** How can I drain Petrol out of 172**

[paddymph]

after my car being sat at Reno for 4 days now, they havent even managed to look at it yet, Im thinking of draining the petrol and putting some fresh peccy in.

Problem is how do i take the petrol out? Is there a drain plug or something?

cheers, could do with the help on this one as its really doing my nut in now

 

[Hippychick]

Put ur foot down !!!! LOL

Sorry couldnt resist !!!

 

[Tom]

there should be a drain plug in the tank but youd need a ramp

 

[Dust]

^^^ Dam! Beat me to it!

 

[Simon172]

sorry to be nosey - but whats wrong with 4-day-old petrol?

I had to remove all the petrol from my old scirocco as water had gotten into the tank via a rusty filler pipe and the carb had LIMESCALE in it! oh dear. Serious steam boat. Anyway, we pumped out the petrol using a hand pump and it took bloody hours!

Under the rear seats is a black cover, remove that and youre into the sender unit for the tank - thats where it was on my scirocco and i can only guess its there on thet clio (black cover)

Good luck and happy pumpin! you can appreciate how heavy half a tank (thats how much was in mine) of fuel is! put it this way - pretty darn hard to lift once the barrel was about 1/4 full!

 

[Fred@BTM]

Quote: Originally posted by Simon172 on 01 October 2003


sorry to be nosey - but whats wrong with 4-day-old petrol?

yeah, why do you need to drain the tank?????

 

[MaLicE]

stick a pipe in the petrol filler bit and give it the bj of your life.

 

[Tom]

Quote: Originally posted by Fred2001Dynamic on 01 October 2003

Quote: Originally posted by Simon172 on 01 October 2003


sorry to be nosey - but whats wrong with 4-day-old petrol?

yeah, why do you need to drain the tank?????



its full of sh*t dreggy fuel

 

[Pete]

Hose pipe and syphon it out!

 

[paddymph]

i tanked it on optimax and it fecked it up. i think.

its badly misfiring..... hardly driveable.

 

[adiclio16v]

u sure u didnt put diesel init lol

think id take the fuel hose off where it fits onto the fuel filter and stick a 12v supply straight onto the fuel pump to pump it out

adi

 

[paddymph]

where am i gonna pump £35 quids worth too?

 

[visceral]

at todays prices a 3L coke bottle should do!!!!

 

[Pete]

Beg/borrow/steel a few jerry cans!

 

[Viv172]

Quote: Originally posted by paddymph on 01 October 2003


i tanked it on optimax and it fecked it up. i think.

its badly misfiring..... hardly driveable.

optimax wont feck it up, there must be some thing else wrong??

 

[paddymph]

off petrol WOULD break it, it happened the minute i filled up....

 

[Rich-D]

Quote: Originally posted by MaLicE on 01 October 2003

stick a pipe in the petrol filler bit and give it the bj of your life.

Most new cars have anti-syphon valves now mate...

 

[Pete-W]

always a pain, but could just be coincidence and sending you off on a total tangent! happened to me on a few things b4!!

 

[Simon172]

have you complained to the garage where you filled it up? its probably got loadsa water in it. Thats what happened to my scirocco (but as i said earlier it couldve been the big old hole in the filler pipe). Maybe there was a leak into the tanks at the garage and lots of water got in with all this recent rain?

Might be worth an enquiry?

It will take you ages with a hand pump and youl have to keep greasing it. I ended up with a really bad back and stinking of petrol for about a week! oh yeah and no-smoking! We pumped it into a plastic bin with no holes in the botem obviously. I gave the old petrol to a mate with an austin healey sprite mk.iv (as he used to put it) and he didnt care what was in the petrol! it ran fine in that....

 

[JillyB]

Put a straw in and suck!

 

[paddymph]

does anyone actually KNOW if it has a drain plug? Is it DIY job?

really gutted now

 

[visceral]

Paddy have reno managed to have a look at it yet?

wouldnt attempt to DIY, phone Shell, see what they say.

 

[paddymph]

nope, its been sat there 1 week now.

fools. i dont think theyll even look at it to be honest. ill prob remove it at dinner

 

[Simon172]

eh!? arent they supposed to fix your car, being a renault garage and all........

 

[paddymph]

i dont reckon itll be covered by warranty if its petrol, besides, they really are uselss, probably one of the worst about....

 

[visceral]

might it be ur fuel filter paddy - could have copped for a load of $hite outta the tank??

I take it its at Alty?

which Shell garage was it??

 

[paddymph]

the one next to there

 

[visceral]

mmmm theres one to avoid then!