Follow Your Nose: Burning Odors

Did you burn the toast? Probably not, especially if you smell it in your car. It could be an electrical short circuit or the wire insulation.

Burning odors can indicate a variety of problems: Your car may be overheating, or there is an oil leak, or a temperature gauge may be broken.

The smell of oil burning may mean you have a leak in the engine block or exhaust manifold.