Groundbreaking design

Other devices over the years have had difficulty of on-site, after market installation and incompatibility between the need for high speed refueling flow and restriction of the fuel neck.

FuelGuard^® has solved these challenges through the design of a spring which has rounded edges and therefore allows for the greatest dispersion of fuel when hitting a flat surface at high speed and the free flow of fuel into the tank, tested to 180 litres per minute.

FuelGuard^® has solved a number technical issues associated with the prevention of fuel theft in the earthmoving industry:

• The device can withstand any heavy impact attack or removal attempt. This is solved by the spring as it absorbs the shock of any fuel theft attempt.
• FuelGuard^® is installed after-market, onsite with minimal machine downtime.
• There is no restriction to inward fuel flow, tested at speeds up to 180 Litres a minute, well above the industry standard.

Fuel theft costs money

Thieves are targeting machines in both rural and metropolitan areas on:

• Roadsides
• Paddocks
• Estate developments
• Civil construction sites
• Mines
• Service yards
• Pipeline and trenching

A drained tank could leave an excavator idle for 2 hours while refueling is arranged, resulting in not only a loss of the cost of the stolen fuel but also a loss of income from the resulting down-time.

Add to this the costs of project delays, dependent machine downtime such as dump trucks or tippers and costs of associated vandalism such as broken caps. A single incident could cost several thousand dollars per machine.

Thief deterrent

Every machine that is fitted with FuelGuard^® has a highly reflective warning sticker placed next to the filler neck to deter thieves from breaking the caps or lock boxes. Once installed FuelGuard^® is near impossible to remove. Check out our installation video

What machines does it fit?

"Several of our customers have noted a marked increase in fuel economy after installing FuelGuard^®."

"One of our customers was losing thousands of dollars a fortnight from fuel theft in the Melbourne metro region, despite keeping machines in locked compounds with regular security checks."