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Burning Candle Wax Smell
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Quantum Theory
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If you were burning candles in the vents, you do not need to worry... otherwise...
LOL, of course not. So are you implying it could be some major problem?
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Don't leave those squatters too long or they will get permanent rights to your cars air vents.
Quantum Theory
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I don't know. Could it possibly be burning plastic? I would be careful. A fire can engulf your car very quickly. Happened to a colleagues Jetta a few years back. He could just watch it burn...
Totempole
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Phew! What a relief! I had the same problem. I promptly blew out the candles in my air vents and within a few minutes the smell was gone. Thank you Quantum Theory!
Thankfully my candles are of the scented type. Removes the need for an air freshener. I'm a bit worried about the flame heat though, the plastic should be heat resistant?
Quantum Theory
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An old varsity friend of mine used to have an old Opel. The car would fill up with funny smelling smoke, while the windows were all closed. There was nothing wrong with the car...
Totempole
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Nah, my heater is broken, so I use candles in the vents to keep warm.
Grant
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Will never forget, many many many years back i was in durban, and landed up going to pietermaritzburg for a party.
Got fiercely trashed and got a lift back to durban with some angry lesbians in some outlandish car - was a landslip, like an old valiant or similar.
As we hit the highway, one of them fires up this doob, the girth & length of a torpedo. The thing does the rounds, a few times. Then another is fired up & does the circuit.
Well, the cato-ridge / camperdown area is often cloaked with thick mist (or fog - don't know which is which) during the early morning hours.
We slowly start entering the mist, it's freezing cold outside, but we are warm & toasty in the car. Doob No.3 is fired up - to much mirth & merriment !
Mist gets thicker so we have to go slower - no problem, we're all stoned out of the trees - no rush, but the mist is pretty hectic & the windscreen is a little misted up inside, so we land up slowing down some more.
Next thing some crazed lunatic goes flying by at an insane speed. The lesbii instantly start bristling with testosterone, hurling all manner of insults at the car.
Moments later another twat flies by at radical speed - clearly the 2 morons are racing down the freeway. Our windscreen wipers are working furiously but visibility is near zero - we are doing about 30 to 40Km/h.
Suddenly one of the "girls" needs to upchuck thanks to too much weed, alcohol or combination thereof. She grabs the window winder & violently winds the window down preparing to spew.
Like magic, all the smoke inside the car gets sucked out of the window - to reveal the most prefect weather conditions & visibility for kilometers ahead !!
Got fiercely trashed and got a lift back to durban with some angry lesbians in some outlandish car - was a landslip, like an old valiant or similar.
As we hit the highway, one of them fires up this doob, the girth & length of a torpedo. The thing does the rounds, a few times. Then another is fired up & does the circuit.
Well, the cato-ridge / camperdown area is often cloaked with thick mist (or fog - don't know which is which) during the early morning hours.
We slowly start entering the mist, it's freezing cold outside, but we are warm & toasty in the car. Doob No.3 is fired up - to much mirth & merriment !
Mist gets thicker so we have to go slower - no problem, we're all stoned out of the trees - no rush, but the mist is pretty hectic & the windscreen is a little misted up inside, so we land up slowing down some more.
Next thing some crazed lunatic goes flying by at an insane speed. The lesbii instantly start bristling with testosterone, hurling all manner of insults at the car.
Moments later another twat flies by at radical speed - clearly the 2 morons are racing down the freeway. Our windscreen wipers are working furiously but visibility is near zero - we are doing about 30 to 40Km/h.
Suddenly one of the "girls" needs to upchuck thanks to too much weed, alcohol or combination thereof. She grabs the window winder & violently winds the window down preparing to spew.
Like magic, all the smoke inside the car gets sucked out of the window - to reveal the most prefect weather conditions & visibility for kilometers ahead !!
grantza, your story is hilarious. I would really like to hear more about your good old days.
Back on topic, the burning candle wax smell is a piece of plastic that stuck to the exhaust. It is easy to spot now that is daylight. Guess it will just burn off in time.
Back on topic, the burning candle wax smell is a piece of plastic that stuck to the exhaust. It is easy to spot now that is daylight. Guess it will just burn off in time.
SlowInternet
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Indigogirl
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Rouxenator
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Have you recently parked anywhere that you don't normally park? Just asking cause I parked under a tree a few weeks ago and some leaves got into the cabin air intake. With the rains that followed they started to rot and it did smell funny. Cleaned it out and the smell was gone.
Sad end to a sad car.
Good thing you know about cars and were able to solve the problem. I have no idea what the cabin air intake is.
Last night on the way home, what I thought was a long strip of paper was probably a plastic strip. Thinking back, the smell started after driving over it as it was floating above the road surface. The plastic is now melted onto the exhaust.