Feeling silly

[Rustinho]

My wife's grandad filled up their diesel car with petrol a year or so ago. I can't remember what the car was but they have a Peugeot 209 now and it was about the same size.

Anyways, he filled the tank with petrol instead of diesel and drove it no more than 3 or 4 miles at the most (most probably only a mile or so at a guess given where their local garage is) before it conked out.

At first he swore blind it wasn't him that put the petrol in, then he said that the petrol station must have switched the pumps over. It was almost funny! He never did admit responsibility for it but everyone knew that he just made a simple mistake and smiled and nodded at his insistance that it couldn't possibly be him...

Either way, the car died a death cos the fuel had got through to the engine and it was too expensive/difficult to bother repairing (the wife's grandad has always run old heaps cos he's pretty handy with a set of spanners although he is getting more frail than he used to be although he's doing pretty well for someone in his 70s!) which makes the 15 miles your mate's wife is claiming sound pretty fanciful. Sounds like she is either exaggerating something or trying to hide something to me...

[gwh200]

Ah...I put just under half a tank of petrol in a diesel surf. It ran quite well?

[Predictable Bob]

As somebody who knows little about fuel I have a question to ask the assembled experts ...

Is it possible that the idiot had a sufficient quantity of diesel in the tank and then added sufficient petrol to make the resultant mix maginally effective i.e. it will run while hot (Albeit banging and clattering like a ten bob whore) but when cold it wouldn't fire up ?

I know that some engines used by the military were allegedly 'multi-fuel' and would apparently run on anything from fermented grass cuttings to Biohazzard p!ss but I don't know whether they require any changes when switching fuels - my mate's Stalwart WILL run on petrol with a significant amount of diesel contamination ...

[Voodoo-Child]

It sounds more like she was lying. If the contents of her tank were mostly petrol, she wasn't going to get 15 miles.

Tell Aaron his mate's wife's shagging someone who lives in that area.

U aint seen her mate...I doubt her husband can even stomach mounting it.....

[Voodoo-Child]

If she put petrol in just as the light has come on...then there could have been around 5 litres of fuel in th car give or take.....ten quid only gives about 7 litres anyway these days...so a 50/50 mix would make a diesel car run...it would run lika a bag of sh*t....but it would run. We're talking about a woman here, her car is simply a mode of transport....if it was running like a bag of shit she wouldnt notice....I've seen women drivin around on flat tyres and not known......women driving cars with no friction material left on their brake pads and just thought it was 'getting a bit noisy'.

I've worked on engines of all kinds since the age of 13 or 14, when you live and work on a farm you have to. I got fed up with working for family by age 20 so went to college gaining my City and Guilds levels 1,2 and 3 in the repair and servicing of Motor Vehicles.....I worked for 2 years in a commercial environment and decided I didnt want to fix cars etc for a living, I wanted to keep it as my hobby cos I was getting sick of working on humdrum and then being too tired to then play with my own cars when I got home. I went into sales and did very well for 10 years or so, then I met my beautiful fiance, we had kids and I stopped working to allow her to carry on doing her (2nd) masters degree. She passed with flying colours and found the job she has now and I went self employed repairing cars for people I know and their friends...I buy and sell the odd car too, whatever keeps the wolves away ...so, my life in summary......I have almost as much general knowledge as any other self confessed mechanic in here...I am no specialist in any particular field an neither do I prefess to be clever...but I know my sh*t too....so DONT belittle me and call me a liar just cos I have experienced something that you maybe havent. Its rude and extremely small minded.

I have no reason to lie, I'm only here cos I have a Surf.
Next time you want to insult me....lets arrange a meeting, i'll gladly let you say whatever you want to, if I dont like it....I'll gladly rip you a nice new anal passage....

[Voodoo-Child]

Well half his names right.

I take my apology back...you, sir, are still (in my opinion) a prick.

[BioHazard]

I take my apology back...you, sir, are still (in my opinion) a prick.

I am amazed you are still here ......Ford Prefect got Banned for calling someone a P**** and He posted less than you

[Voodoo-Child]

I'm callin you what you are....truth hurts eh? I wonder how many others in here think the same but are scared to say it....cos of the sort of treatment I have been getting on and off.

I react, most wont....get over it.

[Sancho]

I'm callin you what you are....truth hurts eh? I wonder how many others in here think the same but are scared to say it....cos of the sort of treatment I have been getting on and off.

I react, most wont....get over it.

You're talking to a different person....

[Voodoo-Child]

You're talking to a different person....

Aww crap....sorry Bio Hazard

[Rustinho]

http://www.youtube.com/user/IFCLondo...11/3YJI9S5Yq3U

[Voodoo-Child]

I've done sweet fa to anyone in here....but I always end the brunt of someones pathetic attempts at ridicule. Its pathetic tbh....I dont need 'advice' from anyone in here....I'll carry on as I was......the last 4 days have been among the most stressful i've experienced online. This isn't relaxing whatsoever.

[gwh200]

Bye then. Again.

[gwh200]

http://www.youtube.com/user/IFCLondo...11/3YJI9S5Yq3U

You're a VERY naughty boy.

[Rustinho]

Bye then. Again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aI2MwwEj8o