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Funky Smell Coming From Air Vents - 99 Corolla

By 99 Riceburner September 22, 2009



Hello all. Nice new set up here at Corolland....well, new to me. Probably been a while for you folks.

At any rate, for the past couple of days when I start my car and the interior fan is on, automatically a funky smell starts coming out of the vents that seems to be the strongest right after starting, but intermittently picks up intensity while driving.

It's kind of a smoldering cardboard/elephant-house-at-the-zoo smell. Doesn't seem to be the universal "worn sock smell" that builds over time due to a bad condenser or "sweet" smell associated with busted heater core.

There are other attributes to the car that I would ordinarily list, but I would like to see your hypothesis' first with the details I've given thus far.

Thank you in advance and I will be checking back soon.

99 Riceburner

an elephant crapped in your HVAC air intake below the cowl, try cleaning that out.



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