Hi all
Noticed strong smell of petrol in boot of car on further investigation I found that there is a breather pipe missing that goes from the top of filler neck to a filter (which was also missing ) & then out through the boot floor . I bought the car last year & prior to buying the car one of the previous owners had replaced the boot floor & unfortunately didn't bring the breather through the floor the diagrams that I have seen all show the pipe & gromit etc but not where they actually exit the boot floor .The drawings also show a second pipe & gromit & cannot see where they attach ,the filter seems to be the same as the one under the bonnet which is fine but I assume that there will always be a path for the fumes from the tank to escape from,is this breathers purpose for allowing air in when filling the car with petrol if so I wonderd whether an air admittance valve could be better for this but I do realize that this may be an issue so how do other cars overcome these problems.
Thanks in advance for any help
Liam
Noticed strong smell of petrol in boot of car on further investigation I found that there is a breather pipe missing that goes from the top of filler neck to a filter (which was also missing ) & then out through the boot floor . I bought the car last year & prior to buying the car one of the previous owners had replaced the boot floor & unfortunately didn't bring the breather through the floor the diagrams that I have seen all show the pipe & gromit etc but not where they actually exit the boot floor .The drawings also show a second pipe & gromit & cannot see where they attach ,the filter seems to be the same as the one under the bonnet which is fine but I assume that there will always be a path for the fumes from the tank to escape from,is this breathers purpose for allowing air in when filling the car with petrol if so I wonderd whether an air admittance valve could be better for this but I do realize that this may be an issue so how do other cars overcome these problems.
Thanks in advance for any help
Liam
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