Is the egg smell from the converter meant to happen all the time when an engine starts?
Jason
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Depends on many things.
What brand of fuel are you using? Some fuels are more 'eggy' than others....
Does the car get a decent run? Short trips exacerbate this smell, it can linger for a while, too.
What car have you got, Jason?
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What car have you got, Jason?
From his other post, it would appear to be a Honda Civic.
DL's right though Jason. Try another brand of petrol. The one you're currently using *probably* has a high sulphur content.
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Echo DD's comments. I run my Civic on Shell, Optimax usually - nothing eggy so far. Externally.
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Externally.......I like it!
Come on....tell the truth!
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I had a car with this once - assumed it was the cat but smell got worse. In the end discovered the alternator was overcharging the battery, new alternator and battery solved problem.
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Supermarket fuel and short runs give you this prop. Fill up with Shell , BP or Esso and give the car a good run. You will also find your MPG will improve more that the extra cost of the fuel, so ditch the Supermarket fuel. Regards Peter
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I use Shell at the moment, not Optimax however. Don't use my Civic 1.8 VTI for short runs if I can help it.
Can't smell anything with the fan switched off.
Just wondered what it was really. It's R reg so it doesn't have the new tech equpiment to stop this.
Regards,
Jason
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The people behind you should be catching a whiff of the "eggy" smell. You should only be able to smell it when stationary with the engine running after a journey. As for being able to smell it only with the fan on suggests the smell is coming from the engine bay - which could mean a slipping clutch.
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I had a similar problem with my first Volvo 440, carburettor and cat. The smell came most strongly when stopped at traffic lights, and smelled as though one of the kids had passed wind. It was so disgusting that my daughter looked silently but menacingly at her two sons.
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Supermarket fuel come from the same refinery and storage depot as regular branded fuels come from. The fuel is exactly the same, the only difference is that the fuel additives that vary from retailer to retailer are added at the point of delivery from a seperate tank on the tanker lorry. I have a BP refinery near me in south essex and i see tankers from Shell, BP, Jet, Total, Murco and supermarket branded tankers as well as outside hauliers, all loading from the same terminal.
So it does seem that not all fuels are different.
Pastyman..
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Are they loading from the same storage though? I mean...at my local brewery you can see Fosters & Courage lorries leaving, but that's not to say the contents are the same.
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It might be the same refinery, but that doesn't mean its the same product and all from the same part of the process. They differentiate between the various stages of refining, on the simplest level between diesel, kerosine, Jet fuel etc. Probably have different tanker take-offs for different octanes, and maybe dedictated quality level offtakes, which will depend on the treatment and blending processes. How to get rid of heavy ends and rubbish: give it to cheese-parers who don't specify high quality. Just guessing, and I have no knowledge of specific plants, but someone might unwittingly take the sulphur:)
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BMW had a well known problem in NW England due to the use of hi-suphur petrol.
The oil from which petrol is created has differing sulphur contents depending upon which oil field it came from. So the sulphur content can differ across the UK. In SE England oil is likely to be lo sulphur..
madf
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Reminds me of Saudi Arabia. Eggy smell from the gas there.
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