alright i have no clue what the hell is wrong with my car. It runs ok boost is fine. I drove it in a snow storm, I got stuck in it. Idk if its just dirty water that has wound in in the FMIC or if i screwed sometin up.:doh: It has funky smell in the front and back around the turbo like something is burning. Also on the WG the it looks like you were to of held a torch to it. The color is all faded and ashy looken. its right on the bend were it goes underneath the heat sheald. I am completly stock. Any ideas would or answers would help. Thanks
hum.....sounds like you're not getting enough water or oil into the turbo assembly. did a cooling line pop off? what coolant are you using? check all your fittings too.......
idk i really dont mess with my car. I work and go to school all day of every day. I just noticed a burning plastic smell comming through the vents and could then I poped the hood and smelled it really bad. is there a seperate coolent for the turbo that I wasn't a were of? I'm a dumbass sorry for the inconvience.
the turbo uses the car's coolant, it's a water and oil cooled turbo. bruning plastic smell huh.....can you see anything that looks like it's melting? sorry for being so obvious, but it's best to start with the easy solutions first then go from there. check in the engine bay for anything that's plastic. the vents at the top, sensors, coolant lines leaking onto plastic pieces, whatever you can find and see if there's evidence of melting.
Jeff I really like what u have done to ur car. is that vinyle or paint on the hood? I might have to do the opposite, My car is black and go with red. My engine coolent is fine. No leaks or anything, level is fine. I dont see anything melted. I think it has something to do with the amount of the water that got into the car. It had what looked like a beard of snow on it. It was fine the next day I drove it to town and it just smelled like something hot or was burning. I know how Chrystler is with electrical issues. could that be it?
The stripes are vinyl. Thanks for the compliments:beer: And yes, there probably are electrical issues. I had a ground wire corrode away on me, so it caused a smaller ground to get overloaded and melt. It smelled like plastic burning....
you wouldnt be mad then If I got those in red then? i have the front air dam sticker already. But I hope thats it. I drove it today and didn't smell anything. I'm about to just say F**k it and it will show its self eventually. I prolly will have to replace what ever it is anyway.
Got stuck? You didn't completely wedge the front end into a snow bank did you? Like where no air could get to the radiator and/or under the car?
No my bad. I met I stuck in it. Like it caught me off gard and when I was driving home I ran into it. Its not smelling funny any more so IDK. it will show it self entually. It just pisses me off because I baby it all the time and take care of it and I screw up once get caught out in a snow storm and it starts acting funny. But Idk it might be ok.
Some people get mad if you set your car up like theirs. I just want the hood stripe not top and down the rear. You think just the hood would look good?
It's sounding like something got on something hot and melted, and gradually burned off. Might be worth looking around to find it in case it's something important or something that should be taken care of. Last summer I couldn't avoid a large white plastic garbage bag that was blowing across the road. Naturally it plastered itself to the muffler. I could smell it when I stopped. It looked like I had the muffler plastic coated. Drove it like that for a day or two and the plastic became sort of harder to where I could peel it right off.
I wouldn't be mad if you put stripes on your car...cause I'm sure I'm not the first one to do it either. Now, I'm sure the red on black would look pretty good, but I'm not sure about it just being on the hood...I guess I would have to see it to determine. But, what it comes down to is how YOU think it would look.
I took it to town and paid alot of attention to it. Its runs perfect, just got a whiff of it comming off the FMIC. do you think some dirty snow got in it or anything like that? Were did you get that vinyle jeff?
I couldn't tell you even if my life depended on it. I got them like three years ago.... I bought them from some company that was advertising on e-bay.
Ok i talked to a mechanic and he agreed. It smells like clutch. Wouldnt my clutch be slipping if it was going out? It feels the same Idk. I have 40K on it. A woman drove it before me, and Idk how well of driver she was so.... maybe?
Sure. If you slip the hell out of a clutch all the time you can burn it up in a very short amount of time. Do they even make mechanical clutch linkages any more? The hydraulic ones are self adjusting but with the mechnanical ones you could tell just what your clutch condition was by the pedal level on engage/disengage. With this new fangled crap you have no idea what's going on:towel:
