Plastic Tank problems: Discussion thread, see info thread sticky for updates

[uclabiker06]

No kidding 

[theprocess]

Sure some others have reported the same somewhere in this 160+ page thread, but I've been using Shell V-Power (almost) exclusively since I got my bike new. Shell V-Power here in the great white north has 0% ethanol content. Removed my tank the other day to get the the battery and it hasnt bulged or buckled one bit...pulled straight out of the rubber mounts without fuss.

Glad to hear Ducati has stepped up but by the sounds of it replacing the tanks with the same doesnt really address the issue.

[Ducatamount]

OK,how about upping the ethanol content to 15% per EPA? 
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/opinion/commentary-drought-dries-up-any-reason-for-corn-et/nP9wP/

[Howie]

OK,how about upping the ethanol content to 15% per EPA? 
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/opinion/commentary-drought-dries-up-any-reason-for-corn-et/nP9wP/

Purchase of E15 will be, at least for now, voluntary.  Educate your friends and family about the danger and environmental issues of using E15 and maybe it will go away, particularly with the much faster than inflation price increase of corn and everything corn related.

[ducatiz]

Purchase of E15 will be, at least for now, voluntary.  Educate your friends and family about the danger and environmental issues of using E15 and maybe it will go away, particularly with the much faster than inflation price increase of corn and everything corn related.

Don't get cornholed by corn ethanol.

[Howie]

Don't get cornholed by corn ethanol.

Too late

Got corn holed back in '79.  Fuel injectors, warm up regulator and fuel distributor.

[krista]

Purchase of E15 will be, at least for now, voluntary.  Educate your friends and family about the danger and environmental issues of using E15 and maybe it will go away, particularly with the much faster than inflation price increase of corn and everything corn related.

When researching a new van for the shop, I found out about compressed natural gas. Now I'm pissed I went 40+ years of my life before finding out about it. $2/gallon, so clean the oil always looks new, solo-hov in CA and UT, comes from USA so $ stays in USA. The 5.2L V8 in my van was cleaner than my Scion xB and cost the same to drive. So I sold the box and bought a natural gas Honda Civic GX.

Now dreaming of a natural gas fueled 796 powered 1199...

[twolanefun]

When I was in Europe a long time ago, came back in 82', they had american cars/trucks used in fleet opeartions like Taxi's running on natural gas. And they had pumps for the stuff al over the place mostly Netherlands, Belguim, Northern Germany as I recall, yet we still have done nothing like that - hard to believe. - Gene

[krista]

Yeah there are like 1000:1 ratio of gasoline pumps to NGV pumps, but there are enough that I've given up gasoline on all my cages. cngprices.com has a map. Oh, and of course, there's an app for that.

[ducatiz]

When researching a new van for the shop, I found out about compressed natural gas. Now I'm pissed I went 40+ years of my life before finding out about it. $2/gallon, so clean the oil always looks new, solo-hov in CA and UT, comes from USA so $ stays in USA. The 5.2L V8 in my van was cleaner than my Scion xB and cost the same to drive. So I sold the box and bought a natural gas Honda Civic GX.

Now dreaming of a natural gas fueled 796 powered 1199...

Ford had CNG Rangers for a while, but I don't see them anymore.

Dodge: http://www.mopar.com/ram/2500/2012/shop/335762/164/

GMC Savana 2500 is available with a 6.0L CNG

[Bill in OKC]

Purchase of E15 will be, at least for now, voluntary. 

AMA action alert:

http://www.americanmotorcyclist.com/rights/issueslegislation

[twolanefun]

I alerady posted as it's own thread http://www.ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=59005.0 - Gene

[krista]

Ford had CNG Rangers for a while, but I don't see them anymore.
GMC Savana 2500 is available with a 6.0L CNG

I use the California ARB "eligible vehicles list" as my shopping guide. Van is a 2001 Dodge and my cng cage is a 2007 Civic. Most companies suppress the existence of NGVs from the public so you have to ask the fleet managers. 2012 is the first model year that Honda publicly talked about the Civic GX, which has been America's Cleanest Car for many years. They've been selling the GX since 1998.

The GSA Auto Auction has 5 or so of the Civic GXs coming up. In Ohio, which I would consider flying to if I didn't already have mine.



eta cool link: http://www.driveclean.ca.gov/searchresults_by_tech.php?tech=43

[koko64]

We have plenty of it (Liquid Petrolium Gas) available down here in Australia. The Fed govt has provided a cash grant for folk wanting to add it to their vehicles. Converting over cost me zero. My 85 Ford Fairmaont has a 65 litre tank for LPG as well as the standard gas (petrol) tank of 70 litres, so excellent range for long trips. Unfortunately some gas companies sneek a fair bit of butane in with the propane and bond it with parafin, so I run petrol or gas as you call it to clean things out once in a while.

[axle167]

Does anyone have any experience with this expanding tank issue dealt with by Ducati dealership in Canada under this extended warranty?  Specifically Vancouver?  Thanks!