Carrying fuel cans in your car

I have been researching the legality of carrying a spare fuel can in my car since someone said it was illegal.
Where I live, and probably everywhere, it is legal to carry less than 30L of gasoline in a jerry can in your car. I have been safely within regulations with 10L. At any rate, I had never run into any legal issues with carrying it in my car.

My problem was with gasoline vapors escaping the can in warm weather. Other people have remarked about a faint odor of gasoline in my car, something to which I had become a bit "nose-blind" or accustomed to the odor and not noticing it. I tried deodorizers and heavier duty fuel cans, but the problem persisted. I believe the gasoline eventually migrates through the plastic. I have mitigated the problem somewhat by using a heavy metal can with a tight seal. I am still detecting a very faint odor of gasoline at times, but nothing like before, and certainly not a problem at all. I have placed the can in a cardboard box, also containing charcoal pads, which have reduced the odor considerably.

 

My 10L metal fuel can was not cheap, it cost me $53, (and was from Aliexpress no less).
It was the second one I got which leaked. I returned the first one, but I decided to repair the second one myself. I knew about a product called "fuel tank sealer" or something similar, but it was quite expensive and only available in a large container in my area. I used a mixture of acetone and Seal-All, which I spread around inside the can, and left it outside to evaporate. It seems to have worked, but perhaps I will give it a second coat some day.

 

How do you get it to pour into the fuel filler?

 

I just thought of it, a funnel. I like mine with a pour spout integrated.

 

Mine performs well enough for "cheap Chinese junk." Not everything made in China is substandard. It's just that they sometimes have to build down to a price for their clients. Mine was a good effort at that.

 

I like my chances with it inside the car.

 

I can't see myself spilling gasoline inside my car. I deserve a little credit.