On 14/04/2014 16:54, gareth wrote:
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On 13/04/2014 19:26, Bill Wright wrote:

Anyway, I think they had a vehicle with a faulty tank, so they'd emptied
it and were disposing of the petrol.

When my sons finally killed the Fiat Punto (hooray! so pleased to be shot
of the turd!) I syphoned the petrol out and into the Volvo. That involved
multiple trips with the two petrol cans I own, as the Fiat had just been
topped up when it was killed.

BTW, the best way to do that is to cut the fuel line and use the petrol
pump (conveniently hidden under the back seat) to pump the petrol into the
cans.


Except that then the petrol vapour, instead of bing in a closed environment,
is then in the same environment as electric sparks.

I agree. I did wonder whether I was going to blow the damn car up.

I powered the pump from a battery charger that I switched on/off at a
distance. I'd have preferred to siphon the petrol out, but the tank has
an anti-siphon device built-in.

It is not quite as bad as it sounds, because the petrol pump is inside
the car under the backseat, as I said, whilst I cut the fuel line under
the bonnet. The switching on and off of the battery charger was done in
the garage, some 30 feet away, using extension lead. Even so, it was a
fair amount of risk for £50 worth petrol.