fuel smell peugeot 205

Have you checked the return pipe from engine to tank.also the pipe that gos from pump to engine check that under the car from back to front, also check joints.

I had a 205 once that suddenly burst into flames. After the fire brigade put it out I found that the metal pipe going into the fuel pump had worked itself loose.

Thanks for the replies. WE checked the pipes but vcouldn't find anything. The smell is strongest at the back near the cap, but also insde the car, and we think it may be the rubber sleeve inside the body is letting fumes from the filler pipe into the car. The breather system seems a bit odd, in that there is a plastic bottle just above the filler cap. Haynes (bless em) dont say anything about this, or indeed much at all about the petrol system.

Hopefully it wont blow up! We just drive with our heads outside the window at the moment!

Mike

check all the clips on the pipe,are tight and not just done up with out fitting onto the inner pipes.