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Siphon petrol from a newer car?

  • 09-08-2017 5:47pm
    #1
    sheepers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53 ✭✭


    I have a car that's gotta go to the scrapyard but has about €40 of petrol in the tank that I don't want to donate to the breakers.

    I tried siphoning it using a tube in the tank, but nothing doing. Maybe I'm doing it wrong, or maybe it's got an anti-siphoning device in the tank? It's a 01 Focus.

    Any suggestions for emptying the tank that wont carry a risk of me setting the thing on fire?!


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  • #2
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    sheepers wrote: »
    I have a car that's gotta go to the scrapyard but has about €40 of petrol in the tank that I don't want to donate to the breakers.

    I tried siphoning it using a tube in the tank, but nothing doing. Maybe I'm doing it wrong, or maybe it's got an anti-siphoning device in the tank? It's a 01 Focus.

    Any suggestions for emptying the tank that wont carry a risk of me setting the thing on fire?!

    take out the back seat, disconnect the out tube from the fuel pump and connect a 12 volt battery to the wires,


  • #3
    Isambard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,795 ✭✭✭Isambard


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    take out the back seat, disconnect the out tube from the fuel pump and connect a 12 volt battery to the wires,

    and stand well back.

    Focus has a device in it's tank to stop syphoning, they come complete with a nozzle you can insert, but yours and mine probably got lost a while back.


  • #4
    Sabre Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,029 ✭✭✭Sabre Man


    Have you tried asking the breakers for the money?


  • #5
    JohnBoy26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,532 ✭✭✭JohnBoy26


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    take out the back seat, disconnect the out tube from the fuel pump and connect a 12 volt battery to the wires,

    The focus has no access to the fuel pump from beneath the backseat though


  • #6
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    JohnBoy26 wrote: »
    The focus has no access to the fuel pump from beneath the backseat though

    Whoosh!


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  • #7
    jimbis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭jimbis


    If its being scrapped then jack it up, punch a hole in the bottom of the tank a little above its lowest point to avoid any dirt thats in there and fill up a fuel can.
    helps to have 2 so you can swap when one gets full, then pour contents of the full one into another car and have it ready to swap again.


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