cylon

A beer at Carlisle to the first person...who can tell me sonclusively what that odour we get from time to time in the C6.

I have seen numerous threads about it, but haven't seen a final answer. For me it is random. It smells like a mix of the sickly sweet smell from rad fluid, mixed with burning electrical wiring, and a dash of hot engine to boot.

Given that I can smell this with the top down on the vetter on the highway, it means there is a real location for the odour.

So, I will be at Carlisle and buy a beer for the first one who can me where this comes from. A second beer if you can tell me how to stop it.

thanks

KenHorse

Hmmm.. intermittent odors when sitting in the car.

Here in the states, we call that "breaking wind"

cclive

I would change the priority and give the FIRST beer to the guy who tells you how to stop it. Good luck and let us know!

dvilin

The odor I get from time to time is burning rubber, less right foot pressure seems to take care of it.

AORoads

it might be tire rubber. sometimes, after a long run, I'll put it in the garage, close the doors, and come back awhile later. that's what I smell, and if you put your nose close to the tire when hot, you might, too.

sorry, not going to be at carlisle this year.

C7-Beast

Could be clutch that your smelling. I get an odor of clutch every once and a while. Not when I'm beating on it either.

cylon

really? On the highway at 60 miles an hour too?

thanks for helping to narrow it down

norman

C7-Beast

Sometimes I will get a wiff of clutch on the highway, yes. I don't do a ton of highway driving though.

mpuzach

I'm sure that sarcasm will certainly encourage people here to try to help you.

Knob Jockey

Something lodged in the HVAC air filter perhaps?

Ingested any squirrels lately?

Been cooking any food on the exhaust manifolds? Heard that was a Canadian tradition.

Just trying to help.

AOVET

More than anything it is your catalitic coverter.

cylon

actually it wasn't meant to sarcastic, its the closest thing to what makes sense I have heard yet, sorry for any misinterpretations

it is a bit of a clutch smell, kind of sickly sweet, but still more sweet

cylon

we get the salmon to jumo right out of the rivers onto the BBQ, but no, it wasn't a manifold delight

cylon

really, hmmm, ok,

REVAK

Had a similar experience with my Z28, a piece of plastic tarp wrapped around the intermediate pipe and melted / fused onto it. The smell was as you described. Never could get enough of it off to stop the smell. I replaced the pipe. It was a good reason to get a Corsa cat back.......

Wass

I have owned a 2005 for 4.5 years and never smelled anything strange.

JUSTRITE

I have an 07 auto verte and get the same smell I asked the dealer about it but of course they couldn't smell it. It smells like burnt oil or aitifreeze. My wife has an 09 but no smell. Please just honest answers
Thanks for any help

LB001

The odor you are experiencing may be mold in the air conditioning system. If so, you can eliminate the odor by cleaning the cabin air filter and spraying it and the vents with lysol.
Sorry, not going to Carlisle.

DWRHODA

Should you drive over a green plastic bag ,and it touch your very hot exhaust pipe,it will melt onto it.
There after it will burn and give off noxious odors until it has been scraped off.
A thorough exam of exhaust is called for. Good luck

DW

CV-4606

Something doesn't smell right about this post.