quick question about burning smell

by **bksolara** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 3:21 pm

im a newbie to owning cars we recently got hit with snow in new york and i got my baby out of the snow and ive noticed a burning smell comming from the tires i was told that spinning your tires forcefully can wear your transmission out but my question is the burn smell comming rom the tires or the transmission?

by **DrLove** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 3:35 pm

Tires... you guys in NY dont have snow very often, here its 6 months of that white crap... hehe My Solara was always trap in the snow so I smell it few times..my new car with new winter tires havent been trap yet..

by **bksolara** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 3:38 pm

thank you, how would one know if he has a bad transmissin or not like what are the signs?

by **Dawgz** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 3:51 pm

burning rubber has a very distinctive smell....you cant confuse it for anything else.

by **bksolara** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 3:57 pm

thank you dawgz

by **Midias** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 4:17 pm

DrLove wrote:Tires... you guys in NY dont have snow very often, here its 6 months of that white crap... hehe My Solara was always trap in the snow so I smell it few times..my new car with new winter tires havent been trap yet..

I have tires 6 months a year i my NY area

by **bksolara** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 4:43 pm

but i also had a strange burning smell comming through the vents of my car days after the first time i burn the rubber off my tires messing the snow, now where could that burning smell come from?

by **(K)** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 8:32 pm

Probably from your grill if you've been following alot of cars closely.
Snow and slush containing bits of worn tire, dirt, salt, etc. being kicked up from the cars in front of you then sticking to your nose and caking up.

Website · by **99BlackSandv6** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 1:21 am

The tire smell can stick around in the vents for a while. Easily a few days if there's enough. Did you so see any smoke from the tires? If not, then it probably isn't the tires leaving the smell.

by **bksolara** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 12:02 pm

oh yeah 99blacksandv6 my tires were smoking man like i was riding on fire lol thank you for the feed back cuase the smell lasted for awhile but its gone now

Website · by **99BlackSandv6** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 1:06 pm

Haha, yep. Been there, done that. Good times. :sweet:

by **dug320** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 5:45 pm

The only way you can smell a transmission problem is to pull the dipstick and smell the fluid. A burned smell is not good.

There is a memo on the auto transmissions and it involves rocking (repeated D then R cycle) in the snow.

The smell from burned rubber can linger. Give it time and it will go away.

quick question about burning smell

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