Strange smell
08-21-2014, 06:34 PM
#501
Today
I finally had the chance to bring my F150 back to the daeler. Today they did the deodorizing thing. I expect to be back in a week!
08-21-2014, 07:05 PM
#502
Senior Member
I'm glad I stumbled on this site and thread. I've been having the same problem on my 2012. Started around Feb. of this year. Dealer could not find anything when I had it there in April. I hate to have the "experimental truck" since they have not had any other vehicles in with this complaint or heard of this problem as of yesterday. Anyone in the Chicago area know of a dealer that is aware of this problem? I'm about 40miles southwest of Chicago
08-21-2014, 10:21 PM
#504
Senior Member
Just got the truck back with the new Evap., smell is gone!
Got a bit of glugging going on behind the dash on my short drive home. I assume some air got in the heater core. Will this noise stop?
Got a bit of glugging going on behind the dash on my short drive home. I assume some air got in the heater core. Will this noise stop?
08-22-2014, 04:27 PM
#507
Ford Customer Service
Hope to hear from you soon!
Brittany
08-22-2014, 07:39 PM
#508
Checking for leaks, flourescent dye gets you close. Electronic sniffers get you closer and then you confirm that with the good old soap bubbles. Just because that dye is present on these evaps. does not mean there is a leak.
08-22-2014, 10:27 PM
#509
Senior Member
How many of you have the Ford rubber floor mats in your trucks?? I left mine in the sun and it emits the exact same smell inside of the truck, at least for mine, I originally thought it was refrigerant, but only in hot conditions, and a/c still works.
Last edited by B-xp; 08-22-2014 at 10:37 PM.
08-22-2014, 10:49 PM
#510
That's a good point B. When I leave my truck out in the heat, it does have a strange smell to it. I haven't smelled anything like it before in an automobile and I've owned many. When the A/C smell first started I thought it had the odor of wires burning due to overload. And being in the service business for forty years I know that smell. We the consumers have no clue as to where these parts are coming from. This could very well be some kind of toxic plastic from some damned place in china.