New exhaust smell?

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Just installed the Thermal 3" exhaust a week ago and have driven about 200 miles on it so far. There's a very strong burning plastic sort of smell coming from the exhaust tips when I turn the vehicle off, but I don't notice any smells while driving with the windows down.

Is this just normal burning off of manufacturing materials such as oils or lubrication they use? Has anyone else experienced this?

 

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Completely normal to burn off the oils used in the mandrel bending process. If you never get it really hot, it will take a long time to burn off. If you take the car out and run it up into triple digits, you can burn it off in about five minutes.

 

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Yeah, my wife asked the same thing after I put the 3 in thermal on hers, And it did smell horrible regular driving takes forever to get rid of it. I was able to get rid of it in a a day or two. Switch to manual and go heat up the exhaust do some spirited driving and get the revs up there near redline.

 

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Yeah mine is already noticeably dissipating from when I posted a few days ago. The smell is still there but not nearly as strong.

I was probably more paranoid about it as I discovered the trans cooler leaking when installing the exhaust and the vehicle went straight to the dealer at that point, so I was worried it was still that leaking and the smell was burning trans fluid. But I just went under the vehicle yesterday to retighten the exhaust and to re-do the passenger side muffler and tips, and checked on the trans cooler to verify no leaks (there weren't any).