Burt

Or I can crap down their throats. Burt:banana:

Thank you I have an appointment on Thursday at another Dealer closer to home. Let's see if these yo yos can figure it out. It's amazing you buy two of the same car from the the same dealer and although they weren't rude they just didn't want to waste their time. So I will be calling the owner of the Dealership to let him know that he won't be seeing me in their showroom anymore. You would figure in this Car economy they would bend over backwards for a two time customer HUH?

Doesn't seem to make much difference. I think if I rev the car at idle the smells sometimes come through more but I have to check that again. It's very odd and I can tell you that I have had about 60 cars in my life from The cheapest to some of the most expensive and collectors as well and if this car wasn't such a good car that I never thought I would get I would have gotten rid of it a week in to ownership. I must say with all candor that these Outbacks are the closest thing to a perect motor vehicle. All purpose pretty nice looking nw, comfortable, but they do use a lot of fuel. The car is actually my sons this one that is emmiting this smell and I want to make sure it's OK before he takes it back to college in three weeks. Although he will will probably crap it up. Burt

Sorry for the mispelled words I am alwyas in a hurry. Burt

Oh I got it an external head Gasket problem I presume. The smell is coming in to the car though. Can't smell it in the engine compartment unless I lift the hood and almost press my nose up againt the area of the Steering pump and reservoir and also the coolant cap. I see nothing staining the street, driveway etc. However if it's hitting the manifols it wouldn't have time before it burned off to see it. The other issue is the fact that is' intermittant and doesn't occur constantly when driving or the engine is idling. Sometimes I get in the car prior to starting the ignition and it smalls and sometimes not. Sometimes when I am driving along it smells and then it quickly goes away and then a little later it returns. It's like a Seinfeld episode. It didn't help when I brought it back to the dealer that the Service Manger was bathed in cheap cologne and couldn't smell anything but that. Maybe he went to his locker, slapped it on so he wouldn't have to bring the car in to the shop. Ohter then this problem the car drives very weel with 17,000 miles on it. I did notice that I had to fill the coolant reservoir up from low to high and then yesterday when I opened the hood it was on low but when the car warmed up it went back up near high. Burt

Thanks for the help. So exactly where should I look for this staining. Can you send me in the right direction. Also waht is an external whatever yoiu said lol. I appreciate it. Burt

Hello, I am new hear. We have 2 2008 Outbacks. One LLBean Limited 2.5 with 7000 miles on it that is almosyt flawless and one preowned 2.5. In the the preowned car we are experiencing an intermittant sort of burning odor inside thre car. I have brought it back to the dealer twice and of course they can't smell it but every one other then the dealer can. It seems to be coming from the drivers sie and I smell the same odor under the hood near the power steering pump and the coolant cap and also in the drivers wheel well. It doesn't occur all the time. It doesn't much help to put the recirculate button on or off with or without airconditioning. My daughter thinks it smells like burning maple syrup., Does any one out there have any ideas. I have googled this and came up with sort of the same thing in older model outbacks. The other Outback does not have thois intermittant odor. Thanks for any feedback you can give me. Burt