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Can any bright sparks on here suggest a way I can get a full tank of fuel out of a car I'm pxing into a can using some hose or any other items I can find around the house without getting any fuel in my mouth?
Thanks.
Disconnect feed from fuel rail and direct into your can. Bridge fuel pump relay. Wait.
Or if youre in a hurry, place container under tank and hammer a screwdriver through. Not good on a car you're PXing though 🙂
You got to know when to stop sucking....
stop sucking before the fuel gets in your nmouth?
you probably can't get a hose into the filler - last couple of cars I've had have had baffles in there to stop you
It's the wife's car, a 1999 diesel golf.
Diesel, my favourite.....
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Just drive to the Isle of Skye and back. Voila! No diesel!
Unless you live in Skye
These work well too: http://compare.ebay.co.uk/like/170971682641?var=lv<yp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar&adtype=pla&crdt=0
True - wouldn't work for my parents who live in Struan. OP - are you my parents?
I've put my thumb over the end of the pipe, yanked it out and gone straight into the bucket low down, takes practice but isn't as difficult as Jedi mind tricks, other than that get a 'bulb' bleed pump and suck it out with that and some hose
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Yes. You don't phone enough.
stop sucking before the fuel gets in your nmouth?
Keep the tube up high until you have sucked enough then bend tube in half before lowering it down into the can. If you do the traditional keep the tube down right next to the can while you suck you are stuffed - been there 🙁
Do you have any children ? Do the neighbours ?
Yes & Yes.
A friend our mine's wife tried sucking petrol out with a Hoover..I'm not recommending this...clear hose then you can see it coming
Keep the end of the hose as high as possible until the fuel is almost the end, then thumb over the end.
Lower the hose into the can and remove thumb.
(As above, clear hose helps.)
When i px'ed mine the other week, i just went round family friends, cups of tea, lunch then when i had used the fuel and seen everyone i wanted to for at least the next month dropped the car off no fuel. Pleased everyone, surely no one is that tight they have to suck the fuel out.
They've agreed just £200 off for the old heap against an over priced but still reasonable Audi. I filled it up on Thursday.... £68... so yes I am that tight.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not attempt to syphon off by mouth a mate of mine almost died doing this by swallowing and inhaling the fuel.. PLEASE PLEASE DONT DO IT!!!
£200? It's probably worth £150 in scrap or double that if you just stick it on gumtree. I'd have just sold it cheap and haggled the price down more on the Audi.
Everyone's an expert 🙄
yeah selling it privately might have got more money but then I've got the hassle of taking pics, making the advert and then loads of numpties phoning me during work hours with the sole intent of getting the car as cheaply as possible. Coming round my house interupting my dinner, kicking tyres and saying 'hmmm there's a scratch there' OR I can px it and suck up the loss with no hassle whatsoever. hmmm now which one will I do?
Everyone's an expert
No need to be a dick. Was only trying to help.
It was a suggestion seeing as though you are trying to save £60 of fuel by syphoning it out...
Advert "Gold diesel, must go ASAP £400..." etc etc and go out for a nice dinner with the money you make extra or buy something for your bike. Less hassle than syphoning fuel.
Two pieces of pipe. Long and short. Rag(s) to stuff round tubes.
Long one all the way into the fuel, short to blow into. Rag packed around them in the filler tube.
Blow into short tube and fuel comes out of long tube into container. Use syphon effect once started...
yeah sorry, hence why I'm trying to claw as much back as I can.
I know where you are coming from. Try selling an old E30 325i BMW and getting all the voicemails in irish accents offering you 1/2 what you put it very reasonably for a quick sale up for! Quite a desirable car to slam to the ground and use for drifting around in. I loved that car so held out for an enthusiast.
A good way to avoid all the messing round is just post up on somewhere like here or an owners forum if you frequent one. Put where you are and be honest about the condition etc and say you just want it gone by X date and normally someone will looking for a car to tide them over or know someone who is. Anything over scrap/PX value pays for a treat for you and the OH and is more satisfying that feeling done over by a dealer.
Did exactly that for a friend of mine and a lad from my local cycling club bought it and a year later it's still going and taking him on trips and he doesnt need to worry about throwing the bike in the boot as it's bangernomics. Was heading to the scrap yard the next day if not sold.
jekkyl - Member
..... OR I can px it and suck up the loss......
Or some diesel. Clear pipe but I think I'd just have a day trip instead. After all you've read on here you're openly admitting to buying an Audi - brave man, swallowing diesel shouldn't be a worry 😉
Diesel floats on water, right? Pour 50 litres of water into the tank and the stuff that spills out will be the diesel.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not attempt to syphon off by mouth a mate of mine almost died doing this by swallowing and inhaling the fuel.. PLEASE PLEASE DONT DO IT!!!
Or.
Do it, but do it properly.
That way you won't be inhaling or drinking the fuel.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not attempt to syphon off by mouth a mate of mine almost died doing this by swallowing and inhaling the fuel.. PLEASE PLEASE DONT DO IT!!!
Then he had a fag and went puffftttt.
Seriously though fuel in the lungs or stoamch is dangerous.
