Exhaust Rattle and smell

[Rolla_Kid]

A mouse may have crawled in there and died lol, it happens.

Could be a blocked or dead cat

WTF, what size muffler do you have? fair enough a mouse.... but a cat?



I had a similar sound in my corolla (yeah i know) and i found out that it was the guards between the exhaust and the bottom of the body of the car, its designed to stop the heat going into the cabin, have a look at that and tighten up all those bolts under there


HTH



EDIT: just re-read this thread, defs have a look at the cat for the smell, may be causing the rattle too.