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I recently purchased a used 2005 Equinox and it started giving me some troubles over the last couple of days. I'm very mechanically inclined and I do all of the maintenance and mechanical work on all of my own vehicles. The one in questions is my girlfriends daily so I need to get this right. After short trips and hot starts, it has trouble starting. Today, she tried starting it after a 40 minute break and it took 5 separate cranks to get it going and after was running the RPM's would dip and come back up at around 1000 and dip again until it finally evened out. It also smelled like gas pretty badly for the entire ride home (about 5 miles). I took the car to go get dinner tonight and it did the same thing to me but not as bad. It only took a second time to start for me but I was only out of the car for less than 5 minutes but again, it smelled like gas bad. Any help would be great. I'm just trying to fix it so it runs right. Thanks in advanced.
-David
-David