So I smelled this plasticy-burning smell the other day...

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So I smelled this plasticy-burning smell the other day...

August 15, 2005, 08:54:09 PM

..and I noticed I could only smell it next to the door on the driver's side. I dismissed it as probably nothing. Next day I noticed I could smell it again, and I was thinking, what the hell is that? Look under my car and there's a plastic bag caught and partially melted on my exhaust :disappoin Now I'm gonna have that smell for a long time unless I chip that off my pipes. Dangit!

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Reply #1 – August 15, 2005, 09:20:25 PM

ha ha, sorry had too. :D

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Reply #2 – August 16, 2005, 07:00:23 AM

sucks... that smell.. not good.. not good at all.

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Reply #3 – August 16, 2005, 12:05:12 PM

Only one thing to do....

Road trip!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Reply #4 – August 16, 2005, 01:17:12 PM

Couldn't you burn the rest of it off with a lighter or something?

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Reply #5 – August 16, 2005, 07:04:01 PM

i had a simular problem but not a plastic bag insted i had wdged a plastic milk jug under there and i had to go down the bumpiest road i could find to dislodge it. i did but i still could smell the plastic burning.

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Reply #6 – August 16, 2005, 10:38:53 PM

could be worse, i was driving down the road one night and hit a peice of road kill that got stuck inbetween the tranny and the cats :flame: and i didn't know it got stuck till i got home. to make matters worse when i looked under the car to find out what the h*ll

the horrid, rancid smell was ther was what was left of a po' cats(skunk to those of you who aren't countrified)fce looking back at me! :wtf: :barf: :eek: you don't even want to know what it took to get the d*mb thing out of there! :barf: :barf: :barf: :barf: my car smelled for months every time the cats got warm. :barf: :barf: :barf: :barf: (yes i used tomatoe juice on the afected parts many many many times. before anyone can ask.)

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Reply #7 – August 17, 2005, 12:12:01 AM

Well roadkill does a number. I ran over the neck of a deer that was thrown into my lane by a semi. When i did the meat and hair stuck to the control arms and rear end. Then i split a coolant hose, my car still smells like antifreeze, especially when i turn on the vent.

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Reply #8 – August 17, 2005, 01:03:16 PM

Well consdering I don't want my car to catch fire I'd rather chip it off than burn it off. It also sounds like I've got something smacking against my driveshaft, which may be part of that bag....

Oh yeah, I went over some roadkill last night that smacked the bottom of my car but fortunately didn't get stuck. I always worry about that because there's so many big, dead possums and groundhogs that end up dead in the road.

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Reply #9 – August 17, 2005, 01:18:26 PM

the thread stinks

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Reply #10 – August 17, 2005, 01:20:24 PM

Your car isn't going to catch on fire if you take a lighter to your exhaust pipe. :rolleyes:

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Reply #11 – August 17, 2005, 02:48:04 PM

Well there is a lot of OIL on the underside of my car so I don't really want to take any chances.

:rolleyes:

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Reply #12 – August 17, 2005, 09:57:04 PM

OK I'm rethinking what I said...I guess having a lot of oil on the underside of my car doesn't really make it a fire hazard (if it was it woulda gone up in flames a long time ago).

HOWEVER...I think that if I tried to get what was left of that bag off my pipe with a lighter, it would explode before I even made much of a "dent" in the plastic.

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Reply #13 – August 18, 2005, 10:54:10 AM

Well there you go. Problem solved! You'd fix the plastic problem and the oil leak all at the same time!

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Reply #14 – August 19, 2005, 12:56:19 PM

Well I ended up taking a propane torch to the plastic. Didn't really do anything except turn it black, it doesn't really wanna come off.

The oil is from my old engine...it had several oil leaks so the entire underside of the car is coated with oil pretty much. Who needs undercoating?