My car smells like it is cooking steaks
12-03-2010, 05:10 PM
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My car smells like it is cooking steaks
This is an odd one. Last couple of nights after my strong uphill run home I've been smelling steaks cooking when I got out to check the mail. Hmm, wonder what neighbor is bar-b-queing? Strong smell in the garage too, they must really be cooking it up.
Well, it's not my neighbors, it's my car! Smells like she's cooking meat. I haven't run over any small animals that I am aware of (once on a car with more clearance, scraped over a dead fawn in the middle of the road, picked up some fur and skin on an exhaust flange, but that smelt like burning hair more than cooking meat).
I can't see anything under the car, the smell seems to be coming from the rear half of the car. The engine compartment does not smell at all (well, not different from what it should smell like when it is hot). The car is garaged every night, so I don't think a member of the rodentia family would have climbed up into the exhaust and died, but who knows.
Any ideas?
Well, it's not my neighbors, it's my car! Smells like she's cooking meat. I haven't run over any small animals that I am aware of (once on a car with more clearance, scraped over a dead fawn in the middle of the road, picked up some fur and skin on an exhaust flange, but that smelt like burning hair more than cooking meat).
I can't see anything under the car, the smell seems to be coming from the rear half of the car. The engine compartment does not smell at all (well, not different from what it should smell like when it is hot). The car is garaged every night, so I don't think a member of the rodentia family would have climbed up into the exhaust and died, but who knows.
Any ideas?
12-03-2010, 05:21 PM
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This is an odd one. Last couple of nights after my strong uphill run home I've been smelling steaks cooking when I got out to check the mail. Hmm, wonder what neighbor is bar-b-queing? Strong smell in the garage too, they must really be cooking it up.
Well, it's not my neighbors, it's my car! Smells like she's cooking meat. I haven't run over any small animals that I am aware of (once on a car with more clearance, scraped over a dead fawn in the middle of the road, picked up some fur and skin on an exhaust flange, but that smelt like burning hair more than cooking meat).
I can't see anything under the car, the smell seems to be coming from the rear half of the car. The engine compartment does not smell at all (well, not different from what it should smell like when it is hot). The car is garaged every night, so I don't think a member of the rodentia family would have climbed up into the exhaust and died, but who knows.
Any ideas?
Well, it's not my neighbors, it's my car! Smells like she's cooking meat. I haven't run over any small animals that I am aware of (once on a car with more clearance, scraped over a dead fawn in the middle of the road, picked up some fur and skin on an exhaust flange, but that smelt like burning hair more than cooking meat).
I can't see anything under the car, the smell seems to be coming from the rear half of the car. The engine compartment does not smell at all (well, not different from what it should smell like when it is hot). The car is garaged every night, so I don't think a member of the rodentia family would have climbed up into the exhaust and died, but who knows.
Any ideas?
12-03-2010, 05:22 PM
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Repeat after me. "The fan resistor relay is not a George Foreman Grill."
12-03-2010, 05:24 PM
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I've not been driving mine since the first weekend in Nov due to about the same thing. Have not actually looked at it to find out what it is, but figure it's not a good thing so it just gets started up every couple of days to move it around.
Wish I could help you, just found this funny because that is exactly what mine has been smelling like.
Wish I could help you, just found this funny because that is exactly what mine has been smelling like.
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12-03-2010, 05:35 PM
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Fan resistor relay - wouldn't the smell be coming from the engine compartment then? I'll have to find this relay area and look. So maybe a mouse. Hell, with all the snow I've had so early this year it might make sense one (or a family) have sought refuge in the garage. The cat that I used to have sleep in the garage has passed - what's the saying? When the cats away....
12-03-2010, 05:38 PM
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Just through the vents.
My daughter called a few weeks ago from the side of the road near Roanoke VA.
Cockpit completely full of smoke.
Well, the whole plenum ended up being one big mouse nest. Lucky it didn't flame up. Found later, there was enough material in there to light the plastic ducts and burn the car down.
https://rennlist.com/forums/928-foru...got-smoke.html
Cleaned another car for a local shop last week. It was packed full.
My daughter called a few weeks ago from the side of the road near Roanoke VA.
Cockpit completely full of smoke.
Well, the whole plenum ended up being one big mouse nest. Lucky it didn't flame up. Found later, there was enough material in there to light the plastic ducts and burn the car down.
https://rennlist.com/forums/928-foru...got-smoke.html
Cleaned another car for a local shop last week. It was packed full.
12-03-2010, 05:58 PM
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The smell is only outside the car, nothing inside. And not from the front. Guess I'll have to climb under and see what parked itself on top of my catalytics or further back. Seems to me cooking mice would smell more like burning hair. This is bonafide filet mignons (or new yorks, your preference).
