Your Love Is Like Petrol
Sep. 12th, 2024 08:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
diffrentcoloursI had my car taken in for MOT about five weeks ago, and I've not driven it much since. When I went to pick it up from the MOT there was a really strong petrol / petrochemical smell. I figured it had just been in a garage being poked and prodded and assumed it would go away. I didn't drive it much, and the smell... didn't go away. To the point where I started getting suspicious. Particularly when I noticed that it faded when I turned off the ventilation, but came back when I turned it back on. So it smelled like something was leaking into the ventilation.
I took it to the garage yesterday, and they opened the bonnet before turning over the engine. Apparently a fuel line was "pissing" petrol over the inside of the bonnet and they were amazed nothing had caught fire. So that was a narrow break.
It's fixed now and the car smells fine, just in time for a long car journey in a week or so.
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Date: 2024-09-12 09:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-09-12 09:51 pm (UTC)Yep. This is one of the times I wish I knew more about cars and could have diagnosed this myself. Even being able to tell from the smell that it was definitely petrol would have helped.
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Date: 2024-09-12 09:29 pm (UTC)Hope your long journey goes well.
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Date: 2024-09-12 09:51 pm (UTC)Ta, I'm sure I'll blog about it more in a little while.
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Date: 2024-09-13 01:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-09-15 12:56 pm (UTC)I would have thought so!
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Date: 2024-09-13 11:25 am (UTC)