first I wish you all a successful and healthy year 2023. Greetings from Germany.
On of my goals of 2023 is a partially repainting of my Mk1 MGF because I want to fit a MGTF boot lid and a Frontbumper with fog lights and get all the scratches removed from arround the car. Before I can do that I have to solve a problem in my car which eats up my paint at the fuel filler cap:
I only drive my MGF in the summer quiet often with 30+°C outside temperature. After a tour with low tank I drive to the refuel station and refuel the car. The petrol comes from the cold refuel station earth bunker into the hot tank. I guess because of the temperature differences suddenly the fuel increases its volume and overflows after half a minute. The result is, as you can see, petrol overflow which destroys my paint over time. The picture was taken 1 min after full refuelling and the car spits out approximately 5 Litres of fuel through the closed filler cap. I don't have to mention this is dangerous too.
I discussed the topic in the German MGF Forum. The advice I got was to stop refuelling the car in the moment the automatic tank nozzle cut-off happens. In the past I refuelled the car manually after the auto-stop until I saw the fuel inside the fuel filler neck.
I adapted to the advice and it did n´t happen again. But of cause when I now will spend serval thousands of euros in repainting my car, I don't want it to happen anytime in the future. Is this problem known within the thousands of MGF/TFs owners in the UK? Is there a solution for the problem or is it not a problem but a user error? I am used to completely refuel my daily driver (Ford Focus Mk1) to the very top and never had a problem with this.
I also have petrol smell problems inside the car, but this is a well known MGF problem in Germany almost every fifth MGF has to deal by now.
Greetings
Hannes