LOL... No I am serious. I just drove from Winter Park to Denver in a blizzard and had to keep passenger window down half way.I've had passengers complain. >
Blizzard? That explains it. Lactose intolerance. DQ stuff is murder. Seriously though, you might be sensitive to one of the volatiles outgassing in the interior, have a serious malfunction involving a fuel or exhaust leak, or perhaps you collected a plastic bag or similar with your exhaust. Has anyone else experienced this in your van? Do you have access to a canary?
No passengers so no other complaints. I did have a bin package installed (Bulkhead and shelves) and drilling into floor in several locations was done. I guess it's possible they could have hit a line or something. I'll get under van and check it out.
What does it smell like?
Same here. Thinking of venting rear door. I don't want to add a vent to the roof as it would end up snagging everything I'm sure. Mowers and blowers and atvs stink up and the fumes stick to the walls and seats especially from a two-stroke.I have fumes... but it's from the dirt bike that is in the back. Seriously, I need to come up with a way to vent the whole van out some rear exit. On my list of many things I would like to get done.
You two might think about venting out the bottom of the rear pillars. One of the members here made an air plenum above the doors, with fans, and ran flex duct down through the pillars, and out the approx. 3 1/3 x 5 inch holes under the van (they come with large, flat plugs). One issue to watch for if you use the right side, is proximity to the exhaust outlet. You also have to figure out a way to close everything off, when fan function is not needed.
OK, I found one 1/2 inch hole that was drilled in floor for bin package that was not used. It was on driver side near the very back. I didn't think that sealing it with silicone would fix the fumes issue but it did!! The interior of van must act like a vacuume and was sucking in some of the exhaust. I wonder why FORD stopped the exhaust pipe way short of the rear of Van? Anyway I'm going to seal all the drill type nuts that were put in. At least the ones I can access from under the van.
That has concerned me as well- wasn't sure if all Transits were that way or just the extended length ones.
My Sprinter was the same way, when I had the exhaust replaced the shop rerouted the pipe straight out the side, but honestly had no fumes in the cabin.
I'm going to pick up a carbon monoxide detector today and install it. I'm going to try it in a few different places to make sure all is safe. If one half inch hole was letting in the fumes that was making me sick then I'm checking into this further.
My Transit 250 is a short wheel base so I guess it's this way on all of them.
