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Gasoline odor
On 5/10/2013 5:40 AM, Bill Leary wrote:
> Oh, well. If I wanted something economical I wouldn't be driving a 26 > year old car. But it is fun to drive, right? Check each spark plug and see if any are gas fouled, or if any particular cylinder is running rich. -- I'm never going to grow up. |
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Gasoline odor
"PeterD" wrote in message ...
> On 5/10/2013 5:40 AM, Bill Leary wrote: >> Oh, well. If I wanted something economical I wouldn't be driving a 26 >> year old car. > > But it is fun to drive, right? It is such a joy to drive. I drove a guy I work with to pick up his car last summer. During the drive he said "You're making pretty good money right now. Why don't you buy your dream car?" and I said "You're sitting in it." My other car is a 2000 Plymouth Neon. 2.2L 16V. I inherited it from my father. It's quick and handles very well. Maybe even better than the Scirocco. Though the Scirocco need some suspension work so I don't know how it would come out once that's done. I drive the Neon when I won't drive the Scirocco. Usually weather, or I'm packing a lot into it, or that I suspect I'll have a hard time finding a parking space with a low risk of gathering dents. Every time I get back into the Scirocco after driving the Neon for a few weeks, it's like I've been born again to the joy of driving. I’m always strongly reminded of the term "Fahrvergnügen." Heck, sometimes it doesn't even take "weeks." I had to drive the Neon last night to haul lighting equipment. I'll drive the Scirocco later today to go shopping and I know how it's going to feel. I've driven a lot of cars that handled better, and all of them were faster, but there's something about the whole package of the Scirocco that's just "it" for me. > Check each spark plug and see if any are gas fouled, or if any particular > cylinder is running rich. Ah, yes. I hadn't thought of that. That would tell me which injector is sticking. Assuming it's a cylinder injector rather than the cold start one. And, of course, assuming it's a sticking injector and not a sensor or computer problem. Still, it's quick, cheap, thing to check. Thanks. - Bill |
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Update on the gas odor and poor gas mileage with my '87 Scirocco 16V.
I think I mentioned that the car started doing this after not being driven, or even run, for a few months during the winter. When I started using it regularly again after the winter hibernation I soon noticed that gas mileage had dropped from it's normal 26 MPG to around 18 MPG. Shortly after that my son was following me somewhere and smelled unburned fuel in the exhaust. Well, a week or two back we had a cold snap here but, since it was just cold, not snow or rain, I kept driving it. The second morning of the cold snap it was pretty hard to start. It seemed flooded. So I did the "clear the engine" routine and it started, with a huge smell of unburned fuel. A couple of days after that I noticed it didn't seem to be using gas as fast as I'd gotten used to. Filled it, reset the trip odometer and drove it until I'd used a bit over a quarter tank of gas. When the trouble started I was getting 40 to 50 miles on about a quarter of a tank. This time it was nearly 80. And when I did the numbers after filling it again, it came to almost 28 MPG. That doesn't really mean it's better than it used to be before the problem. As long as I've had the car I've gotten between 24 and 28 MPG, depending on how I drive it, how long I warm it up, and all that. So, I usually just say it gets 26 MPG and leave it at that. So, this 28 MPG just means it's back to normal. So, I don't know what the problem was, but it seems that something about the cold snap cleared it. Weird, huh? - Bill |
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