trevs Member 781 Member For: 17y 8m 12d Gender: Male Location: balmain Posted 21/10/11 10:32 PM Share Posted 21/10/11 10:32 PM (edited) hello pplanybody ever had a burning smell coming though the air vents only when the aircon or the heater is turned on everything still works and its been doing it for about a month or so and not all of the time the smell isnt coming from the engine bay and the fan motor is good as I checked that last weekendive noticed sometimes its slow to change from the face vents to the windscreen is it possible something has burnt how are the vents controlled solenoids ?opps forgot bf t standard soundcheers any help would be good Edited 21/10/11 10:40 PM by trevs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
234Fpv Donating Members 522 Member For: 13y 5m 24d Gender: Male Location: Yeppoon qld Posted 21/10/11 11:21 PM Share Posted 21/10/11 11:21 PM What kind of smell? Electrical, coolant? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Never had any say Panda I <3 Floods Silver Donating Members 11,198 Member For: 13y 5m 1d Gender: Male Location: South West QLD Posted 22/10/11 12:46 AM Share Posted 22/10/11 12:46 AM Got a cat stuck in there somewhere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tab Sucker Moderating Team 32,303 Member For: 20y 8m 8d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 22/10/11 04:39 AM Share Posted 22/10/11 04:39 AM Fresh, recirculate or both? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panda Eyes flame magnet Gold Donating Members 5,674 Member For: 16y 7m 16d Gender: Male Location: adelaide hills- 'race air' central Posted 22/10/11 12:47 PM Share Posted 22/10/11 12:47 PM auto or manual. my vents smoked when my btr sh*t itself.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crunk81us Donating Members 52 Member For: 13y 9m 23d Gender: Male Location: sunny qld (or stormy, floody, dusty, etc.) Posted 24/10/11 06:52 AM Share Posted 24/10/11 06:52 AM had this problem years ago.. do you park under trees? My system got clogged with gum leaves and would smoke at random times.. lucky it never actually caught fire lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevs Member 781 Member For: 17y 8m 12d Gender: Male Location: balmain Posted 24/10/11 10:57 AM Author Share Posted 24/10/11 10:57 AM (edited) ok been away from the pc for a few days thanks for the replys ppl(1) What kind of smell? Electrical, coolant? the smell is electrical for sure that's why I pulled the fan motor out first up thinking it was on the way out but it runs,looks and smells fine (2) Got a cat stuck in there somewhere? nope no cats in there lol (3) Fresh, recirculate or both? both that's the other reason I was asking about how the car redirects the air from ,face,floor,windscreen and the like(4) auto or manual. my vents smoked when my btr sh*t itself.... the car has a zf auto and I only had the oil changed last week the smells been around for at least two months it still smells with new oil and although the old oil was dirty it didnt have any crap floating around in it (5) had this problem years ago.. do you park under trees? My system got clogged with gum leaves and would smoke at random times.. lucky it never actually caught fire lol funny you say this as the cars always parked under trees but the smell isnt of leaves I wonder the leaves may have got stuck in somewhere else besides the fan causing something to jam causing the electrical buring smell some other info I forgot to add is of late the auto head lights dont always work nor does the keyless entry ive checked the bcm and it looks fine nothing buring in there all the connections look good no hot pins or melted plugs and no blown fuses whats got me stuffed is it wont smell for a week then it stinks of buring everyday for a week besides taking out the dash I dont really see any other options as ive looked over everything you can check with the dash in and im guessing dash removel is a major pain in the ass cheers trev Edited 24/10/11 11:11 AM by trevs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crunk81us Donating Members 52 Member For: 13y 9m 23d Gender: Male Location: sunny qld (or stormy, floody, dusty, etc.) Posted 28/10/11 11:28 PM Share Posted 28/10/11 11:28 PM is it insured? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dillz Three pedals are better then two.. Donating Members 15,637 Member For: 17y 7m 7d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 29/10/11 12:26 AM Share Posted 29/10/11 12:26 AM Recently I've noticed vapor seems to come out of mine every now and then, what could that be? You can see it in the sunlight but it's only for a second or so and has no smell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buf-Phoon loitering with intent Lifetime Members 13,318 Member For: 21y 4m 14d Gender: Male Location: Zombie Birdhouse Posted 29/10/11 01:08 AM Share Posted 29/10/11 01:08 AM normal mate ,cool air meets humidity 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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