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Our car runs ok but gets a hot smell and a rotten egg smell comes out the exhaust

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The smell is your catalytic convertor, depending on the mileage and it's driving habits (in town, or highway) it might be partially clogged. If it's driven mainly in town, and not on the highway it's probably the case. Might have gotten some bad gas or something also, but that will go away if that was the case.

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