New member here. Hello!

 

I've just bought myself a manual 2005 Toyota Corolla Conquest ZZE122R 5Y.

 

Loving. It.

 

However, after purchase I noticed that when reversing hard - up hill or on unsealed road... well, there's this horrible fart smell.

 

Wondering what it could be? My google search turned up clutch or catalytic converter... I dunno what that means...

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks :)

LOL!

Go to a different service station to fill up next time, then see if the smell goes away ;)

Clutch will normally smell like something is burning if you give it a hard time.

Edited June 1, 201313 yr by rian

Change fuel first for sure, but if that doesn't fix it then its catalytic converter time I expect.

 

Its no longer breaking down the produsts of part-combustion and you are smelling suphur compounds. A gas analyser at a testing station will tell you how good it is.

 

The clutch wouldn't slip and smell in reverse, and you would feel it not working.

Sorry try not use reverse or check boot for dead bodys.

 

sorry sorry its a bit like saying magna on here sorry :laff:

 

I no red thats one.

 

rob

I don't understand much of the last comment, was it supposed to make sense?

 

Just to point out it's not a clutch burning smell but a fart smell. Smells more like fart to me (methane?) than sulphur, definitely not pleasant.

 

I guess I'll get the car checked out. Just refueled and getting used to friction point so I'm not over-revving so much which will also help.

If in doubt, rev it out!

 

Did you buy petrol with ethanol in it? Ethanol smells er.....interesting....when its burnt.

If in doubt, rev it out!

 

Did you buy petrol with ethanol in it? Ethanol smells er.....interesting....when its burnt.

 

Nice call Dave, especially the 85 blend, especially when I can smell it due to perished seals

Definitely catalytic converter. Mine does the same thing... it did it since new. Its normal. If you smell raw pump fuel... and then smell quality racing fuel... the pump fuel smells like shit... thats the sulphur. Can't do anything about it.

sounds like sulphur dioxide (????) or better known as rotten egg gas.

Breakfast burritos

or baked beans...............

The smell is normal.

 

But why are you reversing hard up an unsealed road?

 

If the cat con is not up to operating temp i.e. you are reversing up a driveway in the morning, then it won't yet be functioning properly, and could explain why you are getting the odour.

 

Either that, or you had eggs for breakfast.

2 year old post ,ha ha

2 year old post ,ha ha

 

We're all here for the fart jokes.

I had some punks throw a fart bomb under the rolla once when I parked opposite Beenleigh High School.

 

I'd have been pissed but it smelled like something if have done back in the day... Damn sulfur.

Edited April 24, 201511 yr by GJM85