sup y'all,
just a quick question. been smelling gas in my car. not sure why. the smell comes in from the vents after the heater is turn on. could it been the heater motor? need new gas filter? any professional ideas out there? THks!

Stickies.............

yeah that helps alot dawg. i do had the smell though. it too cold to go out and check on the car.

What did you just say??? Too cold??? I work in Seattle.

ic. hehehe...u from seatown? it was hecka cold this morning. snow too. it's koo now though i guess, not as cold. i'll check up on it later perhaps. the car is at home now.

Im in Tacoma....I don't see ANY snow around here, how you get it in seattle?

reppin' p-town beeznatch!

Who said anything about snow?

i live on the highlands man. we didn't get that much though, just about an inch. they got more up in everett.

We have lots of snow here, but I am east of the Cascades. I think we have about 4-5 inches on the ground and had another inch last night and I think it is 33 degrees right now on my lunch.

Quit whining and fix your car. At least figure out what's wrong before the thing catches on fire. Maybe that will warm you up.

read the thread....Mr moderator

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Originally Posted by Jeff92se
What did you just say??? Too cold??? I work in Seattle.


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ic. hehehe...u from seatown? it was hecka cold this morning. snow too. it's koo now though i guess, not as cold. i'll check up on it later perhaps. the car is at home now.

Oops. The grammar was killing me. There isn't really much snow to speak of.

thats the only thing I hate about Tacoma.....everyone around us gets snow, we get rain

ok, let's all race to mt st helens, last one there gets his max rolled into the crater.

TOO COLD here in minneapolis. I think i need a new starter and i also need work on my windshield whipers.. after like 10 minutes of fooling around in the BITTER COLD i was like ok **** this nonsense and just took it to a shop =(

oh yea and i also have the gas smell too..

cant wait to move

And leave those walleyes?

I rotated all four tires yesterday in the cold You don't know how to replace the windshield wipers?

Hi,

i had the samething happen to me yesterday,

i think when it is cold outside the temp guage drop down and the ecu think the engine is cold so it go back into warm up mode so the ecu tells the fuel injector to dump more fuel into the engine until the temp guage is back to normal then the ecu tells the fuel injector to not dump that much fuel into the engine,

i smell the gas from the vent when i was driving my car last night in a very CA rainning day,

Since the fuel injection system is a closed system, why would you be smelling anything though the vents if your description of the problem was accurate?

if you smell fuel...its leaking....if you smell it from the vents in the cold....its probably leaking somewhere in the engine bay...hasn't there already been a thread on this..."IF its cold, and you smell gas from the vents..."
im going to say you have a very small crack on a hose on your fuel rail. the cold causes the hose to shrink making it leak fuel and giving the fuel smell in your vents...then it warms up...causing the hoses to expand...closing the holes....

Yes. I've (among coutless others) have commented on this very thing for the last few years. Plus it's the SECOND sticky. You would think that maybe SOME of you 3-genners would have seen it.

I was just on vacation in the sea/tac area but I came back home last night It is pretty cold up there though. Down in Albuquerque it's t-shirt wheather with blue skies

yeah well im from california, i cant take this =P

and i dont need to replace my windshield whiper blades... its that whatever connects them to the motor broke i guess, and ive never been there before and didnt wanna figure it out in the cold

Here I'll make it easy, here is the link

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=364133

finally, some real professional help. just feeling a bit thugging that all!

Hehe...yea I think Im the one who started the other thread on this (a few weeks back) which inevitabily led to DanNY to create that stickie!!

(I never did get my fuel rail looked at tho...dropped a lot on that tune-up so figured I'd wait til it gets real bad and my car blows up under my a$$!! - Seriously though, the smell has seemed to gone away even in the cold mornings lately..so i think i'll wait til it comes back)

P.S. You know people, its easier to read the dam stickies up there; especially since theyre the first dam thing you see when entering this forum, then to post a whole new thread and wait for replies (THE ANSWER IS ALREADY THERE!)

the stickie format isn't logical enough IMHO, and too many of them.

it really should have more of a flowchart feel to it.
just my .02