# Burnt tire smell inside car **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Tags:** mitsubishi, lancer\ **Created:** [December 24, 2016, 1:53am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/burnt-tire-smell-inside-car/97639 "2016-12-24T01:53:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2016, 2:29pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/burnt-tire-smell-inside-car/97639/8 "2016-12-24T14:29:37Z")
Oh yes it could be the clutch! Overloading the driveline could cause the clutch to slip and that smells a bit like burning rubber. And if you were stationary, you slipped the clutch to start that tire spinning, right? How much damage can it do? If you can smell it, then you just rubbed, say, $10 off the tire. Do that enough and the tire explodes. Keep in mind, because of the differential. if ONE tire is spinning and the other is not, the spinning tire’s speed is double what shows on the speedometer. See the discussion and @B.L.E 's post here; > [@Tire speed from axle](https://community.cartalk.com/t/tire-speed-from-axle/58452): > > Tom & Ray recently answered a question about a blow tires on a 2005 Vibe after spinning in snow. Part of the answer stated that the tire speed was double the speedometer indicated speed due to the average axle speed (If speed shows 60, but only one tire is spinning, then actual was 120). I am not an Vibe expert, but I find this hard to believe! In the old days, speed was based of the transmission output (cable at rear of transmission led directly to speedometer). I suspect in newer cars the… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.cartalk.com/t/burnt-tire-smell-inside-car/97639)._