Anti-vandal instructions: how to protect the car from draining gasoline?

There were enough fans to refuel at someone else's expense at all times. Even the complex design of cars does not stop such people. Naturally, the problem arises of how to protect the car from draining gasoline. After all, most vehicles spend the night in yards without proper supervision.

How is it done and is it possible to protect against draining

Most often, draining is carried out using a hose lowered into the gas tank. The method is suitable for vehicles that have a short and straight filler neck. As a rule, these are carbureted cars of the old years of production.

In modern fuel systems, the gas tank is located in a special recess under the bottom of the car and a long curved neck is used. Not every hose will enter it, respectively, draining is difficult. Many automakers install safety nets in the tank filler. Do not insert a hose into it at all, unless you first punch it mechanically.

If a car is trespassed by someone who knows how to drain the contents of the tank in more complex ways, additional protective measures are needed.

Basic protection options

Effective ways to protect yourself from draining fuel can be grouped as follows:

• do not leave gasoline in the car at night;
• store the car in garages, parking lots;
• install an alarm;
• install means of mechanical protection.

The approach is different in each case. The design of carbureted "Zhiguli" and cars with fuel injection is obviously different. Storage conditions are also different. In order about everything.

As a rule, this is offered by those who want to punish thieves. It is hard to change the fluid in the tank every day, so options are offered such as installing an additional tank that will become working. In a regular one, fill in either gasoline with an admixture of substances that disable the fuel system. Like, which of the neighbors in the parking lot did not start the car, he steals.

However, changing the design of the car is prohibited, such a vehicle will not pass the next technical inspection. Even if you get official permission to install an additional tank, which is troublesome, the rework will cost a round sum.

Can be filled with neutral liquid. But she does not smell of gasoline, an attacker can easily determine the substitution.

It will be possible to save gasoline in such ways, but you can punish yourself along with the attacker.

The easiest way - hinged means of protection. It does not require alterations and time-consuming. Parts stores offer products for every choice. The only inconvenience is that you have to open the tank with a key every time you fill up. But the locks on the lids are weakly protected. It is clear that a safe lock cannot be installed on the lid. And the covers themselves are defenseless against crowbars or mounts. And yet such a decision will make it difficult to drain.

Metal nets in the neck are more reliable, and better in the filler hole of the gas tank itself. Access to such a grid is difficult and it is almost impossible to drain the fuel with a hose without dismantling the tank.

Other ways

The most effective way to protect yourself from a drain. No fuel, no problem.

It is inconvenient, of course, every day to stop at a gas station. But if the planned daily mileage is known, there is a gas station along the route, then daily refueling will not take much time and will be a reasonable payment for the saved gasoline. You can drain the leftovers into the canister at night, but this is troublesome. Yes, and storing a canister of fuel at home is unsafe.

The protection of the gas tank and its neck does not guarantee one hundred percent safety of the contents. There are other ways to drain. It is enough to connect to the fuel line that supplies fuel to the engine, or to the drain pipe from the fuel rail back to the gas tank. When the fuel pump is forced to turn on, gasoline will flow into the canister.

It is important to protect the car as a whole, and not individual parts. Feedback alarms come to the fore. They will notify the owner of a burglary attempt. You just need to keep the keychain with you. The alarm system will not scare away a professional hijacker, but for a lover to profit from someone else's, it can become an insurmountable obstacle. The standard alarm functions can be expanded by installing protection on the gas tank hatch and on the elements of the fuel system, ignored by the designers of security systems.

If you activate a special mode, when a signal of unauthorized intervention is given only to the key fob, you can catch an unsuspecting attacker by the hand.

Do not pay attention to the advice to park the car very close to the fence or wall so that there is no access to the gas tank hatch. Such places, if any, may be occupied. You should not transfer the tank neck to the trunk, as well as use other methods that change the design of the car.

It is believed that the kidnappers can be misled by the sign "car on gas". In winter, such cars start up on gasoline, and only as they warm up they switch to gas. Making sure there is fuel in an unprotected tank is easy. It is enough to lower the hose.

When thefts are massive and repeated regularly, and the means of protection do not help, it is necessary to involve law enforcement agencies. For such an act, administrative liability is provided, and for committed repeatedly or by a group of persons - criminal liability.

The optimal protection against draining is the complex use of mechanical and electronic means of protection. They cannot be guaranteed to save fuel, but they will significantly complicate the drain. The kidnapper may wonder whether it is worth messing with such a car for a few liters of gasoline.