That does not look nice

I got up still sad and mad about the Alpine.

I went to see the tank repair people and told them the problem had returned. They thought it was odd and told me the seal was permanent and would not move once baked on.

So once back home I bit the bullet spent an hour getting the car safely up on the rams. Then I took the union off - wow - petrol flooded out !

So good and bad news. The tank was not blocked after all...

I tidied everything up and wondered what to do next. Then I looked at the petrol I'd captured. It looked very milky - and there were some bits in the bottom of the catch pan too.

So I drained a lot more and it was clean although a few bits came out -not many. So my conclusion (hope) is that I'd got water in the petrol and it had made the car misfire.

Ethanol will absorb water and look like that I found after research so perhaps it is.

I'll add new clean petrol and test it again next week.