Okay so before I get it in the neck, I wasn't trying it on parked up artics lol.

My dad has/had a 2007 1.3cdti astra estate as a company car, last night he filled her with 50litres of the black stuff.

Turns out Citroen dropped off a new 2.2 C5 off this morning, so the astra goes back today woo! But my dad can’t claim the £50+ of fuel from last night back, so we tried to siphon it from the astra into my Furby.

Didn't work :-( I’m sure the hose was in the fuel as it was rather wet, but sucking it there was no resistance (hence no fuel). So we pushed it into the tank further, there seemed to be something blocking it, but a bit of fiddling and we got past this. Sucked again, nothing.

Do these cars have something preventing this from being done? The fuel filler cap and flap lock with the central locking.

I dont think its my sucking as ive never had any complaints before. err.

Regards.

James.

I think most modern cars have something to prevent it being done.

If you can get to to the fuel pump under the rear seats (if the vaux has one) then you could put the pipe on the output from this and into the new fuel tank and then put the correct voltage to it to activate the pump and drain most of the fuel from the tank.

Either that or just rag the hell out of that vaux

Many cars have a screen or a valve in the filler to stop siphoning, however I don't know whether this would be the case in the Ashtray. However, a couple of things to consider are: that the fuel tank is a good couple of feet from the filler opening, so you have to shove in more hose than you might think; and the vertical distance involved is a foot or so, which would require you to suck really quite hard to produce the necessary vacuum. I imagine you might need something like a bailing pump TBH, but I've never tried...

[edit] I quite like Mark's suggestion - your dad's paid for it after all, so he might as well make the most of it!!! [/edit]

Perhaps ramming a sharp implement through the bottom of the tank then catching the fuel in a tray or similar would work?!

I would maybe try the fuel pump...

Just make sure you depresurise the system before taking hoses off!

Phil

I did say to him that the front tyres were very healthy and with a full tank and 45miles to drive he could go a good way making every traffic light between here and Cardiff a mini santa pod with 11's running down the road for traction.

But he reminded me that although the cdti engines are good, the 1.3 didn't have enough power to pull the sleep from your eyes let alone make any smoke, well unless its clutch smoke.

We did put a good meter or so inside the car and to quote a great film, I could suck a golf ball though a garden hose haha.

read the post i did in the fabia 2 section.disconnect the return fuel line n attach a hose

to elaborate on my last post, disconect the fuel return line, put the hose around it. then turn the engine on and hey presto. just make sure your gripping the hose pipe on tight otherwise your gonna get fuel everywhere lol. of course if you rev the engine the fuel comes out faster