Petrol pours out the filler mechanism when full!

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Originally Posted by MrM83

This has happened a few times on my XC90 at my local garage but interestingly haven’t had it recently when I’ve filled up elsewhere, so leads me to assume the pump has a bearing on the matter.

Originally Posted by bluebarchetta

I was having this problem too. I found that making sue the nozzle was firmly and squarely in the opening helped.

Originally Posted by Lexman8

SPA cars have two fuel filler flaps. The first one is obvious but the second one is further down the pipe. The nozzle has to be fully inserted to completely open the second flap otherwise fuel may spill out.

Interesting. I spoke to the top mechanic at my local Volvo and he said two interesting things.

The first was like what bluebarchetta has said in that handle needs to be in a specific orientation to work properly, however this position could be anywhere. No reason why, but he said to give it a go.

Second was that he's had a couple of other SPA cars do the same thing for no reason whatsoever. They take the filler necks off and they are identical and fine yet one spills fuel out and the other doesn't. Now how they determine 'fine' I don't know as I'd be doing pressure tests and material compatibility etc as they may appear identical and fine to the naked eye but if a seal has got a split or air can get in that would explain it.

They said to book it in so they can have a good look as clearly it's not normal and they can just change the entire filler next very quickly under warranty, so that's the next step, but I do want to the try the orientation thing first as I'm very intrigued (and sceptical )