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Feb 29, 2008 | 05:08 PM

bluejays026

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Oil burning smell

i just changed my oil and drove around for about 70 miles and i could smell my oil burning. it smelt like old oil was still in the engine. does anyone know what this could be.

Feb 29, 2008 | 05:10 PM

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Did you spill it somewhere?

Feb 29, 2008 | 05:41 PM

bluejays026

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yeah but i wiped it up. i has been doing this for a while.

Mar 1, 2008 | 05:29 PM

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That is likely what you are smelling. The spilled oil slowly burning off of wherever you spilled it.

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