I recently went to get gas with a friend, and the idiot decided to help me fill it up while I went in to get a soda. Well, it ended up overflowing. Not a great amount overflowed, but it did get on the gas tank. When I came home about an hour later, I took a warm, soapy sponge and washed it off lightly, then rinsed it off with another sponge and warm water, then dried it.
Is this sufficient, or is the paint going to corrode? Mind you, I don't plan on rinsing my motorcycle with gasoline often, if ever again, and won't be leaving my motorcycle with anyone while getting gas, ever again, so this is probably a one time thing. Just wondering though.
2007-10-11 11:45:46 · 11 answers · asked by RMskater 4 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Motorcycles
It may take the wax off.
Not much else.
2007-10-11 16:02:50 · answer #1 · answered by Firecracker . 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Any reasonably good motorcycle is designed with the idea that gas is going to spill on the tank once in a while. If you were the designer, you'd pick a tank finish that wasn't sensitive to gas. These days thats pretty easy. I wouldn't worry about it.
There are two points to be made, though.
1 is that gas takes the wax off the tank so you want to wax it fairly often.
2 is more serious. I did a very stupid thing once on my old BMW 'airhead' (you know, with the cylinders sticking out the sides?) I left the pump on automatic. The tank filled up and overflowed and about a pint of gas flowed over my tank and down onto the hot cylinders! It went 'Ssssss!' and made a big cloud of what looked like steam. Scared the crap out of me! It didn't catch on fire, though. Can you imagine what that would have been like?
So that's the other thing. Stand there and pump the gas by yourself, don't put the little lock thing on!
2007-10-11 13:29:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can understand how you can spill gasoline all over ur bikes gas tank, the pumps and nozzles at gas stations are hard to control, the gas nozzle trigger is too sensitive and gasoline comes out too quick for a motorcycle gas tank.
these gas stations and convenience stores should offer a low pressure gas pump just for motorcycles, and mirrors on the gas pump so we can comb our hair and look cool.
2007-10-11 12:07:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If it was going to corrode (well not corrode but rather melt the paint like paint thinner) the damage would have been done already. It possibly only took some clearcoat off.
2007-10-11 11:53:19 · answer #4 · answered by confused. 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No harm done.
I use gas to wipe the black marks off of the body of my car.
Now if you had a restored-in-Vietnam Vintage Vespa, that would be a Different Story!!!
2007-10-11 15:52:11 · answer #5 · answered by mdcbert 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That has happened to all of us at one time and the worst that will happen is your paint may become a little dull , nothing like buffeting it back to a new shine and you know how we all like to shine are rides up/
2007-10-11 13:54:49 · answer #6 · answered by Thunderoadvtx1300 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I spill driblets on my tank sometimes. It doesn't seem to hurt the paint. I try not to get any on the seat.
2007-10-11 12:37:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
get some teflon spray wax then in the future it wount worry you
2007-10-11 11:59:03 · answer #8 · answered by budda 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it will not hurt your paint
2007-10-11 11:49:26 · answer #9 · answered by hermitofnorthdome 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
it will cause engine seizeure AND THE CUFUFFAL VALVE WILL SNAP OFF
2007-10-11 12:04:42 · answer #10 · answered by jayk3576 1 · 1⤊ 3⤋