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Old 05-13-2002, 11:50 PM   #1
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Question Rotten egg smell!!!!

My car has this strange and stinky rotten egg smell!!! I know some types of gas and our cat converters have something to do with this but this is bad!!!! What do you guys think it is??? Smells like someone farting all of the time!!!..Yuck!!!
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Old 05-14-2002, 12:02 AM   #2
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<checks his pants> "Nope not me...."
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Old 05-14-2002, 12:46 AM   #3
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do you have an exhaust? Im having the some problem but I have a BMP exhaust that removes one of the cats. I thought that problem was going away but there it was again today after a nice romp with a z28 on the way to work. Im starting to get worried.
I glad its not just me
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Old 05-14-2002, 12:49 AM   #4
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yuck im getting that rotten egg smell infrequently too

switched around gas too

and more importantly sometimes when i start up (cold engine) i get hesitation then a surge (from 0ish mph) bleh i was told not to worry aobut that however
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Old 05-14-2002, 12:59 AM   #5
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by your own admissions,that would be your emissions. My check engine light light has been on for three weeks. I'm waiting for the dealer to tell me that they got my third catalytic converter. Waiting to see how long it takes to chew this one up. But the dealer does'nt seem to want to find the actual problem so i'll just let them give me another catalytic conver for free.
No they are not free, but they are under warranty for 7 years. I figure at this rate i should go through about ten of them.
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Old 05-14-2002, 02:50 AM   #6
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A rotten egg smell can be produced from your car running really rich, also whenever I blow an O2 sensor my exhaust really stinks until I get the O2 sensor replaced.

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Old 05-14-2002, 03:05 AM   #7
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the rotten egg smell is caused by the sulfur in the gas and running super rich....nothing u can do about it...live with it.

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Old 05-14-2002, 06:05 AM   #8
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get a catless exhaust if you don't like the rotten egg smell... then the car just smells like an old truck ALL the time
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Old 05-14-2002, 08:20 AM   #9
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You might want to have your o2 sensors checked.....
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Old 05-14-2002, 11:24 AM   #10
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I hope it isn't my O2 sensor..I only have 3500 miles on the car!!!!! It's coming up for my 3750 service, I'll see what they think. They'll probably jerk me around...a-holes at Hatfield!!!! I heard it was the gas but I never had this problem with my POS Neon...lol..Of course I don't think it had 3 cat-converters either...lol..
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