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 Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 5:35 am |
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Joined: Sep 02, 2011
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Location: Penarth
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My 206 is stalling intermittently when stopping. The air filter is wet with a strong smell of petrol.
How can petrol get into the air filter box?
Could this be causing the stalling?
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 9:28 am |
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if your engine is starved of air yes, put another filter in.
The petrol can only have gone into your filter backwards from your intake as if you have a normal filter housing it sucks air up from underneath the car, so unless you have driven through petrol somehow?
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:03 am |
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Hi
Thanx for your reply.
Due to the fuel injection system is it possible for fuel to come backwards.
I think the problem may be my local back street garage, they had the car recently, I wonder if they have poured fuel into the filter box for some reason. I have replaced the filter and will check it after a few days to see if there is any fuel in there again.
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:43 pm |
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Unless there's something seriously wrong with your engine and petrol is leaking from injectors and through the manifold, which I have no idea whether this is possible, and frankly doubt it, I think you just have a spillage on your filter.
When your driving your sucking enough air through to keep the engine alive but sat at idle it will only take a small amount through the ICV, and so is getting starved.
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:45 pm |
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Failing that you might have just thought you could smell petrol and it was actually just water?
Try setting fire to the filter! (joke!)
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