# Car fumes **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Created:** [December 12, 2007, 11:44pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-fumes/8279 "2007-12-12T23:44:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fjkt88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba8739/32.png) [@fjkt88](https://community.cartalk.com/u/fjkt88)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 11:44pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-fumes/8279/1 "2007-12-12T23:44:14Z")
We’re in central KS and are recovering from an ice storm. My niece said that her 2005 Corolla was covered with ice, but she got the door open and started it. She said she smelled fumes like “turpentine”. Should she open the windows and let it run for a while or get it to the car dealer for diagnosis? ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 11:46pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-fumes/8279/2 "2007-12-12T23:46:32Z")
What did she use for a deicer to get into the door? Some of them can smell like that. ---
**Author:** ![Joseph\_E\_Meehan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/joseph_e_meehan/32/21_2.png) [@Joseph\_E\_Meehan](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Joseph_E_Meehan)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 1:33am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-fumes/8279/3 "2007-12-13T01:33:46Z")
Or the exhaust could be partly clogged. But I like the de-icer idea. ---
**Author:** ![pleasedodgevan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/51bf81/32.png) [@pleasedodgevan](https://community.cartalk.com/u/pleasedodgevan)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 3:01am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-fumes/8279/4 "2007-12-13T03:01:22Z")
The vents were probably covered and couldn’t get air and the wind was probably blowing the wrong way.