Gooday,
decided to post this seperately to "myfourbys" post from yesterday, as it is a bit different .
I,ve a '98 Rodeo dual cab 4X4, ex NSW police paddy wagon, fitted with a Brown Davis long range tank, which I was told held 112 litres. I had to drain it and drop it out due to a broken pick up pipe while we were at
William Creek last year. I found a crack around the front mounting bracket, which wasnt too bad as the tank is double thickness there, and I had it welded up properly at
Coober Pedy when we got there.
As I had to drain the tank,I decided to
check its capacity,so I knew how much was still in it when the fuel warning light came on. On filling it up again I found it was only holding 90 litres, and not the 112 litres I had been told to expect. I checked it twice, as the descrepency was considerable and we were doing lots of long range travel away from supplies, and its essential to know how much fuel you have.
I got the phone number of Brown Davis, phoned them up and told the owner my story about the 90 litres. You wouldnt believe the crap he fed me. He recons there is someone in NSW who was supplying tanks to the NSW police who decided to save himself some money and instead of supplying the proper Brown Davis tanks, he was making them himself, selling them to the police, for the same cost as the BD units and pocketing more money, as he could make them cheaper than he could buy the BD units. When I said "
well this tank has a Brown Davis stamped badge and number on it" he said that this person had gone to the trouble of making up his own stamp to punch onto the metal badge etc.
Can you imagine getting this crap down the long distance phone line ?? If he had told me that some of their tanks only held 90 litres I probably would have been disapointed , but believed him, but he immediately disowned the tank, and kept on with the bulsxxt.
Of course, he wouldnt tell me who it was that had been copying his tanks and implied that they were looking at what they could do about it.
I wonder if anyone else has ever measured their BD tanks capacity properly, especially those in Rodeos. Or has anyone come across the same story?
cheers.
Sails.