Well I don't what this lady thought she was doing when i returned to my beautiful bike. Cheeky bugger, very cheeky actually from the rear! First was a load of oral (verbal) of course, then came the recriminations, then a nice lolly to suck, from the ice cream van, to cool off and regain our composure, then we left fully sated and satisfied that it would (n't) happen again. Thank the lord dreams are free, else I'd be perpetually bankrupt!
I cannot believe this. How often does this happen that there is an actual business that will come out and drain it??? Here you would have to get it towed (Home if you could do it) to a dealer who would then charge too much, probably do a crappy job and only drain most and then try and just add gas to mix it in and run it through.... Then telling you that YOU ruined the bike even though you never started it... OR They would remove the tank to completely drain it but tell you that the parts in the tank were ruined and that AFTER that they would run it to see if YOU ruined anything else... Rex
Looks like an AA van, which is just a normal Breakdown Service. I should imagine this happens a lot more with cars, so makes it viable to have one or more vans kitted out just for such idiots.....
Still. With all the pollution issues and liability issues... Nobody here would do that on someone else's property... Rex
This was me. According to Mr AA man, apparently 50 times a day on average just with the AA across the UK....
Wow, a quick search did not return anything until something from the UK came up. Maybe it doesnt pay enough? Or maybe the pollution/fuel spill laws are tougher here... Rex
Do you have Diesel pumps nozzles on the same pump as gas/petrol in the US. I seem to remember that your pumps are separated, so you need to be really in the wrong place to fill up with diesel. Our pumps over here have nozzle colours and layouts that change from fuel station to fuel station, so easy to pick the wrong one if you aren't looking closely and running on autopilot.......go on, ask me how I know!
We do. four in a row. Only when they specifically want to serve trucks is there a separate island. Diesel handle is usually green. Rex
That's no going to end well for UK tourists. In the UK petrol is green, diesel black. I do seem to remember this from a visit to the States a few years back when we had a hire car.
There are a couple businesses in n ireland do this, all fuel removed has to be metered etc for vat purposes , tightly regulated.
The AA, (a breakdown service here in the UK) syphon the contaminated fuel out of your tank & it's pumped into a tank in the back of their van, which you can see in the picture. It is then disposed of humainly, not dumped down the street grid or dumped in someone's front garden !!
I understand completely. It just doesnt happen here. I am guessing for environmental reasons/fears... We have the AAA. As far as i can tell they do not do it.
So what happens when the luckless Brit tourist grabs the pump with the green handle to fill his hire car with gas only to discover when he starts the engine he’s filled it with diesel and fubared the cat? How does he get the vehicle going again? There must be someone in the US does it
