picklenick
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So I was on the interstate on my way home from work. I smelled an odd burning smell like cap gun smoke if you've ever smelled that. I thought it was the semi i was passing because it went away after a minute or so. I got off the interstate. Cruisin through the backstreets. I start smelling it again but stronger. Then i get a TPMS system malfunction. Shortly after that I got the everything isn't working series of warnings. TSC, ABS, emissions, power steering (which I lost), auto braking, parking brake, hillstart assist, all that crap. The car still smelt like fire so i thought o shit. All this is happening literally as I'm pulling into my apartment. When I opened the door the dome light came on and I could see a thick layer of white smoke blanketing the entire headliner! I grabbed the fire extinguisher I keep behind the drivers seat and popped the hood. I went over the entire engine bay with a flashlight and nothing no smoke, no smell. wtf. I went back and tried to find out what let the smoke out. I cant for the life of me figure out where it came from. I looked under the dash, under the seats, in the trunk. I felt every wire and plastic box I could reach and it was all cool to the touch. It has to be something electrical Honda buried somewhere. The only things i used on my drive were windshield defrost (65 degrees, sync enabled), Drivers heated seat (set to medium), the stereo was on briefly around the middle of the drive (bluetooth, volume on 10) outside temperature is 7 degrees (F) This is the first really cold day we've had this winter that's really the only possible catalyst i can see. I read a couple complaints people posted about rodents chewing wires and also other Honda models having battery fires because of salt water permeating the seal on the battery monitor. I will say that literally when I was driving the car home from the dealership I realized that the windshield washer didn't work. Long story short a mouse chewed the washer hose and it was pissing washer fluid down the firewall... So maybe my car does have a chewed wire... But where the actual f*** could it be there's about 5 miles of extra wire in this car that it doesn't even need to run and be a car... If anyone has any insight or similar experience I'd love to hear about it. I'm not sure what to do about this It literally just happened. I need to sleep on this. Part of me hopes it happens again and then i find the problem and fix it myself. Part of me wants to take off my CAI and reflash to stock (only 2 mods on the car thankfully i haven't installed my full exhaust yet) and wait and see if the car burns down...
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