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Chroline smell in garage

JalenHurtsBirds

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Have two EVS (Rivian) and BMW i4.

Wife called and said that there's an odd chlorine smell in the garage. Went out and it absolutely smelled like chlorine of which I keep no pool chemicals inside.

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The rivian was unhooked around 830 this morning and left shutting the garage behind it. Went out to around 10:00 a.m. to take out recycling (just bmw i4) and no smell in garage.

Rivian came back around 1:30 p.m. and shut garage behind behind it. Wife left with rivian around 3:00 p.m. and called mentioned the garage smelled like chlorine. Went out and it absolutely did, so it's leading me to believe that there's something with the rivian or something that might have been on the tires, but I have no idea.

Any thoughts? No outlets smell or anything, but it's a distinctive chlorine smell.
There's a pool company in her strip of business so I'm wondering if she might have gone through some spilled chlorine but that would have not been that strong on the tires after driving back. 5. MI.
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Possibly unrelated, but I had the windows in my R1T tinted, and had a similar chlorine smell. The tint company told me it was just off-gassing from the tint and would go away after a few weeks. The only other fluid odor I've had from my R1T is when the battery coolant pump developed a leak. The issue is that with a coolant leak, you may not see fluid on the ground because a plastic underbody cover below the coolant pump can trap any drips/fluid.
 
 








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