Hi guyz,

Just want to ask did anyone encounter any weird smell like burning when you accelerate hard on your MCS?

 

How many miles on your car? I had a funky plasticky burning smell for the first few months after taking delivery, but it went away. My wife's MINI was the same way.

 

Did you eat any beans?

 

nearly 40k
i bought the car on 2004
any idea ??

 

not to scare you but thats what I smelled for a couple days before my trasmission went up. It smelled like melting plastic, not melting transmission.

 

I remember reading about this on NAM, and it was said to be the clutch "burning" a little bit under heavy acceleration.

 

That happens to me from time to time... but i havent been able to locate the source of the smell... i always check under the hood but everything looks normal... and after few thousand miles i am getting used to it i think

 

At first, I thought it was my tired. So I checked it after every hard acceleration and it wasn't the smell from the tired.

Anyone had solution on the smell??



Is that a signed my transmission will gone soon !?

 

i have an 07 and i smell something once in a while, but can't ever figure out if it really is coming from my car not someone elses. I'll have to pay more attn and see exactly what i'm doing when it happens.
Its kind of like something is burning, plastic or ??

 

very true, i get that smell too....kinda like plastic but it also seems like a tranny type smell that I smelled before when I used to have a Ford ProbeGT back in the day.... but just you guys, only smell it once in a while.
I hope we're all good....

 

It may the smell of $2000 burning, if it is your Clutch.

 

maybe you just ran over a plastic bag and it's melted to your exhaust.....might want to just peek underneath

 

i have an R56. i think it's the shipping grease on the hood. i got most of it off with WD 40 and it's not so noticeable. more noticeable when the sunroof is open.

 

couldbe your s/c belt slipping . or you could have some blow - bye coming back up the intake, into the air box and then to your nose .

 

i found out the problem
is actually my oil catch can, the poor construction of the pipe rumbling with the supercharge pulley belt when i was driving.

Thank god it is not my transmission or clutch .. :D!!!


THANKS GUYZ !!