Ive noticed Im losing petrol through or around the filler cap.

It seems to be when I drive car hard, I stop and I have a patch of petrol around the cap on the rear arch. Is the cap meant to have a rubber seal on it? It turns and locks but can still be moved out by a couple of mm.

Or does it sound like a breather problem?

 

Cheers

thnk yami had the same problem and i also think fuel spilling onto her rear wheels is what caused her car to crash last year.

That aint normal :shock:

Wow Jay those rear arches look amazing. Sorry it's slightly off topic but would you mind me asking where they came from & roughly how much it cost to get them fitted? Did you get the car fully resprayed at the same time? Looks very very nice

I to found a large puddle of fuel dumped on the floor after doing handbrake turns i found a large hole at the top of the feed pipe that goose to the tank, However i put in the air and took it of and found more holes than a pair of tarts knickers. going to dealer later found out damage just for a laugh.

Arches were done when I bought it matey, think theyre strosek.

 

Is it normal for there to be small gap on cap. I thought It should have a rubber seal and seal real tightly.

May have to remove rear wheel and unscrew shrouding and have a little look soon.

sounds like a seal is missing as the tank supposed to be pressurised for the fuel injection system iirc

Would anyone who has a wide arch kit be able to photograph the petrol cap for us so I can see what its meant to look like.

 

Pretty please :)

you should see the petol that pisses out of my wide arch when filling up or going round a right hand bend - just another ****ing thing SE ****ed up :rolleyes:

 

Regards,

 

alex

so it sounds like there's a few of us with the same problem.

Myself, Yami, CJ.

you should see the petol that pisses out of my wide arch when filling up or going round a right hand bend - just another ****ing thing SE ****ed up :rolleyes:

 

Regards,

 

alex

CJ where did you get your mirrows with indicators from please?

they were just generic ones off the internet - but all the back plates had to be made from scratch which was a bit of a bugger

 

regards,

 

alex

Surely all the w/ass car's have an extention for the filler?-probably this that's leaking?