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<blockquote data-quote="Robert M" data-source="post: 15403500" data-attributes="member: 9628"><p>When I bought my 2000 Cobra R in 2003 it had less than 20 original miles with the fuel that had been put in it in 2000. The fuel stank and the car ran like crap. I put some new fuel in it and drove it gingerly around my neighborhood and it began to clean up within a short period of time. I never had an ECM code.</p><p></p><p>Now that we are talking about fuel and R-Models (1995 and 2000)......</p><p></p><p>Has the fuel cell bladder been replaced in your car? I forgot to warn you about that............if not, put away some $$$ for the bladder replacement. Some people get more years and some less, but it is a continuous thing with the fuel cells and last I heard, it is a $2000 or more repair, it was $1600 for me with my 95R 8 years ago. That is one reason why I sold my 1995 and 2000 R-Models..........</p><p></p><p>The first sign is walking out into the garage and smell raw fuel.............strong smell. At first the lawn mower comes to mind, and once you investigate you realize the raw fuel smell is not by the lawn mower, then you search further and find a slow drip and a puddle of fuel at the right front of the fuel cell, at the weep hole, then you know the bladder is bad and the fix it to pull the fuel cell and replace the bladder (as long as it is available) for an oem install of that type. The uncontained liquid fuel in the garage, that is bad, but the evaporated fuel that is just waiting for a spark, that is the real bad stuff. Be aware.....</p><p></p><p>If you search back in this Cobra R forum, I started a thread called "The dreaded drip", and I think I also added "tick, tick, tick" in the title because all of the fuel cells are on a clock from the first fuel to be installed in a new bladder to the start of the dreaded drip.............Here was my first sign, after the raw fuel smell..........</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]693918[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>^^^This 95R had approx. 600 original miles on it and was approx. 11 years old when the drip started.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>R</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Robert M, post: 15403500, member: 9628"] When I bought my 2000 Cobra R in 2003 it had less than 20 original miles with the fuel that had been put in it in 2000. The fuel stank and the car ran like crap. I put some new fuel in it and drove it gingerly around my neighborhood and it began to clean up within a short period of time. I never had an ECM code. Now that we are talking about fuel and R-Models (1995 and 2000)...... Has the fuel cell bladder been replaced in your car? I forgot to warn you about that............if not, put away some $$$ for the bladder replacement. Some people get more years and some less, but it is a continuous thing with the fuel cells and last I heard, it is a $2000 or more repair, it was $1600 for me with my 95R 8 years ago. That is one reason why I sold my 1995 and 2000 R-Models.......... The first sign is walking out into the garage and smell raw fuel.............strong smell. At first the lawn mower comes to mind, and once you investigate you realize the raw fuel smell is not by the lawn mower, then you search further and find a slow drip and a puddle of fuel at the right front of the fuel cell, at the weep hole, then you know the bladder is bad and the fix it to pull the fuel cell and replace the bladder (as long as it is available) for an oem install of that type. The uncontained liquid fuel in the garage, that is bad, but the evaporated fuel that is just waiting for a spark, that is the real bad stuff. Be aware..... If you search back in this Cobra R forum, I started a thread called "The dreaded drip", and I think I also added "tick, tick, tick" in the title because all of the fuel cells are on a clock from the first fuel to be installed in a new bladder to the start of the dreaded drip.............Here was my first sign, after the raw fuel smell.......... [ATTACH=full]693918[/ATTACH] ^^^This 95R had approx. 600 original miles on it and was approx. 11 years old when the drip started. R [/QUOTE]
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