The last few weeks when I drive my '14 MT V6 home and park in the garage I notice a bad smell outside the car. (It smells metalic... like the parking brake was left on. The parking brake is not engaged! At least it shouldn't be, the handle is down.) There is no smoke so I don't think it is burning oil...

Anyone else notice this?

Thanks in advance for any insight or suggestions.

 

Maybe just smelling the hot cats.

 

I had this once with another car... it turned out that I picked up a plastic bag somewhere along the route and it was melting on the exhaust pipe... it could be something that simple.

Or...could it be that you're riding your clutch?

 

How many miles are on the car? When they are fairly new they have a pretty distinct smell after they get warmed up.

 

New car low miles=NORMAL!

 

2.5 years later, I STILL have this smell



Ps car has ~ 7k miles on her

 

Yeah, I'm always running over those too!

That's okay. Take a bath, it comes right off!

 

With 25K now on my 13', I still occasionally get that sulfur-like smell in the cabin when I step on it to pass someone, or to merge onto the highway. Is that the CATs still?!?

 

I smelled something very bad the other day.................I'm old you know

Sometimes the catts will produce a sulfer smell to the exhaust. It takes a couple thousand miles for all the packing and shipping oils to burn off of the parts used at the assembly plant.

 

Hahahaha ok that was good

 

are these short trips to taco bell?

 

Man, you put a lot of miles on your cars!!!!!.....only had 4856 on my 12 that I traded in...I have put a whopping 40 miles on my 14 so far in almost a month....but hope to put a few on today!!!

 

Thank you for all of the responses! The sulfur smell actually describes it really well. There are 4,300 miles on the car right now. The short trips are to and from work, I live a little under a mile from my office (Frequent starts and stops not the best for the engine, I know)

 

Oh man... You guys are the best. You make weird threads into winning threads. Hilarious.

 

Either your passengers are soiling themselves....

or...

What everyone else said