The latest car crime in our area is to steal petrol by drilling a hole in the petrol tank. And to think that some people wonder why we put the car away in the garage when it isn't being used.
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L\'escargot.
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Would that not cause sparks??
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My local end of life centre uses a pickaxe
Unusual approach is the drilling, i think yes they must be double brain dead and hopefully a spark will get them as the petrol dribbles down their arm,oh look ive just jumped on my phone by accident and cant call an ambulance ;-)
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Would that not cause sparks??
I think that many fuel tanks are made of plastic nowadays.
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Oh right so the thieves are using a bib and brace
havent seen one of those for years
wonder if they found it at a boot sale
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Oh right so the thieves are using a bib and brace
When I had two (a pair!) they were overalls! ;-)
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L\'escargot.
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Oh right so the thieves are using a bib and brace
Struggling with this....do you mean brace and bit.....still use one for auger type woodworking drills.
StarGazer
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not being a chippy you could both be right (exits now feeling embarassed)
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probably using battery drill/driver on low speed setting, still hazardous
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I must order a diesel badge for my petrol car
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I bought a batch of Maestro vans from British Gas, a few years back, as 'non-runners.
They had all been taken out of service & parked up in their compund, awaiting disposal. All were holed in the fuel tanks, not drilled, hammer & chisel & a few washing up bowls, it seems, was method to extract the PETROL!!!
Don't think the low-lifes were considering the Health n Saftey aspects - or the minimal value of their swag, let alone the cost of rectification, needed, after.
As usual!!
VB
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It?s a lot easier than all this drilling nonsense I can assure you. The easiest method is one of ?em holds a screw driver under the tank, other one jumps up and down on the roof of the car to force it through. Happened to my mates motor where I live.
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O level physics, syphoning.
What a bunch of parts people are.
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Don't most cars now have anti-siphon devices, or locking fuel filler caps?
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Don't most cars now have anti-siphon devices or locking fuel filler caps?
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>>>>>>>>> yes they do and big bad dogs glued to the tanks underneath to bite unsuspecting thieves, unfortunately these dogs can get broken off on certain speed bumps
please forward this warning to your friends as it could save someones petrol ;-)
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O level physics syphoning. What a bunch of parts people are.
In all fairness, that's a pretty ignorant statement. My mate's petrol theft was just a couple of teenage scrotes with a handheld can (5l jobbie). It's the kind of crime you need done as quickly as possible-the quickest way to get fuel out is to hole the tank. You're having a laugh if you think it'd be easier to carry around the kit for syphoning, having to get through a locked fuel cap first...nah
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Would that not cause sparks??
It *shouldn't* matter if it did, as it's not the fuel that's flammable, it's the vapours. The first thing to emerge from the drilled hole in the tank would be the fuel.
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It *shouldn't* matter if it did as it's not the fuel that's flammable it's the vapours.
And even then, the petrol vapour to air mixture will only ignite if the petrol to air ratio is in the ignitable band. Too much or too little petrol vapour will prevent ignition.
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L\'escargot.
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I still remember stealing petrol from my dads car (30 years ago) by sucking through a pipe and I will never forget the horrid taste; it stayed with me for days.
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If the fuel did go up and burn them they'd probably sue the owner for damages!
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Yes, this happened to a friend years ago, who got a mouthful of petrol whilst (legally) syphoning an outboard motor.
The thing to do in this instance, apparently, is to drink some milk to line the stomach and reduce absorbtion of the petrol.
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>> It *shouldn't* matter if it did as it's not the fuel that's flammable it's the >> vapours. And even then the petrol vapour to air mixture will only ignite if the petrol to air ratio is in the ignitable band. Too much or too little petrol vapour will prevent ignition. --
Someone did some tests recently by dropping lit cigarettes into pools of petrol - as seen in countless movies. It didn't ignite.
On the other hand, if you pour petrol from a can onto a bonfire, the vapour will ignite and blow back into the can....
Liquid petrol is quite safe; it's the vapour which burns.
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any one tried spraying damp start or similar on an engine as its running?
thats better than any bonfire
or even better easy start down the airbox and the flames come out 4 foot long
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'any one tried spraying damp start or similar on an engine as its running?
thats better than any bonfire
or even better easy start down the airbox and the flames come out 4 foot long'
You've led a charmed life, or have you got the scars? :>)
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Mythbusters tested this by shooting petrol tanks:
"Will bullets fired into a car?s petrol tank ? or "gas tank" as the Americans say ? explode it? No. The myth busters punctured a tank with bullets five times without any explosion."
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A few rounds of tracer might do it though? Not sure myself but there may be someone here who can enlighten us from personal experience.
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A few rounds of tracer might do it though? Not sure myself but there may be someone here who can enlighten us from personal experience.
...or a search on www.darwinawards.com.
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e Prôf - Another Recycled Teenager
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One of my mates at school looked into a discarded petrol can using a match......
He had no eyebrows at all for weeks and a very suntanned looking face.
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was he fuming afterwards ;-)
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They tried again in another episode with tracer rounds - aparently the tracer did ignite the fuel, which is what I would have expected.
I guy I used to work with lived in a rough area, he was a bit of a religous nut and came in for a lot of attention from the local yoofs who used to steal petrol form his car about once a month. it got out of hand when they then decided just stealing it wasn't enough and that it would be fun to torch the car by setting fire to the spilt petrol. This was the last straw for him and he moved house after that.
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it got out of hand when they then decided just stealing it wasn't enough and that it would be fun to torch the car by setting fire to the spilt petrol. This was the last straw for him and he moved house after that.
Oh dear, I thought you were going to say he exacted some delicious revenge on them.. :o(
My grandparents used to live on a fairly rough estate. The local nutter family noticed that my grandad was spending a lot of time repairing his Mk4 Cortina every weekend. So they came round and offered to nick it and torch it for him, in return for a cut of the insurance money.
He commended them on thir ingenuity but politely declined the offer.
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