Does anyone else drive round with a car that constantly stinks of exhaust fumes

[Ben Lessani]

....or is it just me?

I replaced the manifold gaskets and resealed the whole exhaust and there doesn't appear to be any leaks, but the car still stinks of fumes in the cabin. I find myself driving round with the window open all the time because the hot air blower just fills the car with petrol fumes.

Is it just a side effect of old motoring, or just my car?

[Diamond Hell]

Sounds like you should check your fuel tank breather pipes.

[Ben Lessani]

Ou est ca? Stangely enough you can only really mell it when the engine is warm - and its intensity increases if I put the blower on.

[russ-vdub]

if it smells more with the blowers then the leak is in your bay as thats where it draws the air from. get under your bonnet, engine running, and have a sniff round the injectors, fuel lines etc etc. have a feel about also for moisture, if your finger smells of petrol, bingo

[russ-vdub]

but to answer your question.

no lol

[RS_Matt]

Mine smells bad too, especially when warming up. 

Takes a while to turn over so might be a timing issue, previous owner told me it runs a bit rich. 

[Benrevs]

The best way to see how bad the problem is, would be to wait untill it smells real heavy of petrol and then carefully remove a match..........     

[DarnPB]

I have had this problem on my last two MKII's, and I have it on my G60. It will be the fuel supply pipes that run up from under the car. Open the bonnet and on the drivers side, (your drivers side) you will see two rigid fuel pipes with flexible attached that run to the injector or carb. One supply, one return, (if its injected). Start the car up and see if these are leaking or weeping.
Rubber fuel pipes age and the clamped part will perish away. Just remove the swaged clips, cut back the perished part and reconnect the rubber pipes with small jubilee clips.
These pipes and connections are just under the cabin fan inlet, so you will get the fumes in neet fashion.

[Ben Lessani]

The fuel lines don't run up the passenger side on my car, they come up the inside of the chassis leg of the drivers side, they pop out just under the brake master cylinder, where they connect to the metal lines which run to the fuel reg on top of the airbox.

Last time I had jubilee clips on the fuel lines on the Golf, the K-Jet pressure blew them off within minutes.

Nonetheless, I've never noticed any fuel leaks, but I will have a look.

[jase555]

try looking at the left and ised of the bulk head where the fuel line come into the engine bay as mine rubbed through just behind the inlet manifold. couldnt see it at first so i hed to pull the to pipes apart and found the tude had warn thin. the vw garage that GAVE me some pipe yes i said gave not sold told me that its a common place.

hope this helps.