macdaddies911

The past few days I've been smelling fuel while sitting in the cabin. I popped the hood and don't smell anything, I put my head under the car and again smell nothing. I checked the fuel cap and it's on good and tight, I don't know where it's coming from! It's not overwhelming but noticeable.

Zoomie

I would be extremely cautious to drive. There was a thread in forced induction where he lost the car to fire and the only warning was a mild fuel smell. Hope it's an easy fix, stay safe!

macdaddies911

I'm na for now. Can't pinpoint the smell

SLracer

Try sniffing around in the rear drivers side wheel well. I noticed this on my car last spring and happened to be on a group drive at the time and wandered around sniffing other cars once I had traced mine to that area and found 25% of the cars were doing the same thing. I have a feeling mine is associated with the Evap vacuum leak code my car is intermittently throwing although I asked other drivers if they were throwing codes and most weren't but still had the smell. I noticed it was worst in warmer weather as well

keviinbraah017

Yea, I would be very careful. Their was a guy with a white s2000 that he had just bought and he was driving home (after inspections by Honda) and started to get the same smell as you and he just put the widows down and kept going, the car caught on fire 10-20 minutes after.


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zeroptzero

Pull the trunk liners and poke your haad around the fuel fill pipe just in front of the rear driver side suspension point, it could be coming from the fill pipe which has hoses that lead to the evap system. If that is okay follow the hoses lower under the vehicle to the evap system itself.

macdaddies911

It's def coming from the rear, I'm thinking maybe the cat is deteriorating and that's why the scent is stronger. I've been hitting redline all day and quite frankly am not concerned about the car catching fire. That issue you all keep mentioning obviously had to do with the turbo kit.

emdzey01

I remember you were working on your top a few days ago, maybe you disturbed something with the fuel pipe? Its right underneath the soft top tray and you might have bent or hit something while you were there.

macdaddies911

i sure hope not!! I was pretty rough getting the panels back in though.

macdaddies911

What should i look for specifically? What do i check if i do ID the smell there?

I'll try to look around there too