slight diesel smell Xantia hdi90
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slight diesel smell Xantia hdi90
Recently but not on all journeys I get a small whiff of diesel entering the interior. Seems to happen in stop / start traffic and last a 20/30 secs.
At first I blamed other cars around me!
What are the classic places too look for leaks - its definitely from the engine bay. No work has been carried out on the fuel supply so not "friendly-fire"!
The car has done nearly 100,000 miles. I have not noticed any drop in the very good fuel mpg.
Leakoff pipes?
FuelFilter?
pump?
Any ideas and preferred order of troubleshooting very welcome.
PaulB
At first I blamed other cars around me!
What are the classic places too look for leaks - its definitely from the engine bay. No work has been carried out on the fuel supply so not "friendly-fire"!
The car has done nearly 100,000 miles. I have not noticed any drop in the very good fuel mpg.
Leakoff pipes?
FuelFilter?
pump?
Any ideas and preferred order of troubleshooting very welcome.
PaulB
Broomie(paulB) Xantia Hdi 90 estate
exhaust or Fuel
Peter
deffo fuel. Naturally after posting to forum - no smell at all today!
PaulB
deffo fuel. Naturally after posting to forum - no smell at all today!
PaulB
Broomie(paulB) Xantia Hdi 90 estate
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Hi Paul
Not familer with HDI engines except that I know they do have a pressure pump in the fuel tank so presumably could possibly have the old problem of fuel leaks rather than sucking air. The only thing you can do really is look and smell! If there is much of a fuel leak it should manifest itself eventually.
Not familer with HDI engines except that I know they do have a pressure pump in the fuel tank so presumably could possibly have the old problem of fuel leaks rather than sucking air. The only thing you can do really is look and smell! If there is much of a fuel leak it should manifest itself eventually.
Re: fuel leak
I had a similar thing on my Xantia HDI a few years back. The fuel was leaking from the connectors feeding the injectors. All four were leaking and fuel was pooling around the injectors.paulbx wrote:Thanks folks - head under bonnet etc this weekend with bloodhound nose
I tweaked all the connectors and it was fine after that.
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Ive had a leak on my xsara hdi 90bhp, and getting the smell , My ones on 100,000 .
I removed the engine cover and saw desiel pooling aound the left hand side of engine (as you look at it from bumper) where 1st and 2nd injector is, run the engine and checked for leaks , fault seems to have been brass union nut underneath the long fuel accumaltor pipe (thinks thats whats its could ) have 4(feeding metal pipes) of them the 2nd from left was slightly lose just tightened up under 1/4 of turn seems to have solved will check after a few miles.
I will get/find me haynes manual and get the correct name .
I removed the engine cover and saw desiel pooling aound the left hand side of engine (as you look at it from bumper) where 1st and 2nd injector is, run the engine and checked for leaks , fault seems to have been brass union nut underneath the long fuel accumaltor pipe (thinks thats whats its could ) have 4(feeding metal pipes) of them the 2nd from left was slightly lose just tightened up under 1/4 of turn seems to have solved will check after a few miles.
I will get/find me haynes manual and get the correct name .
2.0 hdi xsara estate been a pain but starting to look like a good buy
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Nothing found so far had smell vanished (for now)
I'll again report back when I smelll / find a repeat!
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