Car smells of burning plastic

[surlycurly]

Bought a new car today (second hand but quite new and low mileage/ good condition). Drove it home and there is a definite smell of warm or burning plastic. Any ideas? No warning lights or concerns.

Could it be a plastic bag wrapped around something underneath? Some parts like the drive shaft abd exhaust system get really hot and a plastic bag would melt abd stick to it, then smell like burning every time it was driven.

Ooh good grief I never even thought about something that simple! How would I know? Crawl half under with a mirror?

I bought a (brand) new car recently and was alarmed to smell burning plastic when I got home. It wore off pretty quickly.

Google it - there are lots of reassuring answers

My mom had a carrier bag stuck for ages under her car it stank she had an mot they whacked it up in the air and ripped it off for her

So the consensus is that I shouldn't phone in floods of tears tomorrow panicking that my car is a dud?

My car did this a while back. Plastic bag in/around the exhaust.