Technical Punto just Gave up, spent £££s on my baby

[isafan]

Wasnt this a design feature of the mk1

Anyone remember the watchdog thing back when the mk1 was new and before the ginger ms robinson left to do the weakest link!? They had a feature about not getting any spirit into di punto?

Mine used to do it all the time - and randomly some petrol stations were worse then others.

Try these - hopefully it helps without you having to lay out loads of cash.
Don't put the nozzle in very far in the car
Turn the nozzle somewhere between at 90 degrees and 180 degrees (upside down) with the pipe from the nozzle pointing towards the rear of the car

I remember when i pulled upto the pump to make sure the car was fully past the pump so you could stand behind the car to twist the nozzle to make it take fuel.

On some models you could take a plastic insert out of the tank entrance and put it back in the wrong way around and that would work too.

 

[dumbledore]

Also seem to be worse in summer. Now that has got colder don't seeem to have any trouble.

 

[fingers99]

If you can get on ePer there may be a handy illustrated diagram.................

 

[blu73]

I think the required angle of the nozzle changes from car to car tbh. On our old p60 the angle was with the handle pointing at about 1 o'clock (over the filler flap) - And over time the car showed this by way of scratches etc.

 

[Azzam]

my car wouldn't accept petrol at a fast rate... what i do now if fill it up be holding two hands on the pump handle and the nozzle is only a inch past the little green flap, been fine since
the nozzles are made so that if theres any risistance to flow it'll cut out(stop overflow), the punto fillerneck pipe is too thin as it limits the flow rate of petrol because air has to exit thru the filler neck also... sorta like emptying a bottle of water

 

[blu73]

thats what the breather is there to prevent though.. I'm aware this has always been an issue on alot of mk1s but i never read a definitive answer as to how to solve it - but in my head it must have something to do with the breather pipe. Not something i ever really messed with but is there some kind of valve somewhere in the breather pipework??

 

[fingers99]

Should be -- there's certainly one on Cinqs.

How did they manage to build the Punto so badly, and the Cinq so well (by comparison)? Thre truth must be told!

 

[blu73]

cinqs built in Poland and Punto built in Italy.... So different factories would prob be the answer to that i reckon.