ddcboyle Posted August 4, 2013 Posted August 4, 2013 Missus driving the car atm, and can smell fuel or oil smell. Shes booting the car, is it normal to smell this? I can normally smell something like this whilst car is warming up. Cats at blocked up at the moment, waiting for new ones, so ive put it down to that. But does smell of petrol with fans off Quote
Ekona Posted August 4, 2013 Posted August 4, 2013 Sorry, the cats are blocked and you're still driving it? Please tell me I've read that wrong. Quote
Jp606 Posted August 4, 2013 Posted August 4, 2013 Mine has a sort of burning smell when the car is warming up and I give it a little beans. Quote
nowhereboy Posted August 4, 2013 Posted August 4, 2013 Mine definitely has a mechanical sort of oil/petrol kinda smell when giving it some beans. Quote
OsakaBen Posted August 4, 2013 Posted August 4, 2013 I had this too. Make sure your dipstick is in all the way. Solved for me Quote
GT Driver Posted August 4, 2013 Posted August 4, 2013 Mine has a slight burning smell when giving it a hoot. After a bit of slow town driving, then hitting the dual carriageway at full blast you get the smell. It's not a continuous smell after every hard acceleration. Normally just the first one after tame driving. Quote
ddcboyle Posted August 4, 2013 Author Posted August 4, 2013 Dont really boot the car much so maybe thats wh y? Just flushing out or something. Ill check the dipstick Left cat has warning light but im just waiting for cats from tarmac Quote
Sam Mcgoo Posted August 4, 2013 Posted August 4, 2013 To be fair, Cat warning light could be nothing to worry about.... ......but if you suspect a blocked CAT I would not be driving the car let alone 'booting it'. If hot gasses cannot exit the engine freely it will end badly! Quote
Ekona Posted August 5, 2013 Posted August 5, 2013 My thinking exactly. Worse possible thing you can do is drive it! Quote
ddcboyle Posted August 5, 2013 Author Posted August 5, 2013 Ah didnt know it was that big a deal. Guess the car will be sitting in my carpark til I get new cats come on tarmac Quote
Ekona Posted August 5, 2013 Posted August 5, 2013 Remember the scene in Beverly Hills Cop, with the bananas in the exhaust pipe? Veeeeeeery bad. Quote
HaydnH Posted August 5, 2013 Posted August 5, 2013 After driving over a few Swiss passes I pulled in to a Cafe for a quick break... one of the older ladies walked over to me and said my car smells, I hope she was being literal rather than giving me a childish insult. Quote
georgerobertfreeman Posted August 6, 2013 Posted August 6, 2013 I recently had mine serviced. Prior to the service everytime I booted it I got an oily/ rubbery smell for a few seconds afterwards. I also had a set of new rear tyres fitted so my oily smell was cured by either one of the above. Quote
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