Smell of fumes

Post by **alexperkins** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 8:50 pm

Hi all,

Got my car back today after its 70k service (although its done 43k

but whatever). Had the cambelt changed and the fluids etc etc.

But since having it back, theres an awful smell of fumes coming into the car via the airvents when the fan is on. I usually drive with it set to 1 on the fan so its on most of the time, and I have never smelt this before.

Has anyone got an idea of what it could be and how I can fix it? (I thought it might be the airfilter, as that was last changed in 04?)

Cheers,

Alex

Oddgy · Post by **Oddgy** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:44 pm

Alex, id take it straight back to who did the service mate!

Post by **alexperkins** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:47 pm

Might just do that. It was a VW dealership too! In fact, where I bought the car from. Will go down there tomorrow if I can still smell it!

Cheers,

Alex

Arnoldo · Post by **Arnoldo** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:10 pm

I get that smell but my crankcase breather is on its own air filter. Check its still plugged into ur air box.

Post by **alexperkins** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 10:29 am

Took it into VW this morning. Turns out when they fitted the new cambelt, they did not reconnect the airbox properly. The crank case breather pipe wasnt connected - therefore pumping it all into the car!

Cheers,

Alex

Arnoldo · Post by **Arnoldo** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:06 am

alexperkins wrote:Took it into VW this morning. Turns out when they fitted the new cambelt, they did not reconnect the airbox properly. The crank case breather pipe wasnt connected - therefore pumping it all into the car!

Cheers,

Alex

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