check your fuel pipes!

I was very lucky today.
I was going to take my beetle for a last drive before I swapped the insurance over so I started it up. I had to wait for a few minutes while we moved a car out of the way. Luckily I opened the deck lid to find petrol pouring out of the pipe all over the engine. If I had driven it and let it warm up, it would definitely have set on fire. I had only driven it 2 weeks before and it was all fine.
The fuel pipes looked perfect but had perished around the top near one of the clamps.
Ive changed them now so it's all good again.
Check your pipes if you drive an old car because for the sake of a few quid piece of pipe you can lose your car.

beetles are known for that, happend to my brother few months ago, and my beetle and my dads years back and he wasnt as lucky as us.

yep happened to me too on my bay window, I also wasn't quite so lucky and it went up in a big ole' fireball

RM2WAS wrote:

yep happened to me too on my bay window, I also wasn't quite so lucky and it went up in a big ole' fireball

:( usually always the cause on aircooled rides

happened on all my beetles too :(