When the fan is on in our car diesel can be smelled (smelt?). I remember the garage mentioning a leak when I last had it in but it was only slight at the time and a repair was suggested as uneconomical.
It has obviously got worse and I was wondering about the health aspects of being able to smell diesel.
Rick
not as dangerous with the diesel leaking all over the road !!!!
Chill out, there is no apparent visible dripping. Just a smell.
I would assume that the interior air should be drawn from outside the engine bay, I assume there is a break or missing ducting.
The car is due an MOT in feb and unless it goes through cheap it will be disposed of, just wondered if I was killing myself in the meantime.
R D S ( snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
Which is coming from diesel escaping somewhere.
Maybe not yourself, but you may kill somebody else - especially a biker.
I though I had made it clear that I understood that in my OP.
Hows that then? Will they be smelling it too?
R D S ( snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
And where is this escaping diesel going to...?
My nose, it would seem.
I had a problem with fumes once, coming into cabin.
That made me ill!!
As for diesel smell, if it's really bad it can cause health probs, but a faint whiff isn't too much of a concern.
And then it depends upon you too. Respiratory problems and/or allergies can be exascerbated. (is that spelt right?)
-- Billy H
"Billy H" wrote in news:455791de$0$8759$ snipped-for-privacy@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net:
Yep, exascerbating can make you blind.
So can exacerbating (the correct spelling).
Terry D.
If you like the smell of diesel you'll find yourself daydreaming about it, which will cause distraction and perhaps a crash.
No: diesel on the road is oil on the road - i.e. *very* slippery. Even just a few drops.
Andrew
They're so exasperatingly humorous in this group.
Getting high on intoxicating hydrocarbon evaporates is not difficult. It aint big and it aint clever!
-- Billy H
I had the same thing until recently.
It turned out to be the small lengths of tubing that go between the injecters and particularly the small rubber bung that terminates at the end injecter.
A new set cost me a fiver.
No more diesel smell.
Btw I let the smell go for a while as I'm lazy. Coming home the van suddenly stopped without warning. The rubber bung had gone brittle. I opened up the bonnet to find diesel coating just about everything and a quarter of a tank gone!
Get it sorted sooner rather than later if you possibly can.
David
No problem if you can stand it. In the long term it is addictive and you will become a dieselhead ;-)
Huw
Armchair mechanics assume that it has to leak badly to smell. In fact only a slight amount will stink. It could be just seeping past a seal and drying out/evaporating before it gets near dripping anywhere.
Huw
You'd have to try really hard to get high smelling diesel. Really hard. Really very hard.
Huw
Seconded.
Zathras ( snipped-for-privacy@nospamthanks.hotmail.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
And you both know for a fact that this is only a very slight amount...? The OP seems reluctant to actually look.
Is it carcinogenic?
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