sam-smith
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Registered: 8th Jan 07
Location: plymouth, UK
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chatting with my mate today. cant remember how we got onto it but we were talking about petrol or fuel tanks or something... anyway
he said his cars never has a full tank. he said only time his LET corsa had a full tank it spluttered and kept cutting out.
said he had heard somewhere that you should never fill a corsa up as they do this.
now the guy aint an idiot and isnt the type to belive anything and he rebuilt the engine himself (fully qualified mechanic) so it just seems odd that he had heard this and it seemed to struggle with a full tank.
any ideas? could be something else?
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Scotty C
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Registered: 6th Nov 05
Location: Kidderminster Drives: 1.6 16v Sport
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What a load of bollocks 
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jamesvalver
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Registered: 21st Feb 03
Location: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
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my xe always get a full tank.
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VegasPhil
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Registered: 16th Jan 05
Location: Fareham, Hants Drives: Octavia VRS
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I fill mine to the top, then let it run to the red. Seems fine every time
Corsa 2.0 16v Vegas - Sold
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g-man
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Registered: 26th Feb 06
Location: East Kilbride
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The only thing that is even nearly possible is that a full tank is somehow preventing the fuel pressure regulator return excess fuel into the tank, causing high pressure on the rail and consequent overfuelling ??? Apart from that, I'd say it sounds balls.
[Edited on 28-03-2007 by g-man]
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Dean_W
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Registered: 13th Dec 05
Location: Downham Market, Norfolk
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quote:
Originally posted by VegasPhil
I fill mine to the top, then let it run to the red. Seems fine every time
Same here
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bubble
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Registered: 24th Jan 04
Location: Darwin, NT Australia.
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quote:
Originally posted by sam-smith
chatting with my mate today. cant remember how we got onto it but we were talking about petrol or fuel tanks or something... anyway
he said his cars never has a full tank. he said only time his LET corsa had a full tank it spluttered and kept cutting out.
said he had heard somewhere that you should never fill a corsa up as they do this.
now the guy aint an idiot and isnt the type to belive anything and he rebuilt the engine himself (fully qualified mechanic) so it just seems odd that he had heard this and it seemed to struggle with a full tank.
any ideas? could be something else?
early b's suffered with filler neck vent collapsing-when tank fuel vacuum lines would collapse and it was hard for pressure regulator to deliver fuel.
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deano87
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Registered: 21st Oct 06
Location: Bedfordshire Drives: Ford Fiesta
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I always fill mine up to the brim as well. Never let it go into the red though.
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CorsaKen1
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Registered: 22nd Nov 06
Location: Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire
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quote:
Originally posted by deano87
I always fill mine up to the brim as well. Never let it go into the red though.
same here apart from red - I now unfortunatly know I can get 43 miles to red before you conk out which I did just as the petrol station came into view a mile away lol
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csweatherston
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Registered: 16th Jan 06
Location: Devon
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the top of his fuel tanks probly rotton......he just didnt want to tell you
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