Syphoning fuel

veryintrigued

Whats the best way please?

Is it still a clear plastic piece of hosing and suck a little?

Selling a car and need to retrieve half a tank!!

Cheers in advance!!

Weird_Nev

Very hard to do safely and cleanly!

Most cars have anti siphon traps in the filler neck.

It's often easier to take the hatch off the fuel tank and do it that way. Depends on the model of the car. It will make the interior smell of fuel for a bit though. (i.e. a day or two)

Use a pump to generate the siphon, a mouth full of fuel is NOT fun.

fivetide

Lot of effort for the money.

The car off the the scrappers of does your bum squeak when you walk?

Norman_Castle

If you have a long clear pipe try it. Watch for the fuel in the pipe so you know when to stop sucking.

Selling a car and need to retrieve half a tank!!

We believe you.

marleyboy

You can buy syphon pumps, but as someone else has stated, most cars now have anti syphon traps to stop fuel theft, a small mesh within the fuel filling pipe which stops any tube or piping from syphoning off the tank.

Herzlos

Can't you use the car for a while and use it up, or sell it with the half tank? It's presumably only worth about £30 tops.

veryintrigued

Thank God for you forum members. Never knew about this anti syphon mesh!!

Car is up on ebay so have a week to use the petrol - normally takes me a month.

Was a quick(ish) decision to list due to getting cheesed off with fault after fault (all included in the listing!

Thanks for the replies ladies and gents

veryintrigued

fivetide wrote: »

Lot of effort for the money.

The car off the the scrappers of does your bum squeak when you walk?

I seem to have mistaken this for a moneysaving site.:rotfl:

fivetide

veryintrigued wrote: »

I seem to have mistaken this for a moneysaving site.:rotfl:

There's moneysaving and then there is removing the lightbulbs when you sell a house hah hah

I'd be going with the use the car as a run about for a few days. You'll burn it up. If there is a quarter of a tank in it then it's no great loss at all :beer:

westwood68

I had to siphon a 1/2 tank out of my diesel Xantia last week after putting petrol in*. It's from 1998 and even that had an anti-siphon device so I ended up having to use the manual primping pump to get it all out. You could try that if it's a diesel. Easy to do but very laborious.

*A lesson for the veg oil burners. If you only ever visit a filling station to fill a bike with petrol then have an emergency trip to make in the car but not enough filtered oil, be very careful when you take the car to put some dino in....

iltisman

If you do get a mouthful of petrol it will make all the tartar fall off your teeth, downside is it can give you cancer.