Fiat Panda Easy 2018 exhaust smell
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2022 12:31 pm
Hello, sorry for the long question.
3 weeks ago my mother was driving her 2018 Panda Easy, and drove over a rock that'd fallen from a hedge, she slowed as much as possible but went over it (like a speedbump at 30 miles an hour)
No obvious problems , but I managed to have a look underneath , and I could only see a slight scuff to the Flexi join in the pipe.
2 weeks later she's said when she parked in the garage there was an eggy smell.
I went out and had a look and there was , but it disappeared quickly , I turned over the engine and there was no eggy smell.
It's happened a few times since , only reason I'd notice it was because it was in the garage, I wouldn't of noticed it outside. The car was MOTd and serviced 2 months ago.
The car runs fine and quiet, and there's no loss of fuel efficiency that I can tell .
It's just the smell now and then.
The car has done 18,500 miles and is 4 years old . I've read horror stories about catalytic converter failure :( could that bump of damaged it ? There's no obvious physical damage that I can see from underneath, plus it's located on the manifold .
Thanks in advance
3 weeks ago my mother was driving her 2018 Panda Easy, and drove over a rock that'd fallen from a hedge, she slowed as much as possible but went over it (like a speedbump at 30 miles an hour)
No obvious problems , but I managed to have a look underneath , and I could only see a slight scuff to the Flexi join in the pipe.
2 weeks later she's said when she parked in the garage there was an eggy smell.
I went out and had a look and there was , but it disappeared quickly , I turned over the engine and there was no eggy smell.
It's happened a few times since , only reason I'd notice it was because it was in the garage, I wouldn't of noticed it outside. The car was MOTd and serviced 2 months ago.
The car runs fine and quiet, and there's no loss of fuel efficiency that I can tell .
It's just the smell now and then.
The car has done 18,500 miles and is 4 years old . I've read horror stories about catalytic converter failure :( could that bump of damaged it ? There's no obvious physical damage that I can see from underneath, plus it's located on the manifold .
Thanks in advance