Brinkman Posted November 14, 2005 Report Posted November 14, 2005 This morning after a fairly heavy frost and running the engine on idle after about 2 minutes I turned on the aircon [to cold] to help demist the screen etc.Soon I could smell a rubber/plastic burning smell and blue smoke was appearing under chassis just fore of the nearside rear wheel. I turned off the aircon and then the engine and waited, restarted the car 2 minutes later on heater blower only and the problem did not repeat. This pm on the journey home I switched on the aircon onarrival home and the problewm did not repeat. Any ideas what's going on here, possibly a fan/rotor frozen ?/is there something I should be checking out urgently? :) Quote
seatkid Posted November 14, 2005 Report Posted November 14, 2005 its the booster heater which burns diesel - when they are not behaving themselves they smoke and smell.....even when they are OK they still pong and smoke a bit. They only come on when its cold usually less than 5 deg ambient and cold engine and its job is to assist in raising the water temperature and heating. Do a search on "booster heater" - theres lots of info on this forum. Quote
Ogben Schmutzel Posted November 14, 2005 Report Posted November 14, 2005 Do a search on "auxilliary heater" - theres lots of info on this forum. .... and increasing .... rapidly!! Coldest winter for years, they are saying <_< :( Oggy. Quote
johnb80 Posted November 15, 2005 Report Posted November 15, 2005 And 'they' said it last year and the year before that and the year before that etc etc. Who are 'they' one wonders <_< Quote
Guest marcusheawood Posted November 15, 2005 Report Posted November 15, 2005 'they' are idiots! Will someone please tell me how 'they' know what this winter is going to be like when 'they' can't reliably tell me what the weather is going to do NEXT WEEK! <_< Quote
Goofygolfer Posted November 15, 2005 Report Posted November 15, 2005 percentages! they have got to be right eventually. Quote
tim-spam Posted November 15, 2005 Report Posted November 15, 2005 And presumably, if this winter is very cold, it will have been due to global warming, just like the comparatively warm winters we have had in the last few years. Quote
johnb80 Posted November 15, 2005 Report Posted November 15, 2005 Nah, it's all them rocket things that keep going up and all them phone wave things that travel through the air, they're microwaves so make more phonecalls the world gets warmer <_< Quote
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