Car Smells Like Burnt Rubber And Smoking

If there s an oil leak in the vehicle and it drops on a hot part of the engine it can produce a burning smell which can be easily mistaken for burning rubber.

Car smells like burnt rubber and smoking.

I m sure you d recognize a smell of a rubber so i have to guess it is brake shoe pad most likely hand brake cable or shoe or slave cylinder issue depends on a car model. A fault in the electrical system of your car or truck can often present as a sudden burning rubber smell. Try avoiding driving over garbage to avoid this scenario. Many times burning smell from car may come from the clutch problem.

That may heat up and release the smell of burning rubber. There are plastic parts in the heater the fan and other electronic devices fit into the car. If the rubber burns you wouldn t say possibly. The odor itself will typically drift in through the ac ducts and it may not last for too long as the burnt fuse doesn t make a continuous smells like some of the other problems on this list.

So you can recognize this. You cannot take this lightly at all because it could start a fire in the car. Unless you have 1000 hp engine. It happens whenever you shift gears and the smell is usually similar to that of a burning newspaper or the burning rubber smell from car.

The car may have accidentally picked up pieces of garbage like plastic packets etc. The answer to why you may sense a burning rubber smell in your car and not some other type of smell is because there are lots of rubber components rubber hoses and other things made out of hard rubber which may be coming into contact with extreme heat which is why your car may smell like burning rubber.