaaaaaa..........how in the heck do you think he's smelling it .......

(jest ah messen wich ya - it's been a loooong week at pa-pa's day care ...... many smelly diapers)




humfrz

[PetrolioBenzina]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Well daaaaaaaa..........how in the heck do you think he's smelling it .......
(jest ah messen wich ya - it's been a loooong week at pa-pa's day care ...... many smelly diapers)

humfrz

I've been guilty of not realizing that in the past.

[PetrolioBenzina]

OP, post the answer if you get this figured out.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by PetrolioBenzina

I've been guilty of not realizing that in the past.

Well, like they say ....... "once you get past the smell, ya got it licked".

God ...... I'm old ...... someone should just me ......


humfrz