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schema:url	http://fullfact.org/online/fuel-tank-car-heatwave-explode/
schema:text	A post on Facebook, shared more than half a million times, warns that filling a fuel tank in hot weather could cause the tank to explode. “Due to [an] increase in temperature in the coming days, please don’t fill petrol to the maximum limit. It may cause [an] explosion in the fuel tank. Please fill the tank about half and allow space for air.” This is not true, and has already been debunked a number of times online. In 2018, a spokesperson for motoring organisation RAC, Rod Dennis, said: “All fuel systems on passenger vehicles are designed to cope with any expansion of fuel, or vapour coming from the fuel. “There is no risk of explosion from filling up a fuel tank fully and drivers should have no concerns in doing so.” In their fact check of a similar post, fact checking service Snopes write: “The temperature at which fuel auto-ignites (i.e. the temperature at which fuel will combust without a trigger or spark) is around 495ºF [257C]. “This level is far higher than any temperature a covered, insulated tank could possibly achieve simply by being driven or parked on planet Earth.”
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schema:reviewRating	Fuel systems in cars are designed to cope with summer heat. The auto-combustion point of fuel is much, much higher than a car’s fuel tank could feasibly reach.
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schema:datePublished	2021-07-15 (xsd:date)
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