I dont know what it is..but almost everytime i get out of my tC there is like a faint burning smell. It's not the clutch because that smells terrible i know from when my friend burnt his clutch...STINKY!, it's more of a like brake smell...could it be from the brakes? I dont drive much either, i have had my car 11 months and only have 6600.

Any thoughts of what it could be?

 

i sometimes pick up a funny smell when i get out of my car. the first time i even popped the hood open to make sure everything was okay in there. i have no idea what it might be.

 

Yeah i mean it's sometimes there and it's sometimes not. OOOO WELL! i bet it's just the brakes or something.

 

I get this smell also but i only have had mine 2 days so im thinking its getting broken in i have 200 miles

 

It might be possibly that i am still breaking mine in? Since i dont drive far places whatsoever. I dunno, i guess nothing to worry about. I mean if it was the clutch you would know beacuse that smells god aweful.

 

Most cars' engines and transmissions are covered with an oil from the factory to help stop corrosion during shipment. It usually will burn off after 1000 miles or so.

 

Could be something in the air itself. I live in Houston and the chemical plants smell get stuck in the cars sometimes. I only really notice it when I get in my car...

 

Ummm but i have 6600 on mine. maybe they put a little to much on mine HA!

 

its probably your brakes.... tc's brakes do smell....

 

my brakes never smell unless i am slamming them on, racing or something. just smell around your wheels, see if any one in particular's got it. pop the hood. doubtful its there but you never know. just give it time, it should go away.

or take it to the dealership!

 

I am thinking so. HA!

 

Well i dont ride the brakes....maybe some of the tire spray got on them..but that would burn off quicker, i am not sure..if i get down there..you can smell it, sometimes you can smell it if you have the a/c it comes through the vents. It's not all the time either..just every now and then, it's very wierd. I guess i shouldnt worry about it.

By the way it's the same smell i smelt when i first bought the car, and drove it home.

 

I noticed a faint smell in my car...I had thrown a t-shirt in the back a couple of days earlier. It had fallen across the hump in the back floorboard. I picked up the t-shirt inadvertenly and noticed that it was extremely hot. If there is anything over that hump, check it out!

 

no..nothing over the hump. I dont keep anything in my car.

It has to be the brakes...like i said before it cannot be the clutch because that smell is terrible..and this smell isnt bad at all, it's just there. Maybe it's just the normal HOT smell of the tC engine? i dunno.

 

probably nothing to worry about

 

bingo i work for mitsubishi and they do this to all of their cars also. it'll all burn off eventually. it's just there so that the car still looks new while it's on the lot, no rust on the exhaust etc.

 

lay off the burritos man!

case closed!

 

ive got that smell too.

my friend told me its the collant cooling down the car?
hMmmMm ...
OR maybe its some other type of fluid?
dunno

 

Ummmm beats me HA!

 

HAAA!! no....sorry i have never ever flatulated in my tC.