What should you mainly pay attention to when you fill up a moped with fuel?
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Correct answer
B. That I do not spill fuel on the hot engine or hot elements of the exhaustion system.
Explanation
In the photo, there is an open fuel tank filler with the cap unscrewed, and next to it a small reservoir with a black cap. When you fill up a moped, you pay attention above all to not spilling petrol on the hot engine or hot parts of the exhaust system - answer B.
Petrol evaporates very quickly, and its vapours can be ignited by a hot surface or a spark. On a moped the fuel tank is usually close to the engine and the exhaust system, which can reach several hundred degrees after a ride, so spilled fuel can catch fire immediately. That is why you fill up with the engine switched off, slowly, with the nozzle inserted into the filler neck, and you wipe off any spilled drops before starting the engine. Filling up with the engine running (answer C) is prohibited at filling stations and is dangerous. Filling the tank only to 3/4 (answer A) is not an obligation - it is enough not to fill it to the very top - the fuel should not reach the filler neck, because it expands when it gets warm. At a filling station you do not smoke and do not use an open flame.
Legal basis: no explicit provision - rules of safe vehicle handling; as a supplementary basis Art. 66 para. 1 point 1 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym)