Burning rubber smell

[wickerman]

Recently was in a multi-storey car park in a queue in my A4 1.9tdi 2003 avant waiting most of time sitting on the clutch as the car was most of time on a ramp moving slowly up the car park. A bad smell is now coming from the car. It's been almost two days now and I can still smell it. It's does not seem to be coming from the engine I can only describe the smell like burning rubber. The tyres and brakes check out okay. I Have put it into the place I have bought it from. I've seen other threads on other forums mentioning that it could be the clutch. My clutch seems to function perfectly I've not noticed any slipping or change of any sort. Any ideas any one ?

[ini]

Most likely burning clutch smell, it can linger for days.

It wont affect your clutch operation.

[wickerman]

Is this usuall ? does it mean the clutch is soon to go wrong ?

[redadair]

I remember back in 1990 I owned a Daihatsu Charade Gtti which did 0-60 in 7 seconds (not bad for a 993c engine). The only down side was that the clutch used to chuck up something rotten!!! The smell was like a rotting corpse/curry fart which was quite embarressing when you had (female) company.The same occurred in a Daihatsu Fourtrack so it must have been a characteristic of that manufacturer. I never had problems such as clutch failure so don't panic.

[LiveDiamond]

I have recently bought a 1996 A4 2.6L Auto, and have had a similar smell coming out from the underside of mine. What would that be?

[golf tdi 02]

sorry to be bad bearer of bad tidings but i think at the time you might have burnt the clutch a bit still good for many miles

[LiveDiamond]

Golf TDi 02. Were you talking to Wickerman? Or me?

[ini]

If you lightly burn your clutch, any damage/glazing will quickly ablate during normal operation.