Burning Smell??

caneman88 · 10-27-2009, 10:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Z-WHIZ

Hey guys,

The other day I was stopped at a stop sign and upon starting again, I somehow forgot that the car was still in 3rd gear and I accidentally revved to like 5500 rpm's before realizing this and shifting back to first. Shortly afterwards, I smelled a kind of burnt plastic/rubber smell coming from the engine. Has anyone else experienced this/ know what it could be? I have about 800 miles on my car and it is a 6MT.

Thanks

It's some kind of engine preservative that Nissan puts on to prevent rust when shipping across the pacific it goes away after about 1500 miles or so.
I garage my car and when I got it thought the same thing it is a weird odor i have about 12000 miles smell is long gone

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