I have owned my pathy for about 2 weeks now, 95 XE Sport with 233k kms on it, and on three separate occasions I have smelled raw gasoline fumes inside. The first time it happened I thought it was someone elses car, there was an older boat of a car in front of me and I figured yeah this guy is pumping gasoline straight out his tailpipe... then the second and third time it happened I pulled over immediately and popped the hood. I could smell it very strong under the hood, like the air coming up from the fan had a constant strong gasoline odour, yet visually I cannot see any leaks or any problems. I checked at the tail pipe to see if the exhaust could be the culprit, but it smelled normal to me, no excessive odour.
Anyone have any thoughts? Normally I would just wait until I took it in to see a mechanic, but I have to drive this thing to work every day, and I don't want to end up with a fire under my hood or something. The previous owner complained about bad gas mileage too, but I personally thought it was rather good when I got 450 kms on my first tank... any thoughts on that?
Thanks for any suggestions or comments on this, I am hoping it's not too big of a deal. Going to pick up a fire extinguisher in the meantime... you know... just in case
steve
