hey guys, i could smell something burning the otherday in my car, looked everywhere, and i couldnt find it, it eventually stopped, and tonight when i opened my boot and looked where the spare is, i found a plastic bag which i was storing the spare wheel nuts in, had been compleatey burnt through, are boot floors susposed to get that hot? and i have a straight through exhaust on, but had it on for 2 years and never had anything like this before?
any one had a simialar experiece?

hey guys, i could smell something burning the otherday in my car, looked everywhere, and i couldnt find it, it eventually stopped, and tonight when i opened my boot and looked where the spare is, i found a plastic bag which i was storing the spare wheel nuts in, had been compleatey burnt through, are boot floors susposed to get that hot? and i have a straight through exhaust on, but had it on for 2 years and never had anything like this before?
any one had a simialar experiece?

Sounds right.. with my 3"exhaust my boot gets real hot.. ive had plastic melt in the wheel well too.. Think its normal..:)

hmm thats a bloody odd one mate i have noticed mine gets warm but that just from the ambient temp outside and i spose the exhaust and heat under the car but never ever hot enough to melt anything

i dont think i was even giving the car a thrash at the time, but when i thrash it i never had it happen

My previous Ke Verada used to get the boot floor hot enough to melt the sound proofing glued to the floor.

KL Gtvi is just the same.

Cheers

My old KS had a metal plate above the muffler to shield the boot against the heat. Mitsu
may have removed it as a cost cutting measure. Won't be too hard to fit a piece of S/S or
some other metal above the muffler.

or you could wrap the metre or so exaust pipe that runs next to the boot with exaust heat wrap

Alternativly, run the exhaust a little further away, with more room for air flow and air insulation. I would say that melting plastic is pretty bad! Perhaps you have a blocked muffler aswell?

My old KS had a metal plate above the muffler to shield the boot against the heat. Mitsu
may have removed it as a cost cutting measure. Won't be too hard to fit a piece of S/S or
some other metal above the muffler.

my TJ sports has this + i have an exec muffler. Mitsubishi might have removed it as a cost cutting measure as vald said or the exhurst shop have removed it