I use garden strimmer line for mine, you can push it in as far as you want, and it is a great balance between stiff enough to push down and flexible enough to follow bends.
Water around the fuel filler
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Suffolkrich
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I’ll try that cheers
When I wash the car, I make it a habit to use the water hose and thoroughly rinse that area, it keeps the drain clear.
I have always found this easier to push the strimmer cord up from near the wheelarch,save having to find the outlet
DivideBYZero
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The tube in the boot could well be the battery vent tube.
The fuel filler drain doesn't go inside the boot. It drains outside behind the wheel arch liner.
Tony.
Tony.
tigervig
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Gee thanks. I was wondering what's this tube is. Will have a look 1st thing tomorrow.
If its a clear plastic tube about 8mm (5/16") dia. with a hard plastic 90 deg. end on it it will likely be the battery vent tube.
It should exit through a rubber grommet in the floor panel.
Tony.
It should exit through a rubber grommet in the floor panel.
Tony.
DivideBYZero
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It’s grey plastic tubing on my 2002.
I just keep a bit of wire in the filler compartment and poke it through the drain hole when washing the car or putting fuel in!
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Thanks to all the advice. I managed to clear the small hole there. It helped with the cold weather 
. When I went out today to clear it water has got frozen and came out like an ice cube (see attached photo).
Then I got hold of a ballpoint pens tube inside and just yamked it and got it all cleared.
Happy days
. When I went out today to clear it water has got frozen and came out like an ice cube (see attached photo). Then I got hold of a ballpoint pens tube inside and just yamked it and got it all cleared.
Happy days
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overthehills
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Sorry to push an old thread. Just driven to Leicester after a couple of weeks of serious road mileage and have made an interesting observation.
I've been an idiot and spilled a bit of Shell's finest 99RON fuel into the area around the filler cap. I say that as all the grit, crud and gunk that used to block the drainage hole has... Largely gone. Instead there's a few granules of dessicated carbon/mud/crust and a petrol odour. Very localised.
I can only assume that petrol is a solvent and that it's degraded this gunk in the 90 mins since I filled up and hit the motorway. I've had a look under the car and there's a little tiny patch of dark gunk on the tarmac underneath. The drainage pipe had a droplet at the tip. No sign of any fuel leaks elsewhere. Selfie camera mode remarkably useful!
I'll keep tabs on the situation before driving anywhere else, but I don't think I've any leaks. Just thought I'd share this in case anyone has seen or done anything similar.
I've been an idiot and spilled a bit of Shell's finest 99RON fuel into the area around the filler cap. I say that as all the grit, crud and gunk that used to block the drainage hole has... Largely gone. Instead there's a few granules of dessicated carbon/mud/crust and a petrol odour. Very localised.
I can only assume that petrol is a solvent and that it's degraded this gunk in the 90 mins since I filled up and hit the motorway. I've had a look under the car and there's a little tiny patch of dark gunk on the tarmac underneath. The drainage pipe had a droplet at the tip. No sign of any fuel leaks elsewhere. Selfie camera mode remarkably useful!
I'll keep tabs on the situation before driving anywhere else, but I don't think I've any leaks. Just thought I'd share this in case anyone has seen or done anything similar.
There is a tiny drain hole in the rubber surrounding the filler neck. These block and keep water standing in the rubber surrounding the filler neck. The fuel you spilled possibly cleared a blockage, usually you have to poke something like Strimmer line down to clear it.
Tony.
overthehills
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Cheers for this, Tony. I'd previously only heard rumours such a hole existed! Amazing if that's what it was although probably not a treatment I'd recommend. Hopefully it was just a clumsy spill and not something serious. All signs point to my own stupidity
Yes, there is a drain hole. Honestly.
Tony.
Tony.
I suppose lots of modern people have never used or even seen a pen, and can only write on a little screen!
I remember when I was at primary school we used pens with detachable nibs, and had to dip them into an ink well - a little pot built into the desk, which a trusted pupil filled with ink every morning. The steel nibs were coated in grease, so we had to suck them to remove it. This was the UK after WW2 - thank goodness that time is past!
In the late 'fifties at our grammar school we were not permitted to use a Biro, as it was considered that they would ruin our handwriting. Use of such things resulted in detention after school, and sometimes a blow on the head from the teacher.
These days 'Pens' have fixed nibs and are filled with ink from either a bottle or in a cartridge - Americans are so insular, rather like the Brits . . .
I remember when I was at primary school we used pens with detachable nibs, and had to dip them into an ink well - a little pot built into the desk, which a trusted pupil filled with ink every morning. The steel nibs were coated in grease, so we had to suck them to remove it. This was the UK after WW2 - thank goodness that time is past!
In the late 'fifties at our grammar school we were not permitted to use a Biro, as it was considered that they would ruin our handwriting. Use of such things resulted in detention after school, and sometimes a blow on the head from the teacher.
These days 'Pens' have fixed nibs and are filled with ink from either a bottle or in a cartridge - Americans are so insular, rather like the Brits . . .
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tigervig
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Wow it's the same for us back in Sri Lanka when I was in school. We used that pen with ink from bottle. It was compulsory. Then later came the ballpoint pen.
Funny people back then went through the same rituals as kids around the world
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Delighted this thread got resurrected. I've had water standing behind the fuel filler flap every time the car's been washed for years. Just thought it was a case of "they all do that sir". I'll be getting in and about it with some strimmer wire.
overthehills
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Sure you don't fancy spilling a bit of VPower instead? Mind you, at today's fuel prices it's probably cheaper to hire a valet
