Siphoning petrol

Drive it until it's nearly empty.

HTH.

Presumably he's scrapping it? If there's an anti syphon doofus in the petrol filler perhaps you can knock a hole in it with a large screwdriver and hammer. Failing that break into the petrol pipe under the car. rejoin it with a short bit of hose and a couple of cable ties before taking it to the scrappers. Hang on a sec, it's an injection engine isn't it? Use it's own petrol pump to pump the petrol out of the car, remove the ptrol pipe where it would go into the injection pump or the fuel filter.

Its ok yo admit it, the cost of rising petrol is getting us all but "siphoning" is not the way to go my friend.

Do what the fudging scrotes do round here, either ram a screwdriver into the rubber pipe between the neck/downpipe & the tank, or ram the screwdriver through the tank. They then collect a gallon or so in a bowl & let the rest drain all over the drive. It costs them nothing for a gallon of petrol & costs the victim £100's for a new tank etc.

Alan...

When I put petrol into my diesel Mondeo I didn't have a problem pushing a rubber pipe into the tank via the filler.

Rob Graham

ISTR someone mentioned recently that Renault drivers are starting to have a problem with this due to use of plastic tanks / easy to pierce

- could be talking out of my arse of course though :-}

I managed it on a 1984 Polo when changing the tank.

Tell them that it is even easier with a blow lamp on a plastic tank. ;-)

Don't worry about it. New car models designed for 2010 will be single use disposable cars. They come with a full sealed tank of petrol, when the tank is empty, it's not economical to fill it again. Instead, you just dispose of the car and buy another one.

Peugeot have been using them for years, as I discovered when I broke my father-in-law's expired motor.

Many a truth said in jest - the price of the damn stuff atm...

The MK2 and I think MK1 Golf had blow moulded plastic tanks to save space but still give a decent sized tank...

That's what I'd try first. Second neatest method I've used was on a diesel 405, where I pressurised the tank with compressed air into the fuel return pipe. Might not be advisable for petrol though.

Indeed, my ex girlfriend died in a peugeot 205 that was rammed in the back, the fuel tank split and the whole thing went up in flames, maybe she would have lived if it hadn't caught fire, although she suffered many other injuries too.

That could have happened with a steel tank though; at least plastic tanks don't rust away and then leak like several metal tanks I've had.

on an almost new car the rust thing is unlikely. this is the only car I have seen where the car went up as a result of a ruptured tank, good case for diesels I suppose

"Mrcheerful" wrote in news:9LpRj.16978$ snipped-for-privacy@text.news.virginmedia.com:

All of my cars, including my 20 year Volvos have had plastic tanks, even my motorbikes have them now. The last vehicle I owned with a metal tank was a CZ175, and before that, a Triumph Dolomite. I thought plastic tanks would be safer in cases where the tank is deformed in a crash, they would bend rather than split. Terribly sorry to hear about your girl friend. I had a 205, and I think it's more to do with the size of the car rather than not having a metal tank.

Wasn't it the Ford Pinto in the US that got a very bad name in the

BobC

Wasn't it the Ford Pinto in the US that got a very bad name in the

ISTR that that was more due to Ford thinking a plastic fuel tank was as good as a steel one, more than where it was fitted. Mike.