I'd look to see if it was possible to push the car into, or create, some shade to cure the orig problem. Give it an hour to cool off, then crack the cap gently, with perhaps some newspaper on the ground to catch a spill.
Just don't do it with a burning cigarette in your mouth.
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>>Just don't do it with a burning cigarette in your mouth
A lit cigarette is mostly ok. Just don't light one - the match and/or lighter will definitely make things go bang.
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A lit cigarette is mostly ok. Just don't light one - the match and/or lighter will definitely make things go bang.
I remember being taught in chemistry at school that the temperature of a cigarette end is lower than the flashpoint of petrol. You can apparently drop a burning cigarette end in a puddle of petrol and it will go out.
When you would be in trouble is when you light it as you say, or if the lit end hits something and produces sparks. These sparks are hot enough to ignite the vapours.
I would really like to try this one day.
Cheers
DP
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I think that?s probably the best thing you could do LY, pretty much because there is little else that can be done.
The handbook will have told them not to brim fill the tank for a reason, this is it. It?s why I find it odd when you see those people at the petrol station, with the nozzle just in the tank, dribbling it in. An accident waiting to happen.
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