Poor Sweet Grrl

I guess she decided she wasn't getting enough attention. I get out of the car and see some sort of fluid on the ground leading to her. I look for the source and see a puddle right by the driver's side rear tire. Since she's a front wheel drive there's not much that could be. I grabbed some Whattman paper to do a check (by the time I got back out there the leakage was clearly visible, but I couldn't see exactly where it was coming from), and it's light yellow and smells, well, like gasoline. Call AAA, they tell me I need to call the fire department. Decide at this point that it's a touch over my head, go and talk to the facilities manager. He gets in touch with the landlord of the office park, who then calls the fire department. In the meantime I grab a plastic bin that won't get eaten by the gas, some absorbent padding and a pair of gloves. I sop up what I can with the padding, put the bin where I think the leak is (it had stopped by that point), and tossed padding and gloves into the bin (thankful that I automatically remove gloves so nothing on them gets on me). I also wrote a sign that said "Caution: Gasoline Leak" and put it on the rear window of my car. Fire department shows up, looks at sees that it isn't leaking anymore, pours kitty litter on what's left of the puddle and I call AAA. Give them the info, they tell me "within an hour" ("uhm, it's a gas leak and there's a fire truck sitting here" "yup, it'll be there within an hour" *sigh*). The poor fire folks and truck have to stay until the AAA guys opts to show. He does, and we push the car out of it's parking space so the truck can grab it from the front. It begins to leak again as we do this, but once it's up on the tow thingie it stops. I borrow some electrical tape from the fire folks and firmly attach my sign to the rear window. Everyone leaves at this point, and I get back to work. I had it towed to a local gas station shop that was recommended by the landlord's facilities guy, hopefully they'll get back to me soonish and have some sort of guesstimate on how much it'll cost to fix. I'm really hoping it's a gas line issue or a leaky O-ring and not the tank itself or the fuel pump. . .

Poor Sweet Grrl

I guess she decided she wasn't getting enough attention. I get out of the car and see some sort of fluid on the ground leading to her. I look for the source and see a puddle right by the driver's side rear tire. Since she's a front wheel drive there's not much that could be. I grabbed some Whattman paper to do a check (by the time I got back out there the leakage was clearly visible, but I couldn't see exactly where it was coming from), and it's light yellow and smells, well, like gasoline. Call AAA, they tell me I need to call the fire department. Decide at this point that it's a touch over my head, go and talk to the facilities manager. He gets in touch with the landlord of the office park, who then calls the fire department. In the meantime I grab a plastic bin that won't get eaten by the gas, some absorbent padding and a pair of gloves. I sop up what I can with the padding, put the bin where I think the leak is (it had stopped by that point), and tossed padding and gloves into the bin (thankful that I automatically remove gloves so nothing on them gets on me). I also wrote a sign that said "Caution: Gasoline Leak" and put it on the rear window of my car. Fire department shows up, looks at sees that it isn't leaking anymore, pours kitty litter on what's left of the puddle and I call AAA. Give them the info, they tell me "within an hour" ("uhm, it's a gas leak and there's a fire truck sitting here" "yup, it'll be there within an hour" *sigh*). The poor fire folks and truck have to stay until the AAA guys opts to show. He does, and we push the car out of it's parking space so the truck can grab it from the front. It begins to leak again as we do this, but once it's up on the tow thingie it stops. I borrow some electrical tape from the fire folks and firmly attach my sign to the rear window. Everyone leaves at this point, and I get back to work. I had it towed to a local gas station shop that was recommended by the landlord's facilities guy, hopefully they'll get back to me soonish and have some sort of guesstimate on how much it'll cost to fix. I'm really hoping it's a gas line issue or a leaky O-ring and not the tank itself or the fuel pump. . .