Basttion

Battery is holding strong. Yay!!
CVB is now replaced
Wheel bearing is now good too
They fired the tech who fooked my wheel bearing
Picked up a new set of license plate light housings for $29 (not bad for dealer pricing)

And the weird smell is still there at 75 MPH!!!! ARGGHH!

NOLA TT

Mine has a weird coming from the driver's seat every once in a while ;-)

TTBlack

Add more meat to your diet Vince...

TTinCT

you clean that motor yet! <drums fingers on keyboard> ;-)

Basttion

I will clean it this weekend. I'm so frustrated with this smell, though, it comes through to the cabin with the HVAC on any setting--even off.

TTinCT

outside airflow, motor smells do not usually occur....you drop a smoothie in there Mark? ;-)

Basttion

you can turn it off and on like turning a switch just by accelerating up to 75-80 mph and then dropping back down. It's killing me.

TTinCT

if it is something that has settled on the block or in a bad spot, hopefully that will get it...

From there....i would begin checking under the car for anything that is wet. You will probably need to drop the pan.....

But i am serious about checking inside too.....

Basttion

in the front part of the engine when I looked at it on the lift earlier this week, however I just assumed it was from the leaking CV boot. The dealer sort of shrugged it off after checking my oil level. I don't know, it was quite a bit of whatever it was, and it was definitely liquid--not like what you would expect CV grease to look like.

I couldn't see where it was coming from though.

TTinCT

not to many full on failures of coolant hoses on the 1.8T surprisingly......as you described it as a sweet smell, that would fit the bill.....poke around....and check your reservoir....