Use a syphon , abvailable from toolstation or screwfix,
Aldi are doing syphon pumps right now
How ever i seriously doubt a golf will be syphonable.....
If i really needed the fuel id stick a bulb on the flexi before or after fuel filter and pump it out from there
How ever - even the scotsman in me isnt that tight
Does seem wierd to take a stupidly lowball trade in price and then worry about the fuel in the tank..... Ive sold non running crap cars for more than 200 quid!!! Ffs i got 500 quid trade in on a mk4 1.4 golf with a blown headgasket and banjaxed waterpump...... And te garage knew about this !
tube in the tank.
thumb on the end and pull out a couple of inches.
push back in as you lift your thumb off.
thumb on the end and pull out a couple of inches.
push back in etc.
do it quickly.
As stated though, baffles?
When you do, be sure to upload a YouTube video.
There must be something very wrong with it for you not to be able to get at least £600 for a golf diesel.
Advertise it on any VW forum, someone will bite your hand off, or has already been said, gumtree, it will sell.
Is it a mk4? What's the mileage, tax and test like? I'd pay 200 for a golf diesel and even pay you for the fuel in it ;-).
There is a plastic quick fit connection on the fuel line, positioned under the tank which leads to the engine bay. It's a bitch to unclip but gravity will do the rest.
They've agreed just £200 off for the old heap against an over priced but still reasonable Audi. I filled it up on Thursday.... £68... so yes I am that tight.
Why don't you delay taking delivery of your new car for a week or two?
If its a MK3 Golf I have syphoned the petrol out of one. Previous mental womam mis-fuelled it , and having already dinged the wing enough to write it off , decided to scrap it.
She told garage owner to get rid of it, he did . He sold it to me for £100. She found out and went bat-shit at me 'profiteering' at her misfortune. So I gave her £20 to shut her up.
Otherwise why not undo one of the jubilee clips under the car and drain it down? Then add a tiny bit back and play fuel roulette all the way to the garage
find a library and look in the haynes manuals? don't cars have drain plugs on them in case of emergencies* ?
*oh balls I've put petrol in a diesel
Yep, anti syphon on a golf.
We got 60 litres of petrol out of a diesel golf by unplugged the rail at the injectors and priming the pump 7000 times, tiresome but possible.
Diesel is disgusting in your mouth, petrol I'm not too bothered by but it really dessicates the lips..
If you pull the hose at the tank as suggested on a mk4 it will close off, safety flaps in the event of a crash, not sure about a 3.
Drill the tank and bung it afterwards?
It's a mk4 with 2 lit dashboard lights and the power steering pump is knackered. We used a small hand pump my mate had in the end, there was something weird going on coz it would work & then not. I think perhaps there were chambers. We got about half the tank out over 45 mins & then f'ked it off. Hooray!
ooooft
power steering - thats worth scrapping it for ....
600 quid + fitting for the rack and pump.
dont ask how i know 🙁
dashboard lights are not always as scary as they voodoo would seem !
jekkyl - Member
It's the wife's car, a 1999 diesel golf.
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Tell her its her job
I got £420 on ebay for my rubbish condition, high mileage '99 406 (that also had knackered power steering at the previous MOT which got bodged for ~£50). I'd be amazed if you couldn't get £400+ on ebay for a diesel Golf - also no hassle, as you just ignore any messages from people wanting to end early, and just have to be in the once for the winning bidder to collect. As others have said, if things are tight enough that you're bothered about £60 of diesel, then I'm amazed that you're not interested in another couple of hundred pounds.
Not that I can work out why you tanked it when you knew you were getting rid - I only put £10 or £20 in the last few times I filled mine as I wasn't quite sure when it was going and didn't want to give away fuel (the warning light was on by the time I did sell!)
Just another quick one - does it have VED left, and if so do make sure you get that to chop in not the dealer (and if the dealer's £200 includes having that then it's an even worse deal - my £420 was without any VED).
Safety flaps lol
It was filled it up thursday and then the power steering went on friday, so we weren't aware it was gonna mess up when she filled it up. The new MOT rules meant that it couldn't have any lights on when the MOT was due up in Nov and yes perhaps I could have got more on ebay or wherever but I really couldn't be bothered, happy to take the £200 off against the new one. We got a diesel audi estate, a 2001 reg with 110k on it for £1400 so pleased with that. As it's a bit older I won't mind getting it a bit dirty chucking a bike or 2 in the back. We had the golf for 2 years and it cost 1k so pretty much got our moneys worth out of it. & the fuel was going in my mates van as a contribution to our wales MTB trip at end of April 🙂
thats why it was a 200 quid trade in.
sounds about right in that context.
I got 400 for mine in a trade in against a 1400 pound car - the fella replaced the engine and sold it to the guy that runs the local chinese - still see it bombing about town. Would have done the same my self but the engine was pish for motorway and we woulda killed it again in short order.
thats why it was a 200 quid trade in.
sounds about right in that context.
I got 400 for mine in a trade in against a 1400 pound car - the fella replaced the engine and sold it to the guy that runs the local chinese - still see it bombing about town. Would have done the same my self but the engine was pish for motorway and we woulda killed it again in short order.