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My car has a very strong petrol smell when idle, its not leaking into the cabin, but if i am just starting up the car and have the door open, or idle at a drive through with the windows down.. it pretty smelly. the exhaust is not smokey or anything :S

is this normal..

its my first car so ive got nothing to comare it to but mums magna and dads astra dont smell this much.

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My car has a very strong petrol smell when idle, its not leaking into the cabin, but if i am just starting up the car and have the door open, or idle at a drive through with the windows down.. it pretty smelly. the exhaust is not smokey or anything :S

is this normal..

its my first car so ive got nothing to comare it to but mums magna and dads astra dont smell this much.

I am driving a NA S2 R33 as well, experiencing similar problems when im idling especially when the engine is cold...till today, i cant figure out wats wrong with it.....didnt notice any leaks from the injectos though

hows ur consumption like?

btw nice S2 u got there

thanks, consumption is excellent about 450km per tank. and yeah i must agree when its cold its a lot worse. i have no modifications except a muffler tip.

it doesn't seem like a big problem, i can live with it. just was curious to see if any other people get the same thing

Mine smells only on cold start, once its warm you cant smell a thing

I presume because the ecu runs it rich while warming up

I had leaking injectors also but i got that fixed, before that the petrol smell was always there.

is the smell in and around the engine bay? or unburnt fuel coming from the exhaust?

if it's the later then you're just running rich idle

it is the later

very much from the exhaust

Mine does it too, S1 33 n/a, when i hop out i sometimes get a huge wiff of it. usually near the driver side door i smell it more..

I only get like 300k's a tank prob the way i drive though and alot of little trips

yeah my old series 2 used to do that, my new one doesnt, both n/a

it used to stink like rotten egg's/petrol.

no idea what it was as my car was completely stock with under 100,000k's...aparently

i put on a 3 inch cannon onto the stock system and this made it 100 times worse. i think the ecu makes the car run rich to protect it from something..as you can tell i dont know much about cars.

i get around 350k's to a tank....i think.

at least i know im not the only one.

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