Help! Some Jerk punched a hole in my gas tank!

Check with your insurance company. My sister in AZ recently had this happen to her gas tank (Ford F150). The dealership was going to charge her $1800 for a new tank. I told her to file a police report and then to contact her insurance company. Due to this being a criminal offense and the fact she filed a police report all she had to pay was her $250 Comprehensive deductable and the insurance company covered the rest including a rental car while her truck was in the shop.

 

these guys expected to come back..they left hoses so they could "milk" our trucks.

we never caught them.

 

Thats only for new,

LKQ in Dumfries VA has one for about $150 out of a 2005. '05-'11 are all the same. Here is a link to look up your closest yard http://www.lkqcorp.com/locations.aspx

 

Should of set up a little sting operation.

 

Some people are real jerks. At work one night we had a entire row of F150 and Escape catalytic converters stole. At least they were kind and unbolted them. Then a few month later they drilled all vehicles that had sold stickers on them. Nice cuz those get full tanks.

 

Ok got it fixed! I replaced the tank with a tank from LKQ $125. I figured if I was going to do it I was going to do it right. Ill get a plastic welder and fix my original tank soon! I will say I was amazed whith how clean the inside of my tank was on my Truck with 78k miles i was expecting sludge on the bottom!

 

Thieves ought to be shot on sight. DRT!

 

Jesse, glad to hear you got the part. Now to hunt down the assholes that did it to your truck.

 

Yea they have something comin.

 

Wow, I think your crackheads were trying for the darwin awards.... leaking gasoline, batteries, and jumper cables? That's a recipe for KABOOM!!!!!

 

I've never seen much dirt in gas tanks that didn't originate as part of the tank itself. Usually metal tanks will eventually rust and leave particles of rust on the bottom and in the filters. As a plastic tank, obviously rust isn't an issue.

 

right out of the U i took a job with a company that did environmental impact studies on old gas stations that were using old tanks and many of them leaking gas. they were targeted for replacement. I remember seeing one tank that fell apart. there was about 10 inches of fine silt that had settled on the bottom and formed a sand stone like deposit.

of course those tanks had been around since the 40's and 50's maybe even older. I dont think gas was that clean back then

i dont even want to see whats at the bottom of my tank runing mexican gas.

 

I doubt that you'll be seeing much dirt in the fuel pumped out of even very dirty tanks. Reason is that the fuel in the tank will have certain specific flow patterns, the pickup line for the pump will be a high current area, so will be swept clean, with sedimentation in other areas around it. Similar with the fill line, which will direct into a point of high current, low sedimentation, so even right after a fill, there won't be much dirt stirred up.

I've had to empty several residential heating fuel tanks, they usually have some significant sedimentation on the bottom, but it stays put, so the fuel that comes out the outlet is actually clean and the filter is not plugged. Turn the tank on end and you get nasty muck for the last gallon, which I keep in a separate container so as not to contaminate the good fuel, which I reuse in my furnace.