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have you spilled oil on engine when adding oil. this can cause the problem, takes a while to go do you have diff oil, or brakefluid leaking onto brake pads this will also cause same problem.may also be small leak in heater core which apart from smell is not locatable until the leak gets really bad

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Q: Car smells like burning rubber or oil and mechanics can't find anything wrong?
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