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Cleaning a car with gasoline.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...640#post216154
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...120#post203403
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...494#post189381
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...255#post180911
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...073#post141095
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...754#post140049

No rainbow effect on the ground...

Looks like a garden hose connection at the base of the nozzle.

She died in a freak gasoline fight accident.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xwsZ5vC5Oc

It's just water. Those type of nozzles are also used to fill watering troughs on farms because they shut off automatically so one doesn't need to stand around and catch it before it overflows. All the ones I've seen like that were blue, not yellow. They all work the same. That looks like a Minnesota license plate and the person is dressed for cold weather so they will probably soon experience the aggravation of having the doors frozen shut.

I have never seen a coil like that with a heavy fuel fill line at at gas pump. Must be water line

A few truck stops will have dispenser with a hose and nozzle like that for RV's to fill their holding tanks Not all RVs can be filled this way since they will have the reverse of a hose bib to allow connecting a garden hose,
I agree with all the previous posts. Not gasoline no rainbow on the concrete connection looks like a garden hose. coil in the hose ETC
Best of all the idiots having a fight spraying gas on each other then some fool pulls out a zippo to light a smoke. too funny.

I agree it’s water. Hose is too small for gasoline and too curly.

As an old biker taught me, petrol 50/50 with fresh engine oil makes a great wipe over cleaning rag mixture, the petrol helps loosen dirt and evaporates to leave a preservative oily film, an enhanced 'oily rag'. Though it came with the warning, outside only, cold engine and leave to evaporate before riding/storing inside. It's how I've cleaned and looked after my G80C for the last 40 years!

Cleaning a vehicle with fuel is not an unheard of idea. Humvees in the US military were painted with CARC paint and using diesel to clean them was a common practice... apparently...

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Cleaning a vehicle with fuel is not an unheard of idea. Humvees in the US military were painted with CARC paint and using diesel to clean them was a common practice... apparently...

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Unlike petrol or gasoline, diesel is safe on automotive paint finishes. Disel can dissolve hard stains without hurting paint finishes.

One of my guys screwed up one time when he took it upon himself to make the Col's. Jeep shine a little better. before an inspection of the Motor pool, We had only had the 12 new M151a2s for about 3 months, the A1s were still in the motor park awaiting. PDO authorization. Opposite of all of the rest of the 430 odd vehicles having a very subdued flat OD green, the Col. liked his command vehicle to have a nice bright shine to match the shine of the wings on his insignia. This spec 4 was detailed to really make it shine for him. Being a half lazy bugger he was supposed to wipe it down with diesel. as was often done when the vehicle needed a quick touch up. The day before he had spilt some brake fluid on the floor of a duce and a half while topping off the master cylinder when he wiped it up the floor had a glossy shine to it. Thinking this would really make the shine pop he poured brake fluid over the whole jeep then wiped it off It sure made it shine for the inspection but the next day where he hadn't been able to get it good and dry the paint had bubbled like it had been hit with paint remover. The col. sent his driver for his jeep but when we did the pre inspection was when I noticed several places where the paint was bubbling, I dispatched his older vehicle, about 10 minutes later here he and his driver came roaring into the motor pool mad as hell because I had dispatched the older jeep for him to use. When he caught sight of the new jeep with bubbling paint He started roaring in laughter.
Well, we were going to paint all of the vehicles to the forest camo paint scheme anyway, I guess mine gets to be the first.
If you spill DOT3 brake fluid on enamel paint don't leave any traces of it

Agree. Plus, those loops in that narrow hose helps give it away, too. No service station gas hose is ever looped like that.

Also, there's bound to be DIY distiller out there that can visually "proof" the liquid as not being much to worry about - even though it's a bit different than the good stuff. (I first scanned the reader responses look for that one!)

I had brake fluid drip from the tiny reservoir onto my motorcycle tank once and it stripped it.