gasoline smell after fill-up
 

Every time I fill up the tank, I get a really strong gasoline smell--like I'd dumped a quart of the stuff on the back seats. I don't over-fill the tank after the pump auto-offs. Smell goes away fairly quickly. Has anyone else had/noticed this?

:rolleyes:

Jeez...

"It goes away quickly"

Jesus, you just dumped 10 gallons of fuel in your car, it's not going to smell rosey clean at every gas station.

Not a problem at all, just light up a cigarette and it will go away.

Thanks for your help!! You guys are just great. Duh! I always know I can count on good, solid advice here.
I've filled my tank on other cars. This is different. I'll go find my answers somewhere else.

what the fuckin christ was wrong with the advice we gave you??

Hah this is the THIRD time....

I give someone advice they ask for, they don't like the answer, then they get all hurt and mad at me. Then I turn out to be right.

I'll try to explain for the slow ones in the room. Listen carefully: You guys didn't have an answer. It's totally useless dumb-cluck noise.

Maybe if he had given us a little more information eh?

"My car smells like gas at the gas station, but it goes away quickly"

Hmm. My car smells like gas at the gas station too. But it goes away after I drive away.

Seems to me responses so far condemn any new response from the same sources as totally untrustworthy. You've declared yourselves to be unreliable, strutting yawps not worth attention.

Three things:
1) If it was the usual, normal smell-after-fill-up, I'd not have posted....can you maybe figure this part out w/o my having to 'xplain to you? How simple should I make this for you? Shall I use smaller words next time? Simple sentences? Do commas confuse you? Semicolons a mystery, are they? Inductive reasoning beyond your capability? If you can't read and reason, maybe you shouldn't write.

2) Please notice it's winter outside. I fill the tank with all windows up. How do the fumes then get into the passenger area?

3) I'm not looking for "advice," thanks very much. I'm looking for owner-experience on this: Has anyone else noticed an unusually strong odor after fillup? Is what's been unusual in my experience with other vehicles in this car normal? Or should I have my fill-pipe connections checked? (DON'T ANSWER!!)

--I'd be perfectly happy if this thread died.

Yet you keep coming back. :rolleyes:

All I asked for was more information than "My car smells like gas after I fill up" You need to to throw away the personal attacks. I NEVER said anything off the wall to you, I would expect the same courtesy from you. You act like you are 12 years old.

Now let's diagnose the problem.

Your car has a pungent odor of gas after fillup, but it leaves quickly right? How fast is quickly? Like right after you drive the car? Tell us more ok? Thats all we ask.

If you want to know a reason why we are rude to questions like the way you posted yours, scroll back through the dozens of pages of posts and read how blatantly stupid most of the questions are. Uninformative posts that give us nothing to base credible answer to.

Drop the attitude, give us more information and we would be more than happy to help you out the best we can.

The original question seems fine to me. It's the first three responses that strike me as offensive or, at best, stating the obvious.

The question wasn't a hard one and the relevant information was addressed: I don't "pack" my tank. The experience is unusual, not what I've had from other cars including another Protege. So I posted.

If I've found offensive anyone innocently making a sincere reply, I apologize. But the three responses I got struck me as not sincere, unhelpful, obvious or childish: all noise, no data. These responses are the kind that make a forum finally useless and not worth reading. This is usually a great place to say things--be they experienced or naive, wise or foolish.

I hope I'm courteous in my originating posts, in my responses to others' and I hope we all have that attitude in the way we use this place. You may disagree, but I didn't find any courtesy or consideration in responses to this thread.

Anyway, whether by my cause or another's, this thread is infected with the dumb virus. I'm happy to move on.

Do you leave the car running during fill-up (as many of us cold-climate dwellers do)? If so, maybe the fumes are getting in through the ventilation system, and then fading out as you drive into cleaner air.

~HH

thanks, Slva... Nope, engine's off, car's doors and windows shut and buttoned up tight, no splash-back up the filler pipe, fume-stopper device on the gas pump functional.

I think if the windows were not closed, the fumes wouldn't be so noticable. But if the car's closed up, how is it that there's fumes in the passenger area?

Since your car is new take it back to the dealer. They will use a sniffer to check for fuel leaks. It is possible. Better safe than sorry.:cool:

Even if your car's windows are closed, there is still ventilation ocurring. All cars are designed so that air will constantly flow through them. Generally this is accomplished through the dash vents and a set of inconspicuous vents in the rear of the car (they do not blow air - they are just there for circulation, and to avoid pressure build up when you DO use the blower). Obviously, the ventilation and circulation of air will be greatest while in motion (if the blower is off). However, just because the windows are up, doesn't mean your car is "airtight" - if it was, it might FLOAT! ;)

The sedans DO have these inconspicuous air vents in the rear (so does the P5, in the hatch I believe). Check the manual - I believe they are detailed there. It's possible the vapors are coming in that way, because they do vent to the outside (in a roundabout kinda way) - once you find them, see if the vapor smell is strongest there after a fill-up. If so, it's possible something isn't lined up correctly in your fillpipe or the trim surrounding it - maybe.

Just a few thoughts.....as I have not noticed any smell of gas in my P5.

~HH