I'm getting it too. The smell, the noise, and the smoke. What the **** is it? The front has been through one accident before and has been restored. Could it be it?

 

My car only has a smell. no smoke, no noises (other than squeaky glovebox and the rattling clutch issue). Just a smell of burnt rubber.

If you have smoke and noises, you are probably experiencing something much worse!

 

It's the oil filter. My friend told me. He knows about cars and I don't. I've been getting the regular oil changes but I've never changed the filter yet. Time to stop by Kragen, then I bring the car back to the oil changer guys and tell them to redo oil change and change filter? They recently kinda changed the oil too and I still have more mileage to go but whatever.

 

your car is smoking from the oil filter? thats not good man! I always get an Oil change+filter when i get oil changes.

 

So I just checked my oil. I think it's pretty low. I'll go to an oil stop tomorrow. Buy a filter and change out the oil again. What filter and oil should I get? I don't know **** about G35 but it has oil consumption issues.

 

Every 3k you get a new filter?

 

So messed up that this thread is up here, on my way home from work today I smelled burning rubber...someone mentioned bad, and I do remember hitting a plastic bag going about 80 on the highway....whew

 

did anyone check around their valve covers to see if maybe its lil bits of oil leaking out onto the exhause manifolds and burning off?

 

I don't know man. I don't know **** about cars. Once I open the hood I'm like "what the ****!"

 

Tell me you have been bringing your car to an oil change place and they dont change your filter.

 

Yeah I go to Alum Rock Auto Care and the Vietnamese guys there do my oil changes for $20. Something wrong with that? I thought filter lasts longer than the oil?

 

Wow. For that price im going to assume you have a fram or some other paper filter. The mileage and quality of oil and filter determines the amount of time between changes. You get what you pay for and I would be using synthetic in any car that is worth anything to you. I would recommend changing the filter with every oil change.

Btw I use a K&N gold filter on mine. Its usually about 15 for the filter and around 30-40 dollars for the oil.

 

Hmm. Sounds good. So whats a good place to go to in San Jose? What is the exact name of the:
1. Filter
2. Oil?

 

Mobil 1 oil and filter - every 3000 miles.

 

No money. Broke.