burning smell (not wires)
05-04-2009, 12:21 PM
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burning smell (not wires) The past little while after I've gotten out of my 99 TA, I've noticed a burning smell. It doesn't smell like burning wires, but more like hot metal (sorry, it's hard to describe how it smells, but it's not an oil/fluid smell or wires). I don't see any smoke or anything. I thought it was my clutch (because that was bad), but I just replaced my clutch yesterday and when I got home I still smelled this burning.
Somebody suggested it might be a plugged catalytic converter that was giving the smell. Is that a possibility? Wouldn't I notice the performance of the engine change if a converter was plugged?
Any other suggestions on what it might be, or how I should go about diagnosing it?
Somebody suggested it might be a plugged catalytic converter that was giving the smell. Is that a possibility? Wouldn't I notice the performance of the engine change if a converter was plugged?
Any other suggestions on what it might be, or how I should go about diagnosing it?
05-05-2009, 08:39 PM
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could be the brakes? you may wanna check those, are you sure the clutch was replaced correctly? and i dont know much about cats but could always have a backpressure test done at a muffler shop pretty sure most do that for free and that could quickly eliminate that as a problem
