Due to the petrol prices, Vigilance required !!!

[J4CKO]

Now I dont know if this is something that happens a lot normally but last night my brothers wife's car had a little hole drilled into it's fuel tank and the fuel drained out and stolen, it's only an Astra and I dont think it had more than a few gallons it but now he has a bill for £300 or so to replace the tank.

Its made me really angry this, you get screwed by the government when you buy the stuff and then some scumbag pikey ruins your tank for a measly few litres, never mind the fact his wife is a nurse at a childrens hospital and missed her shift because of this (lives Manchester, works Liverpool).

So, cant do much but warn you that this is a possibility, try and park to make it difficult, have security lights trained around your motor or put it in the garage if you have one.

Possibly an opportunity for someone to produce some product to make this more difficult.

[anonymous-user]

As for having to replace the tank just for that, surely it could have been patched instead?

[Jez64]

Had my tank syphoned and one of the neighbours cars has had a hole punched in the bottom of its tank and drained before.

Never really fill my cars up any more, unless I need to.

[Shaw Tarse]

I was wondering, when I was filling up yesterday, when fuel thefts/syphoning would make a comeback.

[BIG BAVARIAN]

During the last price hike,our neighbouring factory at work, had a fleet of trucks drained of diesel approx 3000 litres and a bill for the new tanks,the police who turned up , warned us they were targeting Renault lagunas on purpose , because they have plastic tanks and can drill and drain very quickly indeed.

[HellDiver]

BIG BAVARIAN said:

were targeting Renault lagunas on purpose , because they have plastic tanks like every other car built in the last 20 years

EFA.

I call bullst.

[Shaw Tarse]

musclecarmad said:

how do you know it didn't just have a leak - is it a drill shaped hole?

i'm amazed that say a 15% increase in petrol prices makes a difference to people so much that they steal fuel!

Sadly I'm not surprised
It's way above inflation, or wage increases.
How much can a pikey earn from selling a tank of fuel?

[interloper]

This happened to a customer of mine recently. A middle aged lady turned up at my dealership complaining that her fuel consumption had shot up over the last few days and she was most puzzled. I popped out to give her car the once over and as I strolled around the rear I was hit by a really strong smell of petrol, which for a 2 year old Peugeot is really odd!

It turns out someone had drilled a couple of small holes in her tank and helped them selves, utter cretins!

[Superhoop]

HellDiver said:

BIG BAVARIAN said:

were targeting Renault lagunas on purpose , because they have plastic tanks like every other car built in the last 20 years

EFA.

I call bullst.

+1

I haven't seen a new car with a steel tank for at least 15 years - Cheaper to produce plastic tanks, and no worries of the tank corroding and spring a leak or blocking the fuel system with particles of corroded metal

[DP83]

Shaw Tarse said:

How much can a pikey earn from selling a tank of fuel?

Assuming he's putting it in his Transit van, he'll be getting whatever it's worth on the forecourt as he won't have to pay to fill up

[Dick_Phallus]

Have to echo the scepticism of a number of the other posters here.

To drill a tank with all the associated risks and problems and to get what? A maximum of £70? It's going to be far easier to just drive off from a petrol station with fake plates on.

[steveo3002]

suprised filling stations still allow us to fill before paying ..in usa you pay first then fill up which makes sense really

[pcvman]

its crazy, within in the bus and coach industry we have whats called ADBLUE its a liquid thats added to the diesel, so if you steal the diesel on its own and chuck it in your motor the smoke out the pagpies is mental,

why if they can think this up cant they do something to protect cars agains fuel drill theft, Oh hang on they could!!!!
its called dropping the blooming price of fuel.

[Shaw Tarse]

Heroin Teeth as seen on Jeremy Kyle said:

Placcy tank?
I cud melt a hole in dat wiv me fag lyter & drain the petrol!

[angryorangefocus]

pcvman said:

its crazy, within in the bus and coach industry we have whats called ADBLUE its a liquid thats added to the diesel, so if you steal the diesel on its own and chuck it in your motor the smoke out the pagpies is mental,

why if they can think this up cant they do something to protect cars agains fuel drill theft, Oh hang on they could!!!!
its called dropping the blooming price of fuel.

AdBlue is to reduce emissions of oxides of nitrogen from the exhaust of diesel engines is kept in a separate plastic tank as its corrosive and is added to the selective catalytic reduction system at a rate 3–5% of diesel consumption not diretly in to the diesel tank

[madbadger]

steveo3002 said:

suprised filling stations still allow us to fill before paying ..in usa you pay first then fill up which makes sense really

Because a lot of people would go in and pay £20, or at least a round number rather than £62.78 please.

[MaximumJed]

Had the Jeeps tank drilled a couple of months ago, two perfect holes in it, one part way up and one at the bottom. Given that people will steal cable out the street, why wouldn't they also steal fuel?

[theironduke]

My 928 has a placcy tank...never filled it to the top though..never been brave enough too

[EDLT]

theironduke said:

My 928 has a placcy tank...never filled it to the top though..never been brave enough too

How many times have you half filled it?

[Arnold The Bat]

This was reported on our BBC local news a couple of weeks ago although I can't find anything on the BBC about it just at the moment. I have found a report from 2007.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hereford/worcs/...

I've just found this from a couple of weeks ago from Nottingham.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire...