Had a nice long drive the other day and decided to stop in Chinatown to stock up on some instant noodles. I parked the car and started to walk away from the car and did the ritual turn around look when I noticed a really bad smell and then to my horror, I saw white smoke coming from the front bottom of the Zed.

I freaked out and opened up the hood swearing to myself that a sports car shouldn't be smoking after only a half hour of spirited driving. Couldn't locate the smell and the smoke in the hood, so I looked under the car.

That's when I saw that a thin plastic bag was melted onto my exhaust. I felt instant relief right away. I tried to take off as much of the plastic bag as I could but of course there are some plastic layers that I can't get off. It's been two days now and that aweful plastic smell is still there. Is there anything else I can do other then just drive until it burns all the way off?

Thanks.

 

Take it through a touchless car wash?

 

That happened to me a while back ago & I freaked out as well. I smelled this horrible burning smell everytime I opened my door & I later found out it was a plastic bag that got caught on my Y-Pipe. You prett much have two choices:

(1) Let it eventually burn off naturally which may take a few weeks.
(2) Put it on a lift & melt it off with a heatgun.

 

Had a plastic bag get tangled up in my front passenger wheel/rotor once. It came out from under a truck in front of me, no time to react. I didn't see it in my rearview so I knew it was hung up somewhere, just didn't think there. By the time I got home it had melted to hell. A good hours worth of work to remove that melted glob...what a smell.

 

I got what looked like a dry cleaner bag melted to the driveshaft on my Jeep. I scraped off as much as I could but the rest stank for several weeks.

 

lol ummm... strange thread.

 

Very strange! I would think a plastic bag would fly away.

 

This is a burning hot exhaust we are talking about. Once the plastic bag touches the exhaust pipes, the surface of the plastic bag will melt and stick onto the hot exhaust pipe.

 

i remember a thread like a week ago where a plastic bag broke some guys LSD he said

 

Wow the irony.

Check my story out.

https://my350z.com/forum/maintenance-and-repair/216766-paper-bag-lsd-2000-a.html

Be thankful your ordeal didn't end up with you sporting a pimpalicious Ford Taurus and a bill from the nissan dealership for $2K.

 

"the suck"

LOL

Maybe a wire scratcher brush can remove the old plastic.

 

I've seen this on a Grand Am before....Just have to wait it out as far as I know. Try to pull what you can off the exhaust, but in time it will burn off

 

Same thing happened to me a few months ago. Also, recently I ran over a plastic quart-bottle of motor oil. Unfortunately, it was full (cap on) and it squrited underneath my Z.

 

Think that smells bad? Try running over a deer carcass and having its remains smeared down your entire exhaust pipe.

THAT smells.

 

Had the plastic bag stuck to the exhaust on my maxima and smell lasted for weeks.

Also had a rabbit i hit get on top of my cat converter. Horrible!

 

Same thing happened to me! I was driving and this plastic bag comes flying on my lane and goes under. I look back to see if the bag went under the car but it didnt. I pulled in the side street and i managed to remove the plastic bag before it could get any worse. Their were some plastic left but i managed to remove it.