why does my car smell of petrol?

[george626]

I filled up my car last week and ever since there has been a strong smell of petrol coming from inside the car. Any ideas? Is this dangerous? Its an R reg Fiesta 98000 miles....

[meglet]

Might be a small leak somewhere. Have you noticed the fuel indicator going down? It might just be that some spilled somewhere when you last filled up.

Best get it checked out anyway.

[lilithvamp]

Although this is a fairly new car, it sounds as though you may have a small split/leak in the fuel lines.Exhaust fumes can also give out a petrol smell inside the car.It would be well worth getting it checked out!

[trevHCS]

If you're getting petrol fumes in the car then yes - very dangerous considering all the electrics inside there. It doesn't take a lot of petrol to cause a massive explosion and you don't want to be in there when it happens. I almost was a few years back.

As forr R reg with 98K being fairly new - erm, compared to a model T I guess. ;)