Warm clutch smells sort of like burnt cucumber in my experience. Only did it once, turning right through a (now-closed) gap in the central reservation of the A1 in rush hour in the Skoda. The clutch lasted to 170,000 miles though, so it can't have done it any harm.
Your burning rubber smell could just as easily have been from a source somewhere outside the car, and nothing to do with you.
AC, I used to warm the brakes up every Friday night, running the late pallets from Leicester to Hinckley in a 7.5t to meet the export trailer by 10pm. The A47 has a dozen roundabouts and traffic lights in that length, but was usually deserted. The burning smell which invariably accompanied my arrival was a running joke amongst the guys at the export warehouse :)
Last edited by: Dave_TDCi on Wed 5 Oct 11 at 21:48
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