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Problems.

The car has been sitting for the past two days, and the temperature has been around 30-40 degrees.

Went to go crank it up today and it started right up, but there is a VERY strong smell of fuel, and smoke was coming out of the tailpipes.

After about 5-10 minutes the smoke/smell went away, but what gives?..


Oil smells a little "Fuely"

No water though.

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Noone?..

Also, I know this should go in the performance section, sorry.

Made it out of desperation.

surferlife

your cars gonna run a little rich on a cold start til it gets to operating temp. dont worry about it.

UTSC300

iTrader: (4)

i get the fuel smell daily , its been an average 0 to 10 degrees at night around here. can't tell if I get smoke, too damn cold. lol

Belement

I agree on a cold start up both my cars the 300 and the 400 start up rich, the sc300 smells richer but after getting car up to temp no problems

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Gah.

Alright.

Also, just added: Oil smells a little "Fuely"

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Come on now, bump.

Kohinoor

iTrader: (22)

sounds normal

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Bump for more insight.

Still worried as hell.

I think I'm going to my buddies shop to do a leakdown test to see whats up.

Dx3

iTrader: (13)

No need for that. Completely common among all of my Lexus's. They run rich at high idle, when you first start the car. Just relax

Jonny

shern

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Just replaced injector seals on my beater due to fuel leaking overnight while the car was at rest and puddling on the intake.

I found it by sniffing around my engine compartment one morning and I pinpointed the exact injector that was leaking.

surferlife

seriously though. take into account the circumstances. "30 to 40 degrees". obviously ur car is going to take longer to warm up in the winter time than the summer time because of the temperature that the motor is when it is started. "5-10 mins." sounds about right for a warm up time, and ur car is going to do what it can to warm up in that amount of time. . please, just dont worry about it!

DryBlaze

Its normal but my car run rich so I smell like a driving gas station and flames shoot out of my exhaust when I let off sometimes...

crx378

yep common early morning smell, ahhhhhh octane!

durtysc300

this happens to me every morning at startup i let it sit for 7-10 minutes let it warm up to idle and it runs fine