I really wanted this to work. I purchased it to siphon gas from my two cars for use in my new generator in case of an extended electical outage like the one-week outage that happened last winter.
I was able to get the siphon threaded into the tank of my Honda Civic, but no amount of shaking would start the flow of gas - I'm thinking the tank was too shallow, even though it was mostly full.
Then I tried it in my Lexus RX300. I got it in a foot and at the first bend the copper tip came off, jammed about 9" into the filler tube. After reading the other one-star review I was aware that this was a possibility and had initally wrapped wire around the tip to make it more secure, but it wouldn't fit though the nozzle hole with the additional wire so I removed and just secured the tip into the hose as well as I could.
I took it to the local body shop to see if they could remove the tip and they had some needle nose pliers with 12" jaws and were able to extract it.
In re-reading the product description, I see that it doesn't actually say you can use it to siphon gas from vehicles and I can't recommend it for that use.
Other than the tip coming off, the siphon is well made and would be suitable for use in a wide-mouthed container that had more than a few inches of liquid in it.
The one-star review is for vehicle use, which is unfair since it wasn't sold as being suitable for that. For just transferring fluids in easily accessible containers, I'd give it 3 or 4 stars.Get more detail about Super Siphon w/ 6' Siphon Hose.
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