#36

:smiley: but also :frowning2:

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#37

Was doing some searches to scope it out whilst waiting for the recovery from the petrol (& DIESEL!) station…

:dizzy_face::scream::money_mouth_face::astonished::fearful: Fffffffuuuuuck.

Also:

See also: googling illness symptoms and thinking you’ve got 6 weeks to live.

Current status: they took the car and refunded the deposit and said they’d let me know in advance of any charges. Hmmmmm. End result, TBC, could be one of:

  • no charge - happy days
  • a couple or three hundred hundred quid charge for the call out - fair diddles, but there’ll be a gripey letter about how no-one told me it was a diesel, there was nothing on the paperwork to confirm as much, there were NO STICKERS IN THE CAR, and the teeny tiny sticker inside the folder cap door is wholly insufficient for a hire car
  • £1000: the full excess on the hire, because theme decided to do loads of follow up work - harrumph, very gripey letter, see how it goes
  • stealth charge of £xxxxx - fuck off, mates, the car has done 400+ miles without a hitch since being drained and refilled and if you didn’t want it driven without giving it a proper look over you shouldn’t have let your agent mechanic let me drive off in it

Genuinely still miffed at how something so potentially catastrophic mechanically can happen so easily. As it does to 400 odd people a day, apparently.

Fucking USB cables won’t connect upside down… yet, in 2016, you can fill a car with the wrong fuel and drive it away can potentially cause tens of thousands of pounds worth of damage.

#38

Was this an old motor? You shouldn’t be able to fit a petrol nozzle into a diesel hole. I found myself absentmindedly trying to mash a petrol nozzle into my diesel hole but fortunately it wouldn’t go.

#39

Happy Filth Day everyone!

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#41

Diesel nozzles are bigger than petrol ones, and it’s perfectly possible to put petrol in a diesel tank.

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#42

No, mine has a misfuelling protection device. Would have thought that all new cars have that.

#43

Police forces spend thousands of pounds every year on cops filling up their cars with the wrong stuff. Classic bit of FOI from local papers, always got something out of it.

#44

No. Fords and Volkswagons do, but not too many others, I don’t think.

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#45

A colleague of mine did this on a hire car a while ago. Assumed it was diesel, as most hire cars tend to be and filled 'er up.

I could understand the idiot off the street doing it, but this person drives for a living - You’d think they’d have noticed they were driving a petrol vehicle and not a diesel one

#46

Putting diesel into a petrol tank is harder to do, as the diesel nozzle is usually bigger than the petrol tank hole.

#47

It was a new Astra.

Nice-looking two door thing.

#48

as most hire cars tend to be*

*[citation needed]

#49

Would have thought that all new cars have that.

Indeed @anon29812515 , indeed. Maybe we can ruddy bloody well require it across the board now that we’ve taken our ruddy bloody country back.

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#50

if only you could fly
(limp bizkit style)

#52

Only had one petrol hire car out of probably 15. More economical innit seeing as people generally use hire cars to go on long trips. Doubt I’d have got 62mpg out of a petrol car doing a steady 90 up the M40 last week.

The diesel ones always have had a big yellow tag that says DIESEL on them. I’m sure the petrol one had nothing, as though the default fuel to put in a car is petrol but for diesel you need to be told.

#53

check out Mr Train Knowledge here

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#54

Fair diddles. Pretty sure I’ve had a mixture. In any case, this is what greeted me when I went to refuel. (With no indication to be found on the interior.)

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Ridic. Can’t believe I actually noticed that piddly little sticker, to be tbh.

#55

Yeah seems a poor effort from the hire company to not put a tag on the key and a sticker on or next to the filler

#56

The key

See, the key is kinda what threw me and semi-started this fandango. The key wasn’t even needed! The lid just popped open and the cap just screwed off. What kind of pisspoor anti-siphoning security is that?

#58

Ah. Makes sense, I guess.