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lynx-
1996 BMW funduro.
Generally same two places, a sainsbo forecourt (fairly new built and very busy all the time) and a BP (older, less used).
The contents of tank today were full disgusting, black stinking water, fair bit of silt, horrible but prob about right for 5k miles.Never figured out how cars seem to deal with bad petrol, when was the last time any regular car ever had its tank dropped and cleaned out.
BrickMan
Water in fuel again.
Bike lives outside (no cover, because humidity rots everything out), fuel tank removed, cleaned (plastic tank) refilled with 100% fresh fuel inc tap, carb and lines totally cleaned out 3 months ago. Now I've got around 3l of water in a 17l tank again.
Not sure if its the water drain/overflow at the neck that keeps blocking* allowing rain water to get in there or if its just utter shite fuel I keep ending up with. In that 3 months done about 5k miles (courier work, hardly ever get out of city).
*Just taken apart and not blocked, but it is quite small ID tubing (maybe 3mm?) so doesn't exactly flow well if anything but pure water ends up in there.
Manifests itself as when fuel gets low and turn to reserve that everything below the level of the normal tap height is pretty much water, so it sucks that in, blocks up the jets (water doesn't atomise out of the jets like petrol does) and get a no start, or it'll only run off choke until that also clogs with water.