I haven’t been an MOT tester since 2000 so I’m way out of date- it’s a good thing of course , The same guy was also telling me he does a lot of MOT exempt bikes for insurance reasons and also overseas breakdown cover- to prove roadworthiness, every days a school day!
I’ve never been asked for the cap cover key until this yearMy chap wouldnt know where to look on the Corsa or indeed the Formula
Appropriate maybe with EFI, pump systems and evaporative canisters etc. on modern machines but on gravity fed fuel systems you can't actually have a sealing fuel cap else the fuel will stop flowing as air pressure in the tank reduces. Must let air in to replace the fuel flowing out and those older tanks did not have a one way valve so there was always going to be evaporative fuel loss through the cap.
You can understand why they used to chill fuel with dry ice for production racing eh! They'd get quite a bit more in and at race pace have used it up before it had time to overflow as it warmed.
Wasn"t totally full, but yes agreed.
