"jim beam" <retard-trap@bad.example.net> wrote in message
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> Michael Pardee wrote:
>> "jim beam" <retard-trap@bad.example.net> wrote in message
>> news:d-2dnartW4RyUjvUnZ2dnUVZ_oHinZ2d@speakeasy.net...
>>> when a car starts, you have to dump gas because the motor is not warm,
>>> thus the fuel doesn't fully vaporize, thus you need excess gas to get
>>> sufficient vapor density to burn. if you dump gas, then turn the motor
>>> off? where is the gas now? in the inlet, and /not/ being sucked into
>>> the motor. so where does it go? it evaporates back out of the air
>>> intake. thus you smell gas!!!
>>>
>>> so that's all the o.p. is experiencing - a few seconds of excess gas
>>> because he hasn't warmed the motor. utterly trivial.
>>>
>>
>> Maybe so, but it still does not rule out a gasoline leak. The risk is too
>> great to just shrug it off.
>>
>> Mike
>
> well, the neighbor kid could have been stealing gas too and spilled some.
> or theoretically, the vehicle /could/ have been drilled by one of these:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weakly_...ssive_particle
>
> that actually /did/ interact precisely at an injector o-ring, and is
> subsequently just a bomb waiting to explode.
>
> but somehow i doubt it. just like i doubt fuel leak on a sub-year old car
> made by a manufacturer with an excellent track record on this stuff.
> especially when we're told that the car has been run for less than 60
> seconds and that we know about excess mixture on start-up, etc...
>
> seriously dude, look at the big picture and assign probabilities.
>
>
I'm most suspecting fuel injector failure - separation at the plastic/metal
junction. That can occur at any age and mileage, often shows up when cold
and may stop leaking when warm, and I've seen quite a few in my time...
including the one that set my Nissan on fire before I could put the new
injector in. On a nearly new car the possibility of a construction defect
can't be discounted either; that is why the warranty exists. I am not
advocating a witch hunt, just due diligence for something that can easily
send the car up in flames.

Personally, I would feel less silly looking for a leak than I would looking
at the charred remains and trying to answer the question, "why didn't you
check it out?" To each their own.

Mike