Re: sulfur smell

[Kevin <aventari@cts.com>]

sulfur smell is either a bad catalytic converter or and overcharging
alternator, which wrecks the battery and makes the battery smell like
rotten eggs. With our wonderful VW electrical system, i doubt that the
alternator is OVERcharging. heh

At 05:45 AM 9/8/98 -0500, you wrote:
>While I've never had it happen to me, I've heard that cars can smell like
>sulfer when the catalytic converter is clogged up or going bad... 
>
>At 11:52 PM 9/7/98 -0500, Neal Tovsen wrote:
>>OK...this is going to sound somewhat...well...odd:
>>
>>My car farts.
>>
>>With all seriousness, my '88 16V, which I've only owned
>>about 3 weeks, occasionally lets loose a fairly strong
>>sulfur (rotten-egg-like) smell. I have no idea what might be
>>causing it, and the one time it happened while I was parked,
>>I was unable to tell where it was coming from. I could smell
>>it both inside and outside the car. This generally might
>>happen once or twice a day, and seems to be completely
>>random. It usually goes away completely within a minute or
>>two. At first, I thought it might be other cars around me,
>>but as the saying goes, "he who smelt it, dealt it."
>>
>>Granted, it is possible that my car is picking up on my own
>>habits ;-), but I'd really like to hear some ideas from the
>>list...if anyone has any. Could it be something wrong with
>>the exhaust?
>>
>>TIA
>>Neal
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