The story goes as I got lazy and didn't swirl to avoid a huge plastic bag. After I ran it over, I look in the mirror expecting it to pop out under my car...it didn't, soon afterwards it start to stink and I have to do a emergency stop and pull that crap out. Well, even since then, the smell persisted and I get hallucinated everytime I drive my car(sMokE pLasTic eveRY daY).

I already hose off the big piece underneath that has burn to solid shape. But the odor is still there. So I jack up the car last night and went underneath to find out that the cat has lots of black stains that looks like the leftovers of the platic. I used a blade trying to scrap them off with little effects. I Simple Green them and to no use.

Anyone have been through such a weird problem? How do I remove them?


[Modified by nEoMuGen, 3:37 PM 3/15/2003]

 

Hmm... Maybe a wire brush like you'd use to clean a charcoal grill?

 

eventually, it'll burn off....

 

werd. wut he said.

 

oh and if you are really that worried about it. go start your car and let it idle for a while. more it runs the quicker it will met/burn off.

 

yeah, meanwhile drive and have the windows down. you wont even notice the burning plastic "hallucinogenic" smell

 

I have had kind of a similar problem. The engine splashguard has two little arcs burned into the back of it from my header tubes. The crap that got stick to the header has mostly burned off now. It will eventually come off I think. Try to scrub it off with a wire brush when the header is hot.

 

my cat has some walmart bag on it.. and has for months. People enjoy the plastic burning smell.

 

just be happy it wasn't a huge pile of something smelling worse

You could probably grind it off...but a bag should burn off quick enough.

 

guys...it has yet been burned off. What's left over are dark purple stuff as thin as a layer of paint. I've been driving it with that smell for the past 2 weeks, an equilaent of approx. 200 miles. I'll try a brush like some of you said. Will there be any chemical compounds that can get those off?

I don't want to be force to use sandpapgers with aircraft strippers since down there is kinda hard not to have those toxic sheit dripping all over my face.

P.S> it's not the everyday groceries plastic bag. It's one of those durable ones that use for like furnitures n' stuff...I suppose they have "tougher" compound?
Because when I hose the chasis, a piece of plastic fell off. Seems like it took the chemical heating reaction and what's use to be a plastic bag had turn into a harden piece of plastic similar to lunch boxes.


[Modified by nEoMuGen, 2:31 PM 3/15/2003]

 

haha...ray, take my T1R bpipe and you'll have a matching set!!!
my fawking bpipe has a plastic bag syndrome for 5 months now...

 

I have a solution for both of us....sell me your b-pipe so you can get rid of your smell, while it's out, I'll brush it clean.
Then, give me your T1R test pipe so I can get rid of my smell on the carsound cat.
See how things work out in harmony by nature?

 

200 grit sandpaper is my first thought.

 

This just happend to me but the bag hit my HPC coated header I guess the resale value of the header just took a ****

I hit a grocery bag in my Accord and it was months befor it went away

 

Remove and sandblast

 

LOL, Im picturing that scene in one of the Cheech and Chong movies, where they were driving the hemp van and everyone on behind them is getting stoned...LOL!

 

simple steel wool. or let it burn

 

lwt the car run for a while and then try the wire brush or steel wool.

 

steel wool is a good idea.

seriously...you can't wash melted plastic off...it's bonded to the surface and won't break apart.

 

steel wool or metal brush would be my only guesses

 

acetone, paint thinner.....may eat that plastic