It is also hygroscopic and will contain a fair percentage of water which separates after only a few weeks, this then rots steel tanks too.
No bother at all, my tank(s) have been fine I think. I'll double check when I get home. And I do the exact opposite to you- I've always brimmed my fuel tanks during lay up, cars and bikes. Never had a start problem come the time...
Phoned 3 departments this morning including technical but i've still not got a definitive answer...waiting for them to look into it further & get back to me
Google it theres a statement from Exon Mobil customer relations on the ethanol issue I know what fuel I will be using in my Classic bikes every one can do as they see fit
What I do already know is that our Government were set to advise petrol companies to increase the amount of ethanol in all fuel in the near future, if this still stands I am not sure
Is Esso Exxon Mobil ? Interesting they also state you must remove your helmet due to a law stating supermarket staff have to determine age, what about the letter box bank robbers I wonder?
In around 2009, a subcontractor supplying petrol tanks to Ducati as OEM parts made a mistake and used the wrong grade of plastic for a batch. This caused problems which were much discussed at the time, but soon corrected. An interesting piece of history perhaps, but totally irrelevant to the situation now, nine years later.
@Robarano had two or was it three tanks swell on his 2012(?) Streetfighter. Surely they weren't using three year old tanks? If so, what chance have owners got if their bike, like the SF, is no longer in production? They are presumably no longer making tanks for bikes that aren't being manufactured which means there are no original Ducati replacement tanks available which are free of this defect. And that means after-market carbon or aluminium. 2K for carbon, nearer 3K for aluminium.
And they still swelled..? I think lining them does work but from what I've been told it wants doing properly, ideally by someone who knows what they're doing and it's a fiddly and time consuming job to do it right. Probably adds a couple of hundred quid to the price.
If you put diesel in your tank it won't swell and the bike will last forever because you won't be able to ride it. For many Ducati owners annual mileage would be unaffected.
