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“Dangerous fuel leaker”

written by on 22/02/2019

I bought a Qualcast SPP41 petrol mower and at first I was pleased with it. It was easy to start andcut the grass well.
I had only had the mower about 4 months and one morning I found the garage floor soaked with petrol around the mower. The whole petrol tank had emptied on the floor. The whole house stank and thank heavens we are not smokers or a fire could easily result. I took the mower back to an service centre as the mower was under warranty. The agent cleaned out the carburettor and petrol tank and charged me £85 because he would not support a warranty claim as he claimed I had used dirty petrol. There is no petrol tap on the mower and the petrol is gravity feed so a small amount of debris can cause the float valve to leak. The petrol I used came from the same container I have used for many years and I can see no contamination in it. This is beside the point. To have a gravity feed petrol supply with no on/ off tap is an accident waiting to happen. I maintain it is inherently unsafe without a tap so I advise against buying this machine.