> After several days and 5-6 checks with a flashlight in a dark
> garage, the paper disk has been spotted on the bottom of the tank
> in plain view now. Next, the retrieval task. Time to get
> creative. Thanks for the earlier comments, but I got lucky on
> this one. My take is that the paper side of the disk became
> saturated and the disk sank to the bottom.
>
> Mike
Many years ago I got an ex-demonstrator Citroen BX as a company car. It had
been broken into while in their hands and the locks changed. It arrived on a
Friday with a full tank of diesel and I proudly drove my family from Oxford
to my father in law's caravan in North Wales. By the time we came to leave
on the Sunday the tank was empty so I pulled into the filling station in
Porthmadog to fill up.
Guess what? None of the keys fitted the locking fuel cap. The garage lent me
a big screwdriver which dealt with the lock in no time, but the whole
locking mechanism and assorted shards of plastic fell into the tank with a
clatter. 120,000 miles later I handed the car back. It suffered no problems
from this.
Having said that if the paper disc is in plain view I'd get a 3 claw grab on
it and have it out anyway.
IanE
0 comments:
Post a Comment