Petrol Smell

[Guest metalmickey]

Hi

 

I have a 98 Ford Galaxy 2.3 Petrol. The car has an intermittent fuel smell but there is definitely no fuel leak. I have never detected the smell outside of the car (which means I cannot follow my nose to the source), but I seem to get the smell after heavy braking or cornering if the air vents are blowing fresh air. On re-circulate the smell is not there.

 

Other owners have posted about this fault and it seems that the Galaxy suffers from faulty tank vent valves, however, none of the posts have identified which valves, they just say that they got it fixed at the Main Dealer.

 

As most will know, to meet emission standards most vehicles employ a sealed fuel system to stop evaporative loss (technically it is not sealed, but vented into the inlet manifold via a carbon canister and gulp valves). The Galaxy has such a system (there is a carbon canister under the car apparently). This sealed system normally results in the tank "whooshing" when filling up at the petrol station, mine has never made such a noise. The other posts where this has been fixed state that their cars did not whoosh before but do now they are fixed.

 

So to the question, does anyone know if there is a particular valve (and where it is on the vehicle) that fails leading to these symptoms?

 

Cheers

 

Chris