Some b@?&^%d has drilled a hole in the plastic petrol tank on my daughters car to steal her petrol. A friend has told me his son who runs a garage repairs such damage by drilling the hole to about 16mm then threading it and installing a plug. The question is how thick is a citroen saxo petrol tank and does anyone think this will work.

Happened to the neighbours son last week as well. A 10mm hole in the vans fuel tank. Hmm, common trend strating here. His is a Vauxhall Vivaro diesel.

you can buy a two part filler from most motor factors, which will seal the hole. remember the bigger you make the hole the harder it will be to seal if it all goes wrong.

F me that's a cheap trick......
What's a tank of petrol worth nowadays? 30 quid? You would have thought they'd make more money scrapping the dog shite off the pavement and selling it as manure....

a threaded plug so some b@5']['4rd can come along again and this time unscrew something?

personally i would just buy a second hand tank.

linky dinky

Will

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lol my old e30 bmw had a petrol tank drain plug just under the sill behind the drives door. i thought it just woked loose and leaked, i now realise what actually happened

When i scraped my car after breaking it and was after the £50's worth of petrol out if it atlease i drill into the rubber elbow between the tank and the filler pipe.

As far as i know that tanks are usally polythene so your not going to get much in the way of filler to stick i wouldnt have said? 3mm thick? Tapored plug? Sounds like you could do a lot worse.
- £30 for a new tank is good, but its a few hours job changing it.


Daniel

Buy a second hand one or a new one as you ill not be able to trust it.

I bonded a plastic patch onto the bottom of my P100 profusely leaking tank.....


.......6 years ago!!!!!!! Works like a dream

its a rubber sealant called P5600 I think

its the stickiest stuff i have ever seen, even in hydrocarbons

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I just changed the tank on my Corsa cuz it rusted through - an epic job I wouldnt wish on anybody
But I'd still say change the tank - as allready said , nothing will stick to it , so no chance of gluing the hole , and it wont be thick enough to get a thread in .

what size is the hole drilled in?

i beg to differ with claire the stuff i suggest will stick to petrol soaked plastic.

I stuck 2 pieces of acrylic together whilst submerged in diesel!!

Its so good I have recommended its use for work (I work on repairing hydrocarbon storage tanks-huge ones) The best thing we currently use is a 2 part product which doesn't work well and sets up hard whilst the p5600 remains flexy

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Originally posted by blakep82
what size is the hole drilled in?

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just wondered if a self tapping screw might do the job. the hole would have to be tiny right enough... and whoever drilled it would have been waiting all night for it to drain...

that was my thinking, but was probably too far wrong

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Originally posted by liam.mccaffrey
i beg to differ with claire the stuff i suggest will stick to petrol soaked plastic.

I stuck 2 pieces of acrylic together whilst submerged in diesel!!

Its so good I have recommended its use for work (I work on repairing hydrocarbon storage tanks-huge ones) The best thing we currently use is a 2 part product which doesn't work well and sets up hard whilst the p5600 remains flexy

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Drill it and tap it and put a set screw with a fibre or soft copper washer in the hole --- a very tiny dab of Locitite Lock & Seal will also help.

if some c..t has drilled the tank once he will, and can, come back for more so why change the tank? Just fix it by tapping it and using a set screw set in loctite as already suggested. Maybe use a torx-headed bolt/screw to make it a tad more difficult. Surely this will cost a lot less than 30 quid plus labour.

And if you accidently use the wrong fluid it won't be a ball-ache to drain it!!!!

^^^ agree with the above; it will be realtively expensive buying a new tank but I reckon it will take quite a few hours fitting it ... and then the person will come back and do the same again.

bizarre really - this was happening when petrol hit £ 1.20 a litre but isn't now down to 85 p now?

Repair it then fill the tank with acid a hope the b&&&&&rds come back.

It would probably be not that hard to fit a an alarm that senses change in petrol level when engine is not running and wire up an ignition coil to sentd a few sparks round the tank. Ok, so you lose the car, not big deal as it is a poxy nova, but the think of the SATISFACTION of getting the b***Strds!!!


or fillup tank with petrol/sugar mix that will f**k their engine!

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