hi there, My name is mike and I"m a newbie. Just purchase my first evo. I currently have 434 miles on her. I started to smell gas at stoplights and when I had the air conditioner on. I thought maybe this is the exhaust as these cars run rich( I think). But I was wrong. Yesterday I took the car to the body shop to have the trunk and hood repainted again, due to one stupid dealer detailer, who took a razor blade to the trunk to remove a decal. He put five razor cuts to the metal. anyways that 's another story. They said they smelled the gas as well. So we lifted the hood and started to look around and we found the gas was leaking around the fuel rail or injector. Just curious if anyone has had this same problem. Or just a freak thing that happened to me.

 

WOWW. You're lucky the car didnt catch on fire.

 

is this something common with the evo?

 

thats something that shouldnt be common with ANY car. What do you think would happen if the fuel hit a spark plug ? exactly. Call the dealer and tell them to come tow it (make sure its a flatbed).

 

Yeah that should never be a problem with any car. SOOOOOOO dangerous....This happened to my old 92 civic hatch lol

 

It happend to me last month, i pulled the fuel rail off right away and found that inj #1 had a crap Oring but my car is heavily modded. I was lucky to not catch on fire.

In your case.....Warranty warranty warranty! And yes, have the dealer tow it back to their shop.

 

thanks it is already being looked at as we speak.

 

get back to us cuz its kind of interesting that 400 miles on a brand new car and this happens. I would like to know what happened good luck

 

i will as soon as i know what happened

 

Good luck with your car. Let us know how everything goes.

Makes me wonder Mitsu's build quality Shoulda gotten a Subby or a Honda >=P

 

i had the samething happen on my 03 8, smelled gas and noticed it was coming from my fuel rail by the fuel reg. had it replaced under warranty.2 months later it leaked again from the same exact place,replaced again under warranty. 6 months down the road the same leak in the same spot again.This time i said screw the stock rail and bought a perrin fuel rail and never had a problem after that.

 

smelled something too when first bought but it was just steam coming out from the hood and no leaks.

 

i hate this ,I'm going into withdraw. Force to drive my VW jetta , or the 2006 honda odyssey

 

just found out .they said they ordered a o-ring for the fuel rail. so now i can't have my car until monday aaahhhhhhhhhhhh

 

wow that suckss but just look at it on two positive notes:

1) its gonna seem so fast when you get it back because youll have been driving a jetta or an odyssey all weekend.

2) it was all fixed under warranty