Is my car on fire?!?!?!?!?!

[sweetEA]

hey drove my car 2day and after about half an hour there is this burning smell throu the air vents (i have no air con) i check the obious signs for electrical burning but no luck. The guy who owned it b4 me was a smoker but havent had this before and have had the car for 3 weeks????

[tufLTD]

Originally Posted by sweetEA

hey drove my car 2day and after about half an hour there is this burning smell throu the air vents (i have no air con) i check the obious signs for electrical burning but no luck. The guy who owned it b4 me was a smoker but havent had this before and have had the car for 3 weeks????

Check for oil leaking on to the exhaust cat convertor, maybe from the power steering or down from the rocker cover. Also check your brakes for tight calipers holding the pads on, a very common problem on E-series.

[Laminge]

Originally Posted by sweetEA

hey drove my car 2day and after about half an hour there is this burning smell throu the air vents (i have no air con) i check the obious signs for electrical burning but no luck. The guy who owned it b4 me was a smoker but havent had this before and have had the car for 3 weeks????

SMS posts really ing_sm me,

today
through
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before

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[RG]

Originally Posted by Laminge

SMS posts really ing_sm me,

today
through
obvious
before

:

Well said, I say ban SMS posts completely.

[Jason[98.EL]]

is the car parked under a tree

i had this happen to my old ea a while back

found that the tree that i was parking under was letting the leaves fall into the vents

when i put the heater on for a short time the smoke and smell was bad

i had to pull the kick trim of on the passenger side and reach into the vents as best i could

it still did it after doing this but not as bad

jason

[heckaz performance]

I did some welding once near the pedal box and a lot of smoke started coming out of the vents. It tuned out the underlay was on fire, and I could harly pull it out as quick as it burned. Geeze it looked cool.
But no wonder they take the carpets out for racing, that sh%ts fammable as.

[vanessa0305]

Also check your powersteering fluid, I found my rack leaking onto the cat and making nasty burning smell.

[RG]

Also check your brake master cylinder. Mines leaking fluid and it's dripping down off the body onto the exhaust. And before anyone says anything it's booked in to be fixed on wednesday.

[sweetEA]

sorry about the SMS post guys i guess we youngsters are just lazy :evil3:

[STOKEB]

Check your powersterring belt, the adjustment pully might be jaming up and casuing the belt to burn make sure the pully is still in good condition and the bearings havent ИИИИed up. I had this wired buring smell in my car and it was the pully it screwed up and melted the belt.......

[santoitaliano]

to answer your question:

no the car isnt on fire, there are the dominant symptoms of flames missing...

most likely something else making a burning smell..