Pretty bad day yesterday (stupid wife)

Demon said:
By your own logic, you where idiotic and binned your car of your own accord, surely that qualifies you for the same treatment? surely if you can't drive according to conditions (which even my mum can do), you must be a buffoon of the biggest order??
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Absolutely! It was perhaps the biggest display of idoicy I've managed in my life so far. I make no secret of that.

I don't then cry and try and pretend it wasn't an idiotic thing to do.

Like people who misfuel cars seem to do...
 
[TW]Fox;17015831 said:
Absolutely! It was perhaps the biggest display of idoicy I've managed in my life so far. I make no secret of that.

I don't then cry and try and pretend it wasn't an idiotic thing to do.

Like people who misfuel cars seem to do...
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So you are dozy/thick and should be confined to public transport then?

Did you live by your own rules then? did you sell your car and take the bus? No? Shocking..

You wouldn't have massive double standards or anything then?

:D
 
Demon said:
So you are dozy/thick and should be confined to public transport then?
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On that particular day I think ti would have been better, yes :D

But if I made a habit of it, like many misfuellers do, then perhaps driving would not be the best pastime for me.
 
My mate ran half a tank of petrol through his E class diesel, said it was rough for a bit but fine.......when it went back the the lease company.
 
Diesel is a bigger nozzle as it's more dangerous to run diesel through a petrol engine due to it's ignition being from compression. At least that's what I've been informed of, how likely it is to actually happen is something I'd need to look into.

Get at least one person a week who wrongly puts unleaded in at work, always amusing when they try to blame the garage for it, 'the nozzles are colour coded sir, the pump displays what is being dispensed and no, our diesel tanks are not filled with unleaded as otherwise we'd have a queue of people up the A3 all broken down with the wrong fuel in their tanks and you are the only one so far, give us a call back in ten minutes to see if you're unlucky number one, can I get you the number of a local breakdown recovery service?'
 
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Dano said:
Diesel is a bigger nozzle as it's more dangerous to run diesel through a petrol engine due to it's ignition being from compression. At least that's what I've been informed of, how likely it is to actually happen is something I'd need to look into.

Get at least one person a week who wrongly puts unleaded in at work, always amusing when they try to blame the garage for it, 'the nozzles are colour coded sir, the pump displays what is being dispensed and no, our diesel tanks are not filled with unleaded as otherwise we'd have a queue of people up the A3 all broken down with the wrong fuel in their tanks and you are the only one so far, give us a call back in ten minutes to see if you're unlucky number one, can I get you the number of a local breakdown recovery service?
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My missus misfuelled our lawn-mower with diesel, I just emptied the tank, refiilled with Petrol, and after some initial 'smoke' it's running better then ever.. She was so sorry, she burst into tears, thinking it was an engine wrecking moment, not realising it was relatively OK to make the mistake this way around, she burst into tears, I just laughed.

Not sure a 2HP Honda mower engine is as technologically advanced as a modern petrol, but I'm sure as far as ignition goes, it's applicable?

Where as, the last person I know who misfuelled petrol in a diesel (golf) cost £800.. Luckily he claimed it back on the company, I as a passenger in the car, so he couldn't hide it from everyone else, needless to say, we still hang 'diesel' signs around the fuel filler cap of the company cars just before he takes one, just for the lolz..
 
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Demon said:
I'll just say that the fact you personally can't see your gross intolerance (which is on a comedic Jeremy Clarkson level) does not mean it doesn't exist.

By your own logic, you where idiotic and binned your car of your own accord, surely that qualifies you for the same treatment? surely if you can't drive according to conditions (which even my mum can do), you must be a buffoon of the biggest order??

Or perhaps, like normal people, the rest of us think it was just a moment of madness and a momentary lapse, and accept that momentary lapses occur to most people at one time or another, so tolerate it...

:)
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Oh god, thank you for saving me the time to write the same thing.

I do honestly think, much to your annoyance no doubt Fox, that if you stepped away from the internet and the endless arguments that you revel in for a decent period, that you'd realise the world exists in a slight different plane to that which exists on these internet forums.

The wife's reaction to the situation must be annoying as hell, I'm well with everyone on that, but your reaction to this (and pretty much everything on ere) is as as Demon says, comical. It appears you literally cannot take a step back and put things in perspective.

But anyway, I'll step back and stop driveling on like an old fart. :p
 
On a side note I've had untold gallons of diesel via my mate & the ones he recovers. :cool:
 
Demon said:
My missus misfuelled our lawn-mower with diesel, I just emptied the tank, refiilled with Petrol, and after some initial 'smoke' it's running better then ever.. She was so sorry, she burst into tears, thinking it was an engine wrecking moment, not realising it was relatively OK to make the mistake this way around, she burst into tears, I just laughed.

Not sure a 2HP Honda mower engine is as technologically advanced as a modern petrol, but I'm sure as far as ignition goes, it's applicable?
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Not really, unless she actually tried to run the thing with diesel in the tank and not diesel watered down with petrol. Like I said, I've no idea of how likely it is to cause a fire or explosion but I guess that there must have been some evidence to suggest it was safer to allow petrol into diesel engines than the other way around, discounting conspiracy theories from engine manufacturers and fuel producers of course :D
 
Dano said:
Not really, unless she actually tried to run the thing with diesel in the tank and not diesel watered down with petrol. Like I said, I've no idea of how likely it is to cause a fire or explosion but I guess that there must have been some evidence to suggest it was safer to allow petrol into diesel engines than the other way around, discounting conspiracy theories from engine manufacturers and fuel producers of course :D
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Years ago with older diesels, i'm pretty sure it was by far better to mistakenly put petrol in a diesel compared to diesel in a petrol, however with newer common rail engines, the situation has changed somewhat and putting petrol into a modern diesel can be very costly.
 
[TW]Fox;17015769 said:
Perhaps you should get some life experience?
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So Fox, if your friend put the wrong fuel in, you are telling me you wouldn't make a sarky comment everytime he/she filled up for years afterwards?

I don't see what life experience has to do with putting the wrong fuel in:confused:
 
Dano said:
Not really, unless she actually tried to run the thing with diesel in the tank and not diesel watered down with petrol. Like I said, I've no idea of how likely it is to cause a fire or explosion but I guess that there must have been some evidence to suggest it was safer to allow petrol into diesel engines than the other way around, discounting conspiracy theories from engine manufacturers and fuel producers of course :D
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When it spluttered, she checked the fuel tank, it was empty, so filled it with diesel, and it ran for a few seconds, then die'd.. and once petrol was re-introduced, ran very well indeed..

I really can't find any evidence to remotely suggest diesel in a petrol is anywhere near as bad as petrol in a diesel (in modern times)..

Perhaps the idea's are old now, and things have reversed..
 
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