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OiOiOi
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Joined: November 13, 2004
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Location: Millersville, Maryland
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 Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 7:09 pm Post subject: I smell burning plastic |
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Lately when I've been driving my car I've smelt melting plastic very strongly, there isn't anything in the engine that looks melted and I'm possitive the emergency brake isn't on. What could it be?
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iowegian 
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Joined: February 16, 2005
Posts: 9964
Location: Somewhere between Dubuque and Keokuk
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| Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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That's just the smell that an old German car makes when it knows that
you are going to scrap it.  |
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glutamodo
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Joined: July 13, 2004
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Location: Douglas, WY
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Is this with or without the heater turned on? Sometimes I've seen a plastic wrapper get sucked into the engine and melt on the cylinder fins and make some odd smells. I've seen the plastic cage in early engine-to-body air ducts fall apart and start to melt before too. (around here, annually we get in the way of the migration of army cutworm "Miller" moths which will get into everythng. One of the worst smells from a VW heater came from my heater boxes being full of those things, ack!)
Lets see, you have a 67, right? There's not a lot of other stuff on this that I can think of that might cause a plasticky smell. A shorted wire might start out that way but would soon turn "crispy" then you'd have smoke. hmmm....
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type1
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Joined: December 18, 2004
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| Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Brake drags can smell that way too. If your car does not roll on a slight incline in neutral, you may have a brake drag. |
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TeamSpatula
Samba In The Rain
Joined: February 03, 2004
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Location: WNC
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When my light switch was going bad, it smelled that way for a couple days...one day smoke started coming up through the dash, and I found it to be pretty badly burned/melted...good thing I caught it before it got worse...definitely check through the electrical system, and make sure nothing is shorting out, no inappropriate touching, nothing melting or even hot, etc...
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OiOiOi
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Joined: November 13, 2004
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Location: Millersville, Maryland
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 5:42 am Post subject: |
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I'm not gonna part out my baby, that's the one thing I'm not even concidering
The electric system is a wreck, maybe thats it, thanks for the help.
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Ringo64
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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| My saturn always smelled like burning plastic !!! |
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