About 2 months ago I ran over a plastic bag while driving and thought nothing of it. Until I started getting strange and slightly offensive odors after driving for any length of time. It took me a while to figure out exactly what it was:
That innocent plastic bag had melted and fused itself to my exhaust. Every time it would heat up it would melt a bit more, give off some toxic fumes and aggravate me. (Dengel even accused me of burning up my clutch at the Mecca II run). I guess after 2 months this crazy plastic bag would not burn itself off.
Well today I decided to put an end to this nonsense. Some internet research revealed that Easy-Off oven cleaner would do the trick. So I jacked up the rear end of the car put it on some jackastands and let it idle for 15 minutes. Sprayed on the oven cleaner and waited 10 minutes. The balck stuff came off in chunks (thanks to some encouragement from a putty knife). Here are the results after 3 minutes of scraping and cleaning:
Driving around today produces NO obnoxious fumes or odors. Now my car smells as good as it looks. Let this be a warning, plastic bags can be a hazard!!
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