# 97 Volvo station wagon, gas smell when I first start it sometimes

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/97-volvo-station-wagon-gas-smell-when-i-first-start-it-sometimes/46024>\
**Category:** Power/Fuel\
**Tags:** v90, volvo, gasoline\
**Created:** [March 13, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/97-volvo-station-wagon-gas-smell-when-i-first-start-it-sometimes/46024 "2010-03-13T18:45:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![ianvlokewurth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7cd45c/32.png) [@ianvlokewurth](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ianvlokewurth)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/97-volvo-station-wagon-gas-smell-when-i-first-start-it-sometimes/46024/1 "2010-03-13T18:45:07Z")

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Two things are happening which may or may not be related. I am an average driver. Car has 160,000 miles and looks perfectly clean inside and out including engine.  
  
 1. in the last 4 months, sometimes when I first start the car I smell gas fumes for a few minutes. 2. When my gas light comes on I put in 2 gallons of gas and the light comes on again in 13 miles (I have repeated this at least 10 times) so a few days ago I put some GUNK fuel injector cleaner and my milage is way better. 26 miles for two gallons of gas.

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**Author:** ![ianvlokewurth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7cd45c/32.png) [@ianvlokewurth](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ianvlokewurth)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 12:10am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/97-volvo-station-wagon-gas-smell-when-i-first-start-it-sometimes/46024/2 "2010-03-15T00:10:48Z")

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My car looks like this one