[s-cars] Gas smell in cabin - where to look?

[chris chambers]

Tony,

if you've consumed enough gas that it's below the seam of the tank
the tank won't leak and you won't have a smell.

If after filling the tank again the smell returns crawl under the
car and look at the front seam of the tank. Hopefully for your sake
your tank isn't leaking

HTH
Chris


--- Tony Curran <tony.curran at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Don't feel bad. My car is fairly "new" compared to others so I do
> preventative maintenance from what I see being discussed on the list
> if it's
> reasonable. It just so happened I had a can of POR 15 to paint a
> newly
> received metal x-over pipe and as there was chatter on the list about
> fuel
> leaks from pin holes I thought "what the hey" and did it. Will be
> replacing
> the fuel pump relay soon and measuring impedance of injectors!!!! 
> 
> Actually, fuel smell has not returned! Drove car to my wrench this
> morning -
> 1km away so engine didn't get hot. He couldn't find a leak. Drove car
> to
> work - no smell. Drove car home, no smell. Drove car around tonight,
> again
> no smell.
> 
> A colleague suggested I may have driven through some spilled gas at
> the
> station I passed. Would explain what I experienced though will keep a
> close
> eye (and nose) on it.
> 
> Thanks to all who replied.
> 
> Tony
> 96 S6 - in to Stebro next week for new center resonator to fix
> blowin'
> exhaust 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kent McLean [mailto:kentmclean at comcast.net] 
> Sent: January 22, 2009 2:22 PM
> To: 'S-Car-List at Audifans.Com'
> Cc: ony Curran
> Subject: RE: [s-cars] Gas smell in cabin - where to look?
> 
> 
> Tony makes the rest of us look bad by writing:
> > Actually a couple of years ago I took all the clips off and
> > painted the lines with POR 15 to mitigate that but I'll take a
> look.
> 
> Crikey.  Well then I'll second the thought on the gas tank.
> The gas tank on my '80 had to be replaced because of a leak
> at the seam. 
> 
> -- 
> Kent McLean
> '99 A4 Avant, V6 Tiptronic
> '91 200 TQA #3, gray, UFOs, chipped, Euro headlights
> '91 200 TQA #2 blue, up in smoke 2
> '91 200 TQA #1 black, recycled
> '94 100 S Avant, "Moody", sold
> '89 200 TQ, "Bad Puppy", up in smoke
> 
> 
> 
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