strange smell from Freelander!

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My friend has a Freelander 1.8 petrol (2005) and it has developed an odd smell which tends to occur during motorway use. It smells like burning rubber or a "fishy smell". He says it seems to be after the underside was washed in an automatic car wash, but the smell has persisted for weeks now. I've had a look round and underneath but can't see anything. does anybody have any ideas as to what it could be?
 
lightning said:
My friend has a Freelander 1.8 petrol (2005) and it has developed an odd smell which tends to occur during motorway use. It smells like burning rubber or a "fishy smell". He says it seems to be after the underside was washed in an automatic car wash, but the smell has persisted for weeks now. I've had a look round and underneath but can't see anything. does anybody have any ideas as to what it could be?
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Coolant getting into the cabin would be my guess. Heater matrix on the way out or connections to it.
 
With earlier post a burning (slipping) friction lining on clutch plate will produce a strange smell - a bit like overheated brakes - and takes forever to go away too.

Could it also be a brake binding?
 
we used to get a horrible smell of something rotten, noticed it more when reversing.

ever since i changed the clutch cylinder it seems to have gone, also we have a thing on the gearstick which i think is used for reversing uphill
 
it's got a picture of a car on an incline (car is facing downhill), and next to that is an upward facing arrow with an 'R' above it

and it's not like a switch as such, rocker switch, it's a sort of trigger which you pull in and the gator pulls down into position, then a green light comes on in the dash
 
Mr Anderson said:
it's got a picture of a car on an incline (car is facing downhill), and next to that is an upward facing arrow with an 'R' above it

and it's not like a switch as such, rocker switch, it's a sort of trigger which you pull in and the gator pulls down into position, then a green light comes on in the dash
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........then yer in hill descent mode!! ;)........
 
Mr Anderson said:
it's got a picture of a car on an incline (car is facing downhill), and next to that is an upward facing arrow with an 'R' above it

and it's not like a switch as such, rocker switch, it's a sort of trigger which you pull in and the gator pulls down into position, then a green light comes on in the dash
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It means that the hill is too steep - and yu need to select Reverse.
 
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