Does this look a normal failure

[fordperv]

Right folks, I'm posting to put my mind at ease, i drove to work earlier and everything was fine, when I started the car to come home i smelt a god awful honk of fuel, checked the engine bay and nothing, smelt it as I was driving so pulled up to check and fuel was pissing out, now here's the weird bit, when i jacked it up when I got home I was met with this

 

 

Look at how the flexi has a slice diagonally in line with the damage on the nylon pipe, this has got me a bit paranoid

 

This is the damage on the nylon pipe the logical side of me says it has had a weak point at the raised area and the pressure has ripped the pipe further as a knife would cut it easily and smoothly

 

 

What do you guys think, I don't think I've upset anyone but I can see if works cctv covers the carpark on Monday

[Squire_Dawson]

It does look like an incision. What chod is it? Could you have dropped something sharp onto it whilst tinkering?

[JayW]

I've had something very similar after running a lunch box over, so I wouldn't get too paranoid!

[richardmorris]

I think that's more accidental damage than psycho. Anyone wielding a Stanley knife to that pipe is more likely to cut the whole thing straight through.

[fordperv]

Sd It's on my sierra sapphire, the pipe is on the drivers side rear, it sits against the chassis leg which runs above the driveshaft and wishbone so no possibility of dropping something sharp on it,

 

rm that was my thoughts to be fair but the niggly feeling of the fuel pipe being by accident when someone without a clue was trying my flexi lol

[vulgalour]

It does look more like it's burst from internal pressure than it's been cut externally.

[purplebargeken]

I would never cut a pipe all the way through. Oh fuck, ahh, errrr. Ummmm.

[fordperv]

I did learn one thing though, petrol is perfect to remove spray on underseal

[danthecapriman]

You haven't run something over? Which has bounced up into the arch/underside of the car and just happens to of hit the fuel line.

I'd have thought you'd hear it hitting the car though.

 

My old Fords have the exact same type of pipe and they can get very brittle with age, it doesn't take that much to crack or split them.

I've fixed one of mine on the Granada by sliding a length of rubber fuel hose up over the plastic pipe, covering the damaged bit then tightening a jubilee clamp around each end. Leak free still and nothing said from mot man.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I recently had an almost identical split on the fuel pipe of Daughter no.3's 206cc. I was suspicious, but more that someone might have been trying to nick the petrol, although I'm sure now it was just a bit of stone or debris flicked up.

[fordperv]

You haven't run something over? Which has bounced up into the arch/underside of the car and just happens to of hit the fuel line.

I'd have thought you'd hear it hitting the car though.

 

My old Fords have the exact same type of pipe and they can get very brittle with age, it doesn't take that much to crack or split them.

I've fixed one of mine on the Granada by sliding a length of rubber fuel hose up over the plastic pipe, covering the damaged bit then tightening a jubilee clamp around each end. Leak free still and nothing said from mot man.

No not run anything over, all I have done is sliced the pipe off at the unions and replaced the pipe in between, it's the pipe from the fuel filter to the steel line

[billyboy406v6]

Looks like damage from flying debris, chances are you would not realise you ran over something.

[danthecapriman]

It was a fair sized stone that hit mine, I heard it bouncing around the wheel arch bowl then fling out behind the car. It was only later on I noticed a wet patch under the car and petrol dripping from a tiny crack in the fuel pipe.

[Stixy]

I have seen this happen after a plastic pipe has been kinked ,

 

Happened to crustys sapph on fsoc  

[fordperv]

That would be another explanation, i looked at the pipe when I removed it and wondered if a rodent had had a nibble on the pipe, my work carpark backs onto a field

[Stixy]

Not enough damage for rodents , i have seen it where they have chewed brake and coolant resovoir s to the point they leak !