I have good day's and bad day's. Sometimes
the car runs great and makes me happy. On other
day's for some reason every problem will come out
like poor idle, fuel smell , and rattles upon rattles everywhere and slugish performance ect..
I like the car and consider myself lucky not to have any severe issues yet like atx failing or blown engine. I'm still on my stock wp at 60k (knocks on wood) Seems like some people have
worse reliability than others. I feel your pain.
I have had mine in the dealer three times at different dealers for a fuel smell in the engine bay but the ford techs cant find anything meanwhile my car smells like a old gassy pinto.
probably my injector o-rings failing since i have replace everything else. One thing that does make me happy to drive it is.....Its almost paid off!
About that fuel smell... I had that fuel smell for the longest time too, and you know what I found? There is this vent hose on the top of the gas tank that is for when you fill the tank it lets the vapors escape out the filler nozzle. Well that little 3/4 diameter vent hose running along the big filler hose had a split in it right where it hooks to the tank. When you get the fuel smell, can you go back by the pass side rear door, duck down and smell it there (as well as inside the cabin)? Just one thing to check... Anyways, another thing to check is the charcoal canister and it's hose connections. The reason you only smell it sometimes, is because the when the temp is on the rise, vapors want to escape the tank, and when temp is cooling down, air is sucked into the tank. Also, if you just filled the tank, there is more splash coming out of the tank, as opposed to when the tank is nearly empty. My little vent hose fix cost 5 bucks to repair (used a molded heater hose as an aternative hose that had correct dimensions)
