When I accelerate hard in first gear from a dead stop, there is a strong rubber burning odor that comes in the cockpit through my vents?

 

It could be that your vehicle's rate of acceleration exceeded the permissible coefficient of friction for two of its four contact patches? Either that or it could be your clutch slipping

 

Dear Bshen

Could it be that you had your cat converter removed for valve adjustments in the last months?

If so it could be a bit of oil that went over the catalyst converter, that burns slowly away as the cat gets hot. This burning oil can smell a bit like burnt rubber. You don't have to vorry about if it's the cat issue, it will go away as soon as every drop of oil is consumed in the cat converter.

Hope that's the problematic smell you got.

Byebye THOMAS

 

My bet is on the clutch. This is not necessarily something to worry about if it is the clutch. My last clutch did it when pulling away hard, as does my new clutch fitted February this year. The smell does indicate wear, but not that something is wrong...

Hope that makes sense, and that I am not just clutching at straws...(saw there was severe overuse of the word 'clutch'above so just had to use it again even though it involved one of the dumbest jokes ever to have been uttered on this board )