How often do you smell the traffic fumes or the car in front
Poll: How often do you smell the traffic fumes or the car in front
Total Members Polled: 129
Discussion
Hello all,
This is just out of interest, i have noticed that i can smell what smells like fumes fairly regularly at the moment and it has coincided with having a significantly longer, more urban commute. My concern is that its my own car letting in the fumes from a leaky exhaust or something, i just cannot decide how often i could expect to be able to smell outside traffic fumes! Hence the poll!
If your commute / drive is only 5 minutes long, or you live in the highland and only share the road with sheep, deer and pine martins, this is not particularly relevant
TIA
Jimmy
This is just out of interest, i have noticed that i can smell what smells like fumes fairly regularly at the moment and it has coincided with having a significantly longer, more urban commute. My concern is that its my own car letting in the fumes from a leaky exhaust or something, i just cannot decide how often i could expect to be able to smell outside traffic fumes! Hence the poll!
If your commute / drive is only 5 minutes long, or you live in the highland and only share the road with sheep, deer and pine martins, this is not particularly relevant
TIA
Jimmy
Edited by jimmy156 on Wednesday 9th January 18:23
Great typo, my 2 year old is sick after 15 minutes so I smell the car infant quite regularly.
On a serious note I have been noticing in the last year or two that the cabin filter tends to get overwhelmed and I can smell diesel fumes much more quickly than it used to. E.g. an activated carbon/charcoal filter seeing breakthrough after maybe 5000-6000 miles (supposed to be an annual service item every 12,000 or when the car says so, never had an issue before).
Maybe try a new cabin filter first and see if that clears it up. They're only about a tenner.
On a serious note I have been noticing in the last year or two that the cabin filter tends to get overwhelmed and I can smell diesel fumes much more quickly than it used to. E.g. an activated carbon/charcoal filter seeing breakthrough after maybe 5000-6000 miles (supposed to be an annual service item every 12,000 or when the car says so, never had an issue before).
Maybe try a new cabin filter first and see if that clears it up. They're only about a tenner.
2gins said:
Great typo, my 2 year old is sick after 15 minutes so I smell the car infant quite regularly.
On a serious note I have been noticing in the last year or two that the cabin filter tends to get overwhelmed and I can smell diesel fumes much more quickly than it used to. E.g. an activated carbon/charcoal filter seeing breakthrough after maybe 5000-6000 miles (supposed to be an annual service item every 12,000 or when the car says so, never had an issue before).
Maybe try a new cabin filter first and see if that clears it up. They're only about a tenner.
I've found this. Sadly on my Volvo it's an absolute three ring circus to change.You don't have notice the lack of it in a car without one though.On a serious note I have been noticing in the last year or two that the cabin filter tends to get overwhelmed and I can smell diesel fumes much more quickly than it used to. E.g. an activated carbon/charcoal filter seeing breakthrough after maybe 5000-6000 miles (supposed to be an annual service item every 12,000 or when the car says so, never had an issue before).
Maybe try a new cabin filter first and see if that clears it up. They're only about a tenner.
That sickly, choking stench of diesel fumes is everywhere in European cities. The clutless f
kwits who decided to build a tax regime to force everyone into them should have to spend all day every day sitting in a deckchair on the Euston road until the fking things are finally gone from the streets or they die of lung cancer, whichever come first.Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area said:
I only smell the car infant when my daughter’s in the car and has farted
The stench of a full nappy after a Happy Meal or similar can be reduced if one has a panoramic sunroof and a strong stomach 
As for the car in front, in a Ford, nearly all the time as it seems the intake vents are near the car in front's exhaust, so in the Transit Connect I hit the re-circulation button... for whatever reason, it switches off after a short while, making you press it again. Funny enough the A/C button is always on
Multiple times a day in London. Pre-Euro 6 diesels really stink. Some of them must have the DPF delete of whatever. Was following a right stinker the other day and literally had to pull over and let it get ahead. There was soot all over the bumper and rear lamp cluster. Disgusting. When I walk or cycle I also get lungfuls. Had another one today on the bike. The first was an 05 Audi A3 diesel the second an 03 Merc E320 CDI.
If it's a commercial vehicle I just shrug because they've always done that. But when the private cars waft their stink over me it pisses me off.
If it's a commercial vehicle I just shrug because they've always done that. But when the private cars waft their stink over me it pisses me off.
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