https://diffrentcolours.dreamwidth.org/ You Don't Live Like I Do - Dreamwidth Studios Thu, 12 Sep 2024 19:46:47 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios diffrentcolours personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/11283946/3088724 https://diffrentcolours.dreamwidth.org/ 100 100 https://diffrentcolours.dreamwidth.org/962390.html Thu, 12 Sep 2024 19:46:47 GMT https://diffrentcolours.dreamwidth.org/962390.html <p>I 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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>It's fixed now and the car smells fine, just in time for a long car journey in a week or so.</p> <br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=diffrentcolours&ditemid=962390" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://diffrentcolours.dreamwidth.org/962390.html car public 7