My Yaris is Melting...Literally

[Ran Kizama]

So a few days ago, I pulled up to my driveway and I smell this weird burning smell. I think nothing of it, maybe the coating burning off of my new tires. No biggie. It'll go away.

Then yesterday after mounting my new springs, I pull off of the interstate and I instantly smell something burning and there is smoke coming out from under the hood. WTF?! I pop the hood and smoke start pouring out. It doesn't smell like oil or coolant, but more like melted plastic. The smoke seems to be coming from somewhere above the exhaust manifold but I can't say for certain.

I immediately head towards the Toyota dealership since it's only a 1/2 mile down the road. At the Toyota dealership, the car starts to smoke inside their service department and they have no idea what's going on. The ask me if I've changed the oil. I tell them that it has 1650 miles on it and they say they'll get to it on Monday.

This SUCKS! I finally get my wheels and springs on, and my car starts to melt. Now I'm driving this RAV4 that I want to smash into a wall until I hear back from them. Here's hoping that it's nothing serious.