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"JohnW" > wrote in message
... > Soooo, the suggestion to find a fuel brand that doesn't generate a > noticable smell means finding one with low sulfur contamination. Too bad > you can't shop fuels and compare "ingredients" the way you can food in the > grocery store. Ok, I'll try Mobil on the next fill up folks! That's an > easy enough experiement! Maybe and maybe not. On a very, very cold day or if you make a bunch of short trips, the cat will run cold and can accumulate SOx. Then, when the weather warms up or you are on a longer trip and the cat is really working hard and starts releasing the SOx as H2S and SO3 AND you get downwind of the exhaust, there it is! Until all of the SOx is out of the gasoline, it can happen. The gas you got may or may not have been high in SOx. It could have been, or conditions were just right for the cat to adsorb more SOx then normal and then desorbed it as you caught a whiff. **** happens. -- John ThunderSnake #59 |
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"JohnW" > wrote in message ... > I've got about 500 miles on my GT since Saturday--can't help it--and have > begun to notice a rotton egg smell now and then in the cabin. I'm using > regular gas. Our 2003 Honda Accord V6 is REALLY bad this way too, and the > dealer says that's "normal". It mostly goes away in the Accord if you run > midgrade fuel, but gas is going up again. > > Anyone else notice this? Anyone running higher octane other than regular? [Following other replies.] I moved from a pretty dusty area to a clean area--then noticed the same thing. I thought it was the heater core at first. It went away when I closed the outside vents. In the end I decided it was the exhaust from other cars. I've been told it's worst when people mix brands of gas on a 1/2 full tank. I -John |
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Generic opined
> > I moved from a pretty dusty area to a clean area--then noticed the same > thing. I thought it was the heater core at first. It went away when I > closed the outside vents. In the end I decided it was the exhaust from > other cars. > > I've been told it's worst when people mix brands of gas on a 1/2 full > tank. I > I live in central Ohio and the ONLY time I have EVER smelled that rotten eggs was when I was behind an older GM car. At the time I enquired about that oddity, I was told it was because GM used a "bead" type catalyst rather than Ford's "honeycomb" -- - Yes, I'm a crusty old geezer curmudgeon.. deal with it! - |
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We used to have a carbureted car that had a cat, it would smell like
sulphur when it was new. Went away the older it got. I usually smell it on the freeway when driving behind newer cars that are driving spirited. This would match the description someone else gave, the heat is burning off the polution in the cats that accumulate under cold/slow driving. Question is; why do you smell it in your own car ? That doesnt' sound healthy, it would mean there's somehow exhaust comign into the cabin. Maybe have the trunks closing mechasnism checked out ? On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 12:58:02 GMT, Backyard Mechanic > wrote: >Generic opined > >> >> I moved from a pretty dusty area to a clean area--then noticed the same >> thing. I thought it was the heater core at first. It went away when I >> closed the outside vents. In the end I decided it was the exhaust from >> other cars. >> >> I've been told it's worst when people mix brands of gas on a 1/2 full >> tank. I >> > >I live in central Ohio and the ONLY time I have EVER smelled that rotten eggs >was when I was behind an older GM car. >At the time I enquired about that oddity, I was told it was because GM used a >"bead" type catalyst rather than Ford's "honeycomb" Remove NO-SPAM from email address when replying |
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I like Chevron and BP/Amoco. The "big three" like Chevron, too.
http://www.chevron.com/prodserv/fuel...cessbig3.shtml Also check out this site: http://www.toptiergas.com/ -sw |
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at 03 Feb 2005, Backyard Mechanic ] wrote in
: >> I've always assumed refining is refining and gas is gas. > WRONG!!! Yes and no. I have a buddy working at the port. If company A runs out, they'll call company B and have a few of their trucks load up there. Next week, the situation may be reversed. What makes the difference is the additives each brand puts in after the truck is loaded with gas. Case in point about 6 months back here in the Tampa area a batch of gas was unloaded and sold that had way too much sulfur in it. Causing sensors in gas tanks to go bad. The gas all came from one refinery in the same tanker but was sold by at least two (Shell & BP) if not more brands. **** hit the fan and the oil companies ended up paying for repairs on the cars affected. > I have only used Citgo once... and no telling where it really came > from... but the next week i had to rod out what was left of my > catalyst. I use either Citgo or Chevron and have had no issues whatsoever with any of our vehicles. Now if I use Racetrack, gas mileage goes down in any of our vehicles we put it in to. I've tried BP and Shell but they are generally $0.05 to $0.10 per gallon higher than Citgo and Chevron. We are getting a BP down the street. Maybe that one will be at a par pricewise with the local Citgo and Chevron stations. -- _ 1995 Mustang V6 Coupe (Bright Blue) |_| Member Modern Mustangs of North America (MMNA) http://mustang.fdns.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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