Re: Burning rubber smell
This post is a bit old but just in case anyone comes along
in the future, I would like to add that I also had the
burning rubber / Plastic smell from under the hood
or the front vent. When Idle or parked after a trip
and it was in fact a valve cover gasket fix.
The oil would leak and burn off causing the smell
I would even get a small amount of smoke visible best at night
and by illuminating slowly with a flashlight around or under the spark plug area the smell is pretty strong you cant really miss it.
The problem can either be on the passenger side or driver side each side needs a gasket and they are both different size / shape
in my case it was the passenger side. So I only needed to replace
the passenger side
The gasket for the passenger side was about 20$ got it online and my mechanic charged me 55$ to replace it, it took about 30 min, . No problems no stinky smell either after fix all was fine
Good luck!