Smells

[Huw Powell]

You need to bring it to your mechanic.  If you are smelling gas you 
might have a fuel leak, which can be dangerous.

Exhaust pipes are always coated with black on the inside.

The water on the ground is simply the product of burning hydrocarbons - 
water plus CO2.

As I said in another post, professionals are usually pretty good at 
figuring out where "strange smells" are coming from.

- Huw

PS nice to still see you here, Dee, is the real estate business picking 
up a bit in your corner of the woods/desert?

On 1/23/2013 8:19 PM, EllenO wrote:
> Thank you to all who responded. I think I can rule out something dead. It doesn't have that kind of smell and only smells when running.
>
> I put my finger in the exhaust and it came out black. Is that necessarily evidence of the problem or do they run richer in winter?
>
> Right now, I'm sitting in the car warming it up and to me, it smells like gas. I drove a short distance, left it parked running for a few minutes. It didn't smell as bad as other times, but I noticed a small puddle of water? on the ground under the tailpipe.
>
> In general, it wasn't really bad today. Definitely not a rotten egg smell.
>
> I will continue to look into some of your suggestions. Unfortunately, the weather on the east coast is not cooperating with outdoor activities.
>
> Dee
> 1990 pearl V8q
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