Andy Marshall
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I have an intermittent fuel smell in the cabin problem on my spyder. The carbon thing on the tank was replaced last year but it has not cured it.
There are no leaks as far as I can see, and the pipework has been thoroughly checked, to no avail.
The suggestion made was to replace the fuel cap, but the smell is definitely not coming from there. Instead it first appears in the battery compartment then comes into the cabin ( I have been investigating!)
Its much worse if the car is parked on a steep nose down, or if the car is parked leaning towards the drivers side on a slope. If I park it the other way round then the smell pretty much vanishes.
I'm thinking some sort of breather or vapour recovery tube MUST be damaged - does anyone have experience of this? I see on the Eurospares website that there is a pipe that runs parallel to the filler pipe, from the filler neck to the tank, could it be that this is where the fumes are emanating? If so, how on earth do you get to it?
There are no leaks as far as I can see, and the pipework has been thoroughly checked, to no avail.
The suggestion made was to replace the fuel cap, but the smell is definitely not coming from there. Instead it first appears in the battery compartment then comes into the cabin ( I have been investigating!)
Its much worse if the car is parked on a steep nose down, or if the car is parked leaning towards the drivers side on a slope. If I park it the other way round then the smell pretty much vanishes.
I'm thinking some sort of breather or vapour recovery tube MUST be damaged - does anyone have experience of this? I see on the Eurospares website that there is a pipe that runs parallel to the filler pipe, from the filler neck to the tank, could it be that this is where the fumes are emanating? If so, how on earth do you get to it?