Fuel / exhaust smell in cabin
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2019 8:39 pm
On most journeys when coming to a stop, with or without air recirculation on, we're still getting exhaust smell in the cabin (raised another post about this but didn't get reaction as had said I'd follow up after it'd been into dealer).
The dealer are struggling to reproduce, still. I've been in a number of times and sure enough struggled, but have provided more accurate ways to reproduce - even been there and have staff experience the smell (although now they claim it was just a smell they couldn't ascertain rather than exhaust per se).
I'm posting in hope someone else is experiencing this, or comes across it. We have a 20MY Si4 (Petrol). We have had the same engine in a cover car, it had the same issue. We are now in a TD6, also has the same issue. All MY20s.
If anyone that hasn't experienced it is able to test run, here are some steps which tend to always result in the issue:
1. Run the car with Temp set to Low. This forces air recirculation on.
2. Drive for a period of time (20-30 mins should do it).
3. Before coming to a stop, have fan set to half speed (about 5/6 pips), and turn temp to 16 degs (this should turn recirculation off).
4. Remain with car running, smell usually occurs within 10-20s of stopping.
5. If smell doesn't occur, give the car a good hard rev (7k in Si4, 5-6k in Td6), then wait 10-20s to see if smell occurs. Repeat.
We've basically been told that it's costing them money to look at the car, and they're not being paid to, so since they can't see a visible leak that they'll have JLR tech come out to the car, and if they can't fault it on that occasion then I'll need to pick it up with customer services. I can't see how that'll go in my favour "Has it been to a dealer to investigate" "Yes, they couldn't fault it" "Bye bye"
If you did/can experience the issue in the past, any ideas?
The dealer are struggling to reproduce, still. I've been in a number of times and sure enough struggled, but have provided more accurate ways to reproduce - even been there and have staff experience the smell (although now they claim it was just a smell they couldn't ascertain rather than exhaust per se).
I'm posting in hope someone else is experiencing this, or comes across it. We have a 20MY Si4 (Petrol). We have had the same engine in a cover car, it had the same issue. We are now in a TD6, also has the same issue. All MY20s.
If anyone that hasn't experienced it is able to test run, here are some steps which tend to always result in the issue:
1. Run the car with Temp set to Low. This forces air recirculation on.
2. Drive for a period of time (20-30 mins should do it).
3. Before coming to a stop, have fan set to half speed (about 5/6 pips), and turn temp to 16 degs (this should turn recirculation off).
4. Remain with car running, smell usually occurs within 10-20s of stopping.
5. If smell doesn't occur, give the car a good hard rev (7k in Si4, 5-6k in Td6), then wait 10-20s to see if smell occurs. Repeat.
We've basically been told that it's costing them money to look at the car, and they're not being paid to, so since they can't see a visible leak that they'll have JLR tech come out to the car, and if they can't fault it on that occasion then I'll need to pick it up with customer services. I can't see how that'll go in my favour "Has it been to a dealer to investigate" "Yes, they couldn't fault it" "Bye bye"
If you did/can experience the issue in the past, any ideas?