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mRdeMs83 · 07-06-2012, 12:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ill86

Are you abusing the clutch? No smells from my fr-s.. Had it on the circuit at 100 miles on the odo. Maybe try and locate the smell. Show the dealer?

Not that I'm abusing the clutch at least I don't think so. Just when I start going through 3rd on up at 6k after so down I notice it.

Mr. Mcoupe · 07-06-2012, 12:58 PM

Did you run over a plastic bag? Look under the car for any melted plastic. Of course, this smell would remain after the car is shut down/parked so I am probably wrong.

blu_ · 07-06-2012, 01:01 PM

Most new cars get a bit smelly. Between cats breaking in and factory coatings or lubes placed on engine components.

Gen · 07-06-2012, 05:01 PM

Mine does it as well. Smells a bit like clutch

Rossman · 07-07-2012, 01:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ben_G

Like burning electrical wires?

This is what I feel I am smelling...will keep a nose out for it, I've only just got 48kms on the car so could be just some oils/etc from the factory burning off...

SprayedBigCube · 07-07-2012, 06:47 PM

That's exactly what mine smells like - burnt clutch.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gen

Mine does it as well. Smells a bit like clutch

Gen · 07-07-2012, 07:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SprayedBigCube

That's exactly what mine smells like - burnt clutch.

If all our clutches fail at 1200 miles, we'll know why.

The smell has gone away now, or at least, I can't smell it anymore.

RWD-boxer · 07-07-2012, 07:31 PM

I have the smell it's like nail polish remover

BMWDavid · 07-07-2012, 10:35 PM

I've noticed a reduction in the strength of the odor over the last couple of hundred miles. I'm at 1500 miles now and hardly notice the odor now.

Touge Monster · 07-07-2012, 10:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr. Mcoupe

Did you run over a plastic bag? Look under the car for any melted plastic. Of course, this smell would remain after the car is shut down/parked so I am probably wrong.

I was thinking the same thing. I had a plastic burning smell during break in on my FR-s smelled alittle too strong to be break in had it up on the lift the other day to do an oil change and sure enough melted plastic on the center pipe.

Lonewolf · 07-07-2012, 11:39 PM

Rotten egg smell is the catalytic converter. Many new cars give off strange odors in the first few hundred miles as everything is breaking in, things are burning off, and chemicals evaporate and dissipate...fairly normal.

***My favorite smell is the half-melted plastic bag stuck on the exhaust smell

Rossman · 07-08-2012, 10:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Touge Monster

and sure enough melted plastic on the center pipe.

What was the source of the plastic? Was it something from the car, or like, some plastic bag you "picked up" while driving?

Touge Monster · 07-08-2012, 03:41 PM

It was a plastic bag that stuck to the exhaust pipe it happens all the time out here in the city not uncommon to see a few cars a month coming into my dealership with platic bags burned onto the exhaust pipe.

Brimford · 07-08-2012, 03:51 PM

Never personally changed a clutch myself, but i was told when you order an after market clutch there is a residue you have to remove from the clutch that is on it from the factory before you install it. Its apparently to keep them from rusting? Either way i wonder if maybe all that residue maybe wasn't cleaned and could be producing the smell? Just a thought.

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