Recently I have noticed that my 110TDi seems a bit like something plastic is melting when I give it some stick. These seems to occur more on uphills (maybe cause that is a more suitable place to get the revs up.

Yesterday I was driving back from my parents, and coming up a hill, doing about 4000 in 4th, and there was an obvious smell. Car was nice and warm - a good 80minutes into the journey. It also does it about 10 mins into a journey to work, up a road out of weymouth, say at the towards the top end of the revs in 3rd or high up in 4th.

Nothing fault code wise, apart from the sticky turbo type error (pressure error), and I know when that happens as the car goes into limp home mode.

I have not spotted anything untoward under the bonnet, so open to offers. It was doing this before the white cloud of exhaust / really poor running of Easter Sunday.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

Matt

Could be somekind of rubbish stuck to the exhaust or check the fusebox on top of the battery,take off the cover then lift the flap up, they have a habit of slowly melting one or more of the wires and fusebox.

Good reminder about the battery fuse box... I'll check that later. I would have assumed the exhaust temperature would have been hot enough to generate the melting smell regardless of speed, but still worthy of checking.

I have noticed the smell is more obvious with the climatronic unit turned off. Infact I think I first noticed it when I had the unit turned off. Not sure if that is relevant. I'll try and "test" with it turned on.

I was going to suggest the fuse box over the battery, as mine is now doing this, does anyone have any idea as to what causes this, with mine its the alternator feed wire, I have disconnected and cleaned up all the terminals associated with that wire, and also removed the battery box and done the car body earths under that, and the earth on the gearbox mounting bolt.it was ok for a few days, now its started to melt again, and I'm clearing my local scrap yard out of fuse boxes.

Just checked my main fuse above the battery and all looks ok, no sign of any melted wired. I have not checked the other alternator end of the cable, or the earthing points yet.

What I seemed to to notice was that melting smell was more obvious with the fans turned off?!

Previous issues with the fiuse box above the battery, from memory were the nuts holding the fuses in becoming loose, or maybe the alternator over charging - but if that was the case, you would hope the fuse would blow!

yes nuts coming loose is the issue so it heats up more, when mine went on my last vrs it needed a new alternator wire and fusebox, the new alternator wire looked a bit beefier than the one it replaced

everything fuse box related looks fine though, so I am wondering if something else is up with mine! Guess time will tell if it turns into a fireball on the side of the road!

I'd have a look around the exhaust/turbo area, it could be something like a loom retaining clip has broken off and dropped down onto the exhaust and is slowly cooking.

as for the hot wire thing, the nuts definately are not loose, that was the first thing checked, guess I'll replace the alternator wire, if its has some corrosion under the insulation, that could explain it.