Petrol fumes - alarm!

I recently put an almost empty plastic petrol can in the back of my L322 Range Rover, with the intention of filling it up the next time I fuelled up the car.

The inside of the car smelled strongly of petrol.

One day, the alarm went off for no reason. I reset it and locked the car. A coup,e of hours later, it went off again. This time, started the car to chaeck for any computer faults with the "CHECK" function and found nothing. I locked her up and everything was OK.

The next day, the alarm went off again. I removed the petrol can and left the doors open for a while, then locked the car.

Since then, everything has been fine.

I can only assume that the build up of fumes inside the vehicle triggered the alarm sensor.

What do you guys think???

Thats a strange one, mybe the motion sensors were sensing the fumes from the can

i think i'd go for coincidence, sounds more plausable

I agree, but it had never happened before and has not happened since.

I might just put the petrol container back in and see what happens.

Stay tuned folks!

I was talking bollocks!

The bonnet wasn't closed properly.

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