fatgut Posted July 1, 2015 Posted July 1, 2015 Got caught out by this one recently. There is a grey rubber washer which seals the white plastic drain plug to the fuel filter housing. It is only visible if you drain the fuel filter housing of all fuel and totally unscrew the drain plug to remove it. Our car is 12 years old now and done 216000 miles, so the drain plug has been unscrewed a few times now as I always run a bit of fuel out at every 125000 mile service just to see if there is any water in it. I had noticed that I was having to do it up more and more tightly to stop it dripping over the past couple of years. The grey rubber washer had badly split. I have replaced it with a similar rubber washer and all fine again. The rate of leakage when the car engine was running was a steady stream, so car undrivable really. I will be checking the new washer in future when servicing. Probably the cheapest part ever that got a car back on the road! Quote
Johndouglas Posted July 1, 2015 Posted July 1, 2015 In recent years I haven't found it necessary to drain water from the fuel. Simply because there was never any in there. Quote
paul.h Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 'every 125000 mile service' So another year and your car will be due its second service :D Quote
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