Poor hot starting. Funny smell

[Bunggle]

Hi, I have a problem here. Can you help?
 
Went out last night, popped into a shop for 5 minutes and when I came back to the car, it refused to start. Turned over, spluttered, died. While this happened, the oil, coolant and heater lights stayed on (even while I left the ignition on, but didn\'t turn it over). Final symptom - when it finally did start, driving home again, there was a strange smell like melting plastic. Still had the smell this morning on the way to work (started fine from cold though). Any ideas? Thanks!

[Locki]

smell of melting plastic? ....or burning rubber? I don\'t have the starting issues you have, but i started to notice a burning rubbery smell coming from mine. Turns out the air pump was rubbing against a hose coming off the back of my air box. It had worn a hole right through it! Don\'t know if your issues are connected somehow, but may be worth having a look incase it\'s something entirely different.

[trevtubby]

Difficulty to start whilst hot is usually a sign of an engine with poor compression. Has it had a rebuild recently? Get it compression tested asap mate.

As for the smell...try what he said ^ lol.