A little worse than most incidents :Hilarious: Asda filling station mix-up leaves drivers with wrong fuel in their cars - Yahoo News UK
Yep. I filled an empty, fully loaded transit van with Petrol. Totally brimmed it and still didn't notice until I was 2 miles from home. Sent the missus out in her 1999 1.6L petrol Polo to the rescue. For the return journey she steered the van and I pulled it home with her car. Poor little Polo, luckily it's very flat around Heathrow or I'd have never of made it. Nearly made a limo out of the polo. Still using the old petrol/diesel to start bonfires now....I'm too tight to throw it away. The old smiley faced transit was like a purring kitten afterwards (sorry too much Marco Polo). Just needed a new fuel filter. Didn't they used to recommend a little petrol now and again for a diesel engine?
tip a sales wifey did it twice to the same fiesta at a ford dealership i worked at on the same day immediately after we emptied it the first time. wumin, what they like? :smile:
Did it once in an old Vectra, travelling from Aberdeen to Dundee, luckily it was on £10 I put in....made it all the way too!! The engine was never quite the same! A pal filled his Virago with diesel once, he had no idea until the roadside assistance arrived and could smell it :Banghead:
Not yet, but I have been close to doing that in the US. They colour their pumps/fuel hoses the opposite way than we do here. ie Diesel pump is green and Petrol is coloured black!
Had that exact thing happen to be at a petrol station on my 07 zx6r. Filled up with "petrol" and got 6-7 yards before it died. Receipt said petrol but the station refused to accept liability. Recovery guy turned up and went mental at the manager but it still cost me ££ to get it sorted.
Many years ago, I was very low on petroil in my Francis Barnett Cruiser 80 250cc..... ....so I mixed it with about a half gallon of white spirit so it was 50/50........... .......so......?? It ran........ Clouds of smoke and severe knocking but it got me home........ And then I rebuilt the engine.
forgot about this one.14 years ago a brake down wagon turns up with a brand spanking Doblo that had been purchased earlier that day, an angry looking owner strides up to the service desk i happened to be standing behind points his finger at me and starts efing and jeffing in my direction, tells me he isnt happy, will be writing to fiat and to fix his fucking car now. so being the chilled dude that i am i ask the usual questions, where,when and how. the angry man is getting redder by the second but in between the expletives and if you (me) dont fix it now i would be efing sorry i caught 100yrds after filling it up. so i ask the question, any chance you have put petrol in it? f..k, you should of heard him. f..king idiot this, w,,ker that. still chilled i take the customer out side to his dober quick sniff of the fuel cap. confirmed, necked with petrol. no apology no f all. starts kicking off again and blames the petrol station for shifting the pumps around.wtf?. points at me again and tells me to get the efing tank drained, i explain that as always we are busy but as always we will do are best, send him away for two days, within half an hour i had the fuel out of his tank and in mine and £200 of attitude tax pus a tank of diesel for him. worked out at about £400 ph back in 2001. yip it pays to be dick. :smileys:
