Miata Mailing List: September 1992, Message #19
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   From: (none)
Subject: Re: gasoline aroma in trunk
   Date: (none)

> Yes, I too have noticed the gas smell  -- and it doesn't
> take two weeks to permeate any clothing in there, more
> like two hours.  I don't suppose there is anything that
> can be done about it.
I had to have some bodywork done on the left rear of the car
some time back, and I think I remember the drain tube for the
the gas filler compartment running down inside the trunk and out
through a hole in the bottom of the trunk.  I've never experienced
the smell, but if this tube were loose, cracked, plugged, or
not exiting outside the trunk, I could see where you might get
a small amount of gas in the trunk when filling up.  It doesn't
take much gasoline to stink up a trunk as small as the miata's.

Steve Grossman
Software Engineer