Q: Burning smell under hood after driving and when driving I hear a sound sort of like a fan running what is going on? HELP!!!
Two days I smelled a burning under hood no smoke then today went to start and nothing...HELP
My car has 103999 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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