Diesel Thief????

Joshua J

So the feul cap on the sisters insignia was lying open the morning and have a feeling one of our local*cough* minorities *cough* was trying to siphon the tank but musta got spooked cause none taken. Just wondering does anybody use Locking Feul Caps and are they effective.

Ronnie Beck

Maybe your sister *cough* left it open at the petrol station *cough*

Joshua J

You don't know my sister, she'd have one of the lads do it. Thanks for your concern though.

Ronnie Beck

I have a locking cap on mine. I use it all the time for peace of mind. For vandalism as much as theft. I suppose it will only slow them down but will make racket if they try to wedge it off.

ian87

They drilled my dads petrol tank and drained it. Happened in a hotel car park believe it or not..

Bpmull

do opels not have that anti siphoning device in the fuel filler pipe. my astra does anyway and it is a pain when i am filling it as when the car starts to get full the diesel just runs out even well before the pumps knocks itself off. I thought this device would make it hard to siphon fuel i could be wrong.

Joshua J

OSI wrote: »

Is it not bloody difficult to open fuel flaps on modern cars without breaking them into bits? I know mine locks with the car and would need a crow bar to open.

I would have thought so. Anyway am working off second hand info will give it a closer look later.

Joshua J

ian87 wrote: »

They drilled my dads petrol tank and drained it. Happened in a hotel car park believe it or not..

Jesus:eek:

Joshua J

Bpmull wrote: »

do opels not have that anti siphoning device in the fuel filler pipe. my astra does anyway and it is a pain when i am filling it as when the car starts to get full the diesel just runs out even well before the pumps knocks itself off. I thought this device would make it hard to siphon fuel i could be wrong.

Could be why they left empty handed (if that's what happened).

triple-M

Joshua J wrote: »

So the feul cap on the sisters insignia was lying open the morning and have a feeling one of our local*cough* minorities *cough* was trying to siphon the tank but musta got spooked cause none taken. Just wondering does anybody use Locking Feul Caps and are they effective.

Bless you,maybe you should be more worried about getting a cough bottle rather than worrying about an open fuel cap

Bpmull

Joshua J wrote: »

Could be why they left empty handed (if that's what happened).

it could be as you cant actually stick a tube down my fuel filler as it just a metal insert with loads of holes around the sides which allows the diesel to drain in when filling up although it can be a pain sometimes.

alias no.9

ian87 wrote: »

They drilled my dads petrol tank and drained it. Happened in a hotel car park believe it or not..

believe it not I'm afraid, if it was a diesel I might believe it

ian87

alias no.9 wrote: »

believe it not I'm afraid, if it was a diesel I might believe it

Must. Not. Feed. The troll!

kennyplant

try locking the cap

MugMugs

ian87 wrote: »

They drilled my dads petrol tank and drained it. Happened in a hotel car park believe it or not..

Am I the only one thinking drill, sparks, petrol???? :eek:

Eric Cartman

MugMugs wrote: »

Am I the only one thinking drill, sparks, petrol???? :eek:

yes, but you thought about it, which is more than can be said for our more mobile citizens

Ronnie Beck

plastic tanks...

Kenny Logins

Ronnie Beck wrote: »

plastic tanks...

Yep, but drill motors can spark a bit. Can't say if it would ignite the petrol though.. need to give it a go to see...

repsol

I got a flat tyre one night last year on a dark road.There was an old car parked about 300m away from me and a garda car stopped and spent about 5 mins checking it out.As soon as they left, a guy who was hiding in the bushes climbed out carrying something which appeared to be heavy and loaded it into the boot.He then returned to his hiding place and came back with another similar item.I rang the Gardai and fair play the same car was back within a minute and they arrested yer man and took the stuff from the boot.The garda rang me later to say thanks and informed me that the guy was stealing diesel from cars and had over 100 litres in jerry cans in the car.

ian87

His car wasnt the only one to be done that night. According to the gardai it's fairly common. All the same an expensive thing to happen.

Ronnie Beck

Kenny Logins wrote: »

Yep, but drill motors can spark a bit. Can't say if it would ignite the petrol though.. need to give it a go to see...

Doubt it. Fairly hard to light petrol. They'd probably use a small almost silent cordless screwdriver or a hand drill.

MugMugs

Ronnie Beck wrote: »

Doubt it. Fairly hard to light petrol. They'd probably use a small almost silent cordless screwdriver or a hand drill.

You ruined our Hollywood explosion scene....

flazio

I'm pretty sure that Mythbusters showed that shooting a petrol tank doesn't spark an explosion, or even ignition.

bobin fudge

my petrol flap was broken and the cap stolen from my car leaving the flap open and no cap in the morning and no petrol, had to get one of those cheap looking things as in OP's link- has done the job so far but id rather the original!

bazz26

kennyplant wrote: »

try locking the cap

Epic first post.

dgt

MugMugs wrote: »

Am I the only one thinking drill, sparks, petrol???? :eek:

Nope. Done it on both metal and plastic tanks.

Our own stuff naturally

ThisRegard

How did they get the flap open if the car was locked?

MugMugs

ThisRegard wrote: »

How did they get the flap open if the car was locked?

Crowbar?

Atlantic Dawn

It's some amount of work to take at max around €100 of fuel if they are lucky enough to come across a full tank, I really don't believe people have become this desperate. It's very easy in a modern car to accidentally hit the fuel cap release lever, most likely cause.

Del2005

Joshua J wrote: »

You don't know my sister, she'd have one of the lads do it. Thanks for your concern though.

Perhaps the lad didn't put the lid back on.