What's up everyone welcome back to the Durbin compound. If we're meeting for the first time my name is Devon Durbin. I'm here to bring you the tools tips and tricks to make you more self-sufficient. So today we're talking about a gas smell in the cabin of a C-300 W-205. So anywhere from 2015 to 2019 if you're experiencing gas in the cabin I've got some tips and things for you to look for. Now tell you how much my repair cost stayed tuned. Okay guys so the gas smell in my car only occurred when I sat idle. So if I was basically pulling up to a light and then taking off again it would not smell but if the car idled in a certain place for I'd say anywhere maybe up to five minutes you would start to get gas smell in the cabin. So it was relatively strong enough to the point where I said this is ridiculous I need to take it into the dealer and get it looked at. So what I'm going to show you are two places that you should look to see if you can diagnose it yourself so you can see exactly what's happening. It might be these two spots in your case and it's something that you could do yourself. If you don't have a lift it's going to be difficult. I chose to just have the dealer mess with it since it was already in for an alignment so I went ahead and had them take care of it. So initially I thought it was going to be covered under warranty but belts fuel lines consumables like that are not covered under warranty. So if you're certified pre-owned or the factory warranty this problem will not be covered under warranty. So I'll show you guys right now where it occurred for me. All right guys so now we're looking at the top of the engine I've taken the engine cover off and the place I want to steer you towards is the high pressure fuel pump which is underneath this shielding cover. If you really wanted to take this shielding cover off to look to see if you have any gas weeping here you can but there are two places to look. You have this braided hose over here you see this braided hose come down that is your low pressure fuel line coming into your fuel pump and then you have this hard line out here to your fuel rail. So those are two places to look to make sure you don't have any gas running down during idle and to make sure that those are dry. Now as with anything you can you can usually see when gas has started to weep and will start to stain and look white. So just look around these areas this is a problem point but I will show you the connector on the bottom side where I had my leak. Let's go underneath the car. Okay guys this takes no removal of any panels or anything like that underneath the car. So you want to scoot back up just behind the front panel that your oil change your panel for your transmission here for your transmission you know fluid change you don't need to take the panel off unless you can see some leakage here. So I'm going to try to get you here get you some better light here. All right so I'm going to attempt to zoom in on exactly what I'm talking about. This is your fuel line here coming from from the fuel pump here in the tank comes along the fuel rail and then you have this little connector here little rubber hose here. Now this is for vibration purposes this separates the hard line up here on your engine from the chassis. So you have this this line here. So these two connectors are where I had my leaking issue. So this is on the driver side just in front of where your feet would sit. So here is the test port. This little guy here is the test port and you can see the let's try to focus in better on it. Okay you can see the little knob. You can see the actually the little cover for the test port. So this connector that we're looking at right here is actually the issue where it was seeping fuel down on it. So it was basically seeping down this little rubber line and you could barely tell that it was actually leaking gas. So it takes very very little to get that smell but once you get that smell you can see exactly why this was sucked right up into the cabin. This is in your engine bay and your cabin air filter sucks air from your engine bay and boom right into your nostrils in the car. So it took very very little fuel to make a smell in the engine bay. So I hope this helps. If you've got any questions put them in the comments below and I'll try to answer them as much as as as much as I can but just for reference this is right by the front left wheel and right up underneath the cover. This transmission to the right fuel line to the left I think you can understand from there. So let's talk about how much this cost me. All right so it was easy to kind of diagnose it. I had no idea where I was looking initially so I'm glad that I did a little investigation. I had the dealer show me exactly where it was. Now am I glad that I had them do it? Yeah I mean I would have had to buy one of those crimp tools to put those bands on to make it legit. So I'm glad that they went ahead and did it. Now the dealer did take off $123. He kind of hooked me up. The service writer was willing to take care of me but let's go down exactly what this cost. So in labor alone $331.90 so they had to run the fuel line from the test port up to the engine that braided hose that I showed you. They ran a new one up to my high pressure fuel pump and then they replaced that the what do you want to call it? That rubber hose on the bottom. So labor was a little intensive. I really didn't I'm glad I didn't do it myself but I could have it would have just been a pain in the butt. Now the parts were only $84.10. So you have to figure out is it worth it for you to get underneath the car and or fix it? You know you're going to be into it pretty you know pretty extensively. I don't know exactly how many hours of labor that is. It's not broke down on the sheet but it all in all it would have cost me $415 but the dealer hooked it up and I came out of there with $292.60. So not too shabby. The fuel hose cost $31.60. The other fuel hose is $32.50 and they charge me $10 for two loom ties. So I mean that's a little ridiculous but it is what it is. If you want the dealer fix it and they do it like they should it's going to cost you some cash. So not too bad but they replace the fuel hose from the mainline to the test board and from the test board to the high pressure pump. So I hope you guys got some information from this video. Of course if you have any questions or concerns put them in the comments below. 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