Smelly CQ

[Kneale Brownson]

You sure this isn't the odor from the evaporator box, where it's probably
been moist all summer and now houses some dead leaves?   I've heard that
odor described as all sorts of other stinks, but I don't recall one of them
being smokey.  There's supposed to be some sort of treatment that cleans
out the nooks and crannies of the evaporator box/heater core box and does
away with all the odors.


At 10:15 AM 11/2/2006 -0700, John Cassidy wrote:
>Greetings!
>
>Has anyone ever had suspicious smells in a Coupe Quattro?  Patient is a
>late build with 140 kmi.  We've been trying to locate the cause for
>months.  Smells like smoke, but not really like oil, not anitfreeze, and
>not even exhaust smoke, to my old car nose anyway.  It's at its worst at
>idle with the climate control on heat, A/C or defrost.  I cannot find
>any noticable fluid leaks, and the exhaust appears tight.
>
>My mechanic (really good guy) found an oil leak at the back of the valve
>cover, so he steam cleaned it and repace the VC gasket, but to no avail?
>It's going to the muffler shop tomorrow for an inspection.  In the mean
>time, if anyone has a BTDT, I'm all ears!