I would check a couple of things, is there an issue with the ACC/heater unit within the car. The other thing is that have you checked your cabin filter lately? This is located in the fish tank on the passenger's side? If you haven't changed it, could be filled and create all sorts of smells.

Beyond the two stated, there is a blower motor near the cabin filter, and various sensors in the engine bay.

The off chance, does your catalytic converter or turbo glow red?

 

Hmm. I havent driven my car in awhile, I do recall a smell at one point though and my turbo glows red pretty much all the time. how would those two things be related?

 

yeah man actually my AC doesn't work for crap but my heat works good. And sorry but i have no clue what the cabin filter, and where is the fish tank? sorry i have no idea.

 

The following link http://www.saab9000.com/procedures/ventilation/blower/blower.php shows the fish tank aka aquarium or false bulkhead. The cabin filter is behind the skinny panel in the 4th picture down. This procedure outlines the cabin blower motor and essentially the heater core replacement steps.

 

wow dude, ur always bringing up topics that i've had problems with, but haven't posted on yet! lol. i get this sometimes, too, mostly when the heat is on full, and i find it goes away if i turn it off. thanks oliver (or w/e) for the suggestions, i'll have to check em out too!

 

Alright thanks for the link. This Dosen't seem to difficult to do. But the smell is starting to get worse and worse, so i'll need to do this soon. I'll keep you guys posted. Yeah and my car has a ton of problems svenska, so im slowly trying to fix them all 1 by 1

 

i hear that...

 

Alright guys i just cleaned my cabin filter today, man was it dirty, i shook it off once and about a pound of crap flung off it. So now its all clean and happy. So far no more terrible smells, so hopefully it stays this way. Thanks for the help guys!

 

Spend the $20 and get a brand new one!

 

Yeah thats a good idea, DO i just pick one up from advanced auto?

 

ADVANCE auto...no d...sorry pet peeve

 

Either way, they should at least be able to get one.

 

eeuro, dealer, etc will have one. I highly doubt a local auto parts place would.

 

I might have found an alternate reason to my bad smell. My CD player in my car just started coming on and off randomly in my car as i was driving yesterday and the day before. So today i pulled out the whole player and everything was connected fine. Then i took a look in my fuse box. and my Fuse for the radio i think # 19 was literally melted inside and about half of it was broken off. I suppose this is why my radio is acting like it's not getting enough power. And this could of also of caused that terrible burning smell. But any ideas on how to fix the melted/ruined fuse?

 

If its an interior smell, cut the top of a box of Bi carb soda and leave it in your car overnight.Any additional moisture and what usually carries the smell will be absorbed.If it is really bad and lots of moisture you will see a change in the powder.

Then maybe lay off the mexican food too :lol:

 

Then maybe lay off the mexican food too :lol:

haha yup, that should help too! lol

 

I'm pretty sure i found the main smell cause. Theres 2 radio fuzes in my car. well the main fuse that was #19 got burnt up and melted, and also my other radio fuse was burnt up. So my theory is that the 2nd radio fuse died out and the 1st radio fuse was doing all the work so it overloaded and burnt the fuse, it literally burnt and the fuse that was in there melted inside of it and was broken in two. That can explain why my radio last week was acting like there was no power getting to it and it kept turning on and off. So i just put new fuses in the 2 radio slots and the radio works fine. I'm supposing the terrible burnt smell was the fuse burning as i was driving?

 

if that's the case, you may want to try a different size fuse, since fuses are supposed to blow instead of melt...that's why they're there, to cut off all power if something is wrong. just a suggestion?

 

Yes but isn't size 15 fuse only allowed for the radio? or can you use bigger fuse sizes

 

not sure, just didn't quite sound right to me. perhaps something is deeper that is causing the fuse not to blow like it should.

 

I had the same problem with my Saab, but the wiring that goes to the CD player caught fire. So, I pulled the fuse. Be careful; my car almost burnt.