About a week ago, we had a pretty bad snow fall. I was out late driving people home. I got stuck in a uphill small narrow driveway with snow right up to the front lights. I worked the clutch pretty hard trying to get out, switching back and forth between first and reverse. Since than, a really bad smell has been lingering from the front end of the car. It's so bad, it smells inside the car. Anyone have any idea what that smell is? Could it be the clutch? The clutch still drives the same.

 

You probably just burned the clutch a little, its not bad, just let it sit and cool off and it should be fine.

 

^he said about a week ago so if it was just a little clutch burnage i doubt it would still be smelling bad now

 

Not to freak you out but did you take a good look under the hood? Sometimes when it gets really cold/snowy animals will take shelter where ever they can, make sure you don't have a burning carcass somewhere inside there from any time of small critter.

 

check your crankcase breather hose. its prone to failure and a crack could cause a smell similar to a testpipe

 

It might sound weird, but it could be something to do with your battery. I dont know how or if your driving experience would have impacted your battery, but I left a charger on a battery for way to long once and it made the car and the shop smell like old eggs for like a week. Just an idea....

 

egg smell = cat

 

Maybe there are eggs burning in there


Could be a several things. Problems with the O2 sensor and/or Catalytic converter or like an earlier post said, the battery if you have a regulator problem.

 

I think the difference between wire burning would be significant BUT im not there so cant smell anything ( egg smell = cat ) advice only

 

I thought about this long and hard but I can't say for sure because I don't know what a burning "cat egg" smells like.