Fuel theft attempt
- Thread starter Luke
- Start date
Soldato
It is a pretty heavy fine, and i think they can crush your car.
Having said that I'm absolutely certain that every deisel car owned by a farmer round here runs on red, you have to be enormously unlucky to get caught by a dip test (Anyone ever seen one??) and they have a legit use for the stuff so they are unlikely to get caught after being followed back by customs and excise.
Doesn't mean it's a good idea though
Soldato
Greedy *******, I really think they are sad ***** if they go nicking fuel, it's not that bloody expensive.
One of my colleagues has had their windows broken for a pack of cigarettes, they didn't take the satnav which was in the glove box. Some serious dumb monkeys that. Wreck someones window for a 5€ pack of sigarettes, sad *****!
How can people be so desperate to steal&rob for such small profit, I can partly understand bank robbers or someone nicking 5 laptops, smartphones, a tv, etc from someones home, but a pack of cigarettes or some fuel, come on, greedy sons of *******, get a job, lazy ****!
Yeah I hate petty criminals.
One of my colleagues has had their windows broken for a pack of cigarettes, they didn't take the satnav which was in the glove box. Some serious dumb monkeys that. Wreck someones window for a 5€ pack of sigarettes, sad *****!
How can people be so desperate to steal&rob for such small profit, I can partly understand bank robbers or someone nicking 5 laptops, smartphones, a tv, etc from someones home, but a pack of cigarettes or some fuel, come on, greedy sons of *******, get a job, lazy ****!
Yeah I hate petty criminals.
Last edited:
Aye its just petty pathetic plebs. Had my car broken into once and they stole a £5 electric pump. House has been broken into twice and they just took a hoover each time from the hallway. Nothing in the last 5 or so years now though. Still makes you pretty paranoid about everything because of idiots who need a kick in the danglies.
Yep, there was frequently one set up at the entrance of the Blackwall Tunnel and more recently there have been a few along the main road between Rotherham and Doncaster.
If you are caught on red diesel you can expect to be massively penalised. The fine is massive and as stated can include loss of the car.
Soldato
It used to be the case that they only bothered with commercial vehicles, but i guess that could change with prices going the way they are.
Caporegime
I had my fuel lines cut while i was in Middlesbrough.
Stupid idiots cut the return pipe however that returned unused petrol back to the tank so got nothing and resulted in me dribbling petrol everywhere i went !
Horrible Town, and being a student area was a horrible Area too.
Stupid idiots cut the return pipe however that returned unused petrol back to the tank so got nothing and resulted in me dribbling petrol everywhere i went !
Horrible Town, and being a student area was a horrible Area too.
With the explosion of diesel cars on the road now they are less targetted. They still favour battered transits and Defenders to pull, but in the absence of those they will pull anyone in a diesel.
Soldato
It is a pretty heavy fine, and i think they can crush your car.
Having said that I'm absolutely certain that every deisel car owned by a farmer round here runs on red, you have to be enormously unlucky to get caught by a dip test (Anyone ever seen one??) and they have a legit use for the stuff so they are unlikely to get caught after being followed back by customs and excise.
Doesn't mean it's a good idea though
If the punishment doesn't involve a criminal record then people will be doing this a lot. Saving 70p per litre on fuel doesn't take long to save £1,000s if you do big miles!
25,000 miles a year is saving £1,600. Surely the Police would be dipping tanks during random checks? Although I have never even heard of it happening.
Soldato
It's not a police matter, it's customs and excise.
AFAIK it's not actually red anymore either, it has to be chemically tested to prove you're using "red" diesel..
Can you even easily dip a tank on a modern car?
AFAIK it's not actually red anymore either, it has to be chemically tested to prove you're using "red" diesel..
Can you even easily dip a tank on a modern car?
Last edited:
I got dipped maybe 6 weeks ago, so yes I guess so
for the record it was a long whitey see through plastic thing with a pump on the end
that was in Cornwall though where all the inbreds nick the farm diesel
Caporegime
Fuel testing is common, and on the few times I have been stopped & checked, I've noticed, if anything, more cars than Vans & HGV's being tested.
VOSA were running the show at the last check I was in ( just off the M74, a few miles north of the border.)
VOSA were running the show at the last check I was in ( just off the M74, a few miles north of the border.)
Associate
- Joined
- 6 Jul 2008
- Posts
- 1,841
It's more of a question of how much less fuel do you burn not carrying another half a tank of petrol around surely?
Whatever it is, it'll be negated by that trip to the petrol station and back
yep I reckon so, or just blank off 90% of your fuel tank and have a new nozzle thing in the boot
given the cost of diesel you have got me thinking, two of our datacentres have 500 litre red diesel tanks outside them......
Whatever it is, it'll be negated by that trip to the petrol station and back
I drive right past my station on the way to work, it cuts the corner going through the station if anything
I brim it every time though as I like to keep an eye on how bad my mpg is, just love bad news I guess.
Soldato
You can remove the red dye from red diesel anyway, using hydrochloric acid.
Soldato
My mate works at a car auction place and the police did a check on everyone leaving when the auctions closed. He said he was stuck there for an hour waiting until it was his turn. ( he drove a toyota surf at the time ).