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Old 06-07-2013, 04:28 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by 6spd View Post
Almost every car will do this. Especially cars that aren't run hard or that don't see high RPM's often. It's a sulfur smell caused by the chemical reactions inside the catalytic converter and the tremendous heat at high RPM's. Hope this helps.
When I bought my Santa Fe in 2003 (please don't hate on me), it used to smell like rotten eggs almost every day. After some heated discussions with the service manager, I was finally convinced that it was the additives in the gasoline (especially during the Cleveland winters). Once I tried different brands, the smell would be gone with some, but not others. It never threw a code, so I just learned to live with it.

The smell finally went away, but still comes and goes, depending on the gasoline used.
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