evening all

as a lot of you know i was involved in a car accident a couple of weeks back, well i finally got a call of the third parties insurance saying they were coming out to inspect the car on tuesday.

here's my dilemma, the car has 3/4 of a tank of unleaded in it and i want it to stick into my hire car. do any of you know if the corsa has any kind of prevention device at the botton of the inlet pipe, ive tried to have a go at siphoning it out but i can't get a drop out!

please help!

Most cars have some kind of anti-syphon measure.

Can you not just undo the fuel line and use the lift pump to empty it ?

this was my next thought bit dark now though

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Originally posted by omega0684
this was my next thought bit dark now though

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Drill pump

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My Corsa used to have an anti-siphon thingy in the filler pipe that made it almost impossible to fill
The only way I found of getting fuel out of the tank was to lift the rear seat , plug a power supply onto the pump , and disconnect the fuel pipe at the filter under the car .

No you cant get a pipe down the filler neck
But if you remove the fuel return pipe to the tank you should be able to pump it out on the ignition
Thats what i did on my Dad's skoda before it went to scrap

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Got a lighter? should help you see

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You probably won't be able to get any fuel out of the filler pipe. The best way i've found to do it (providing the enine runs) is remove the return pipe off the fuel rail, start the engine and pump it into a tank via a pipe.

No need to have the engine running, just bi pass the fuel pump relay

So I've been told the easiest way is to puncture the tank with a six inch nail and hammer and put a washing up bowl underneath.

When in the same situation with the old pug (crashed it with a tank of fuel) i just stuck a drill through where filler goes into the bottom and caught in gerry cans.
- If i'd of had it at home powering up the fuel pump would have been a cracking option, but as it was i was round the back of an industral est outside a scrap yard in the rain the day before christmas.

Drilled the filler elbow rather than the tank incase that tank was to be usefull for anyone later! Hate finding wontenly damage stuff in scrap yards.


Daniel