Burning Rubber? - GreenHybrid

medicmike · #1 (**permalink**) 07-21-2007, 08:14 AM

For the last month, I've noticed an intermittent smell simillar to burning rubber when driving my HCH II. No oil leaks, and I don't smell it when I open the hood, just intermittently in the cabin. No obvious cause can be found. The trans fluid looks clean with no discoloration or burnt smell and the car only has ~20K miles on it in a year and a half. Any ideas as to what this might be before I inadvertently burn something important up?

mmrmnhrm · #2 (**permalink**) 07-21-2007, 09:42 AM

Have you had the DC battery cap recall looked into?

livvie · #3 (**permalink**) 07-21-2007, 09:50 AM

You are probably smelling the sulfur from the catalytic converter. This is a normal smell.

DougD · #4 (**permalink**) 07-22-2007, 03:16 PM

When'd'ya last change the cabin air filter?
--doug

medicmike · #5 (**permalink**) 07-22-2007, 06:49 PM

I had the DC cap done around 6 weeks ago. As for the air filter I haven't changed it yet. Perhaps that could be the cause? It seem to occur more at speed or acceleration.