Petrol spill

Blue65 Officially Full-On Dubber

298 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 15 Jun 2015, 10:40 pm

#1015127

I was still a bit asleep when I was pumping petrol into my VW vintage Beetle in the morning.

Usually the petrol pump will cut off early so I wasn't paying attention but to my horror it overfilled and probably 1 litre of petrol spilled into the front bonnet area.

I cleaned up most of the spill using the gas station tissue paper.

I went home and used warm soapy water to clean up the surface.

Thankfully the front bay of my VW bug is not carpeted - just painted metal.

However after I cleaned everything up and drove it up my garage - I found to my horror petrol leaking out from underneath the floorpan - the right side. WTF?

I hosed it down with water - I think the petrol got trapped in the front floorpan section?

Was hosing it underneath with the water hose the right thing to do? Whats the best way to clean up a petrol spill?

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bugmaniaar Officially Full-On Dubber

295 posts · joined Jun 2011 · 16 Jun 2015, 2:50 am

#1015135

Match..😂

wombatventures Wolfsburg Wizard

680 posts · joined Feb 2013 · 23 Jun 2015, 2:02 pm

#1015467

Nah bugmaniaar .... thats only for Magnas and E😁xcels

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grumble Son of Jim - Creator of Good

2,672 posts · joined Jun 2008 · 23 Jun 2015, 7:54 pm

#1015505

Get a syphon hose and suck some fuel out of the tank to below the filler neck,the vent tube runs down and out there. Water is not a good idea as it spreads the fuel,what you need is to mop it up with cloth and then clean with a detergent based cleaner and then wash it off.

vlad01 Compulsive Aussie Vee Dubber

4,270 posts · joined Jun 2010 · 28 Jun 2015, 5:46 pm

#1015801

gota love those petrol station auto stop fillers. Never fucking works.

Always spill fuel on my car as it doesn't click off when its full and sprays fuel out like geyser. Its like this 100% of the time unless I have my ear close to the filler and listen for the fuel coming up the filler and stop before it sprays out, but I dont want a face full of fuel haha so I just let it spill out.

I wonder why they don't work for me?

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Past owner of, 70 NB, 73 SB and 72 FB TLE