20 litre job, £25 in machine mart... anywhere cheaper?

Theirs is steel but a plastic one will do me for track days...

These CANS any good?

Steve

[Edited on 25/10/08 by coozer]

Have a look at silvermans - big army surplus type place, they have a website

Wilko motorsave have 20litre jerry cans in plastic,I think £12.99,I bought 2 the other week for trackdays,they also had 10litre ones,for £10.99,I bought a couple of those as well,they both come with pouring spouts.

some or alot of garage's will NOT allow you to fill up plastic cans over 5ltrs. If you want to use 20ltr they must be metal, also something to do with carrying them in yor car. Just be aware, I got stopped once with 2 20ltr jerry cans and the old bill made me empty them into the vehicle that I was towing

I seem to remember there are some restrictions to the amount of petrol that can be purchased from a filling station like a maximum 5 litres in a plastic container. Some filling stations try to enforce this limit but if you do it covertly you shouldn't have any problems

Found this:
Petrol filling stations usually have to abide by a licence condition to allow only 'suitable' containers to be filled. This is usually interpreted as metal containers up to a maximum size of 23 litres or plastic containers up to a maximum size of 5 litres. A licence condition has the same effect as a legal requirement. The licence condition does not limit how many containers one customer may fill.

What? load of crap... all modern cars have plastic tanks.

So, I start filling a 20L plastic container and what happens? The young lass comes running out saying 'you cant do that!' no no no.

Point me to where it says I can't use a plastic container please.
If they are illegal how come you can buy them???

errrm I think you'll find if you ask her that she'll then point to the sticker that's on most pumps telling you basically what f1ingers posted.......

[Edited on 25/10/08 by D Beddows]

Most regional fire services have a web page like this one... container info's near the bottom.

LINKY

Army surplus, just watch for ones that are not rusty inside.

I have one that's date stamped 1949, although a bit scratched up its not got any real rust in it, I have seen new ones that fall apart after a couple of years.

The quality of the steel used today is not what it used to be.

So your not in actual fact allowed a 20/25l metal can in a car anyway.
- Although two 10l cans is ok?

What about in trailers.

As I thought, its all about STORING petrol where you need a license.

I intend to fill it up in the morning and burn it all of by 5pm at the trackday.

YooHoo!!

They sell jerry cans at our local Halfords. Can't remeber the price thoughand they're not showed on the website.