Husband And Wife SC Team

[Lace Neil Singer]

This happened yesterday. About halfway thru the day, this guy came in saying that he'd put the wrong fuel in his car. He'd put £30 of unleaded in a diesel car. He paid, then waved away our offer of giving him the number to these dudes who have a flourishing business siphoning out fuel from people's tanks when they put the wrong type in. He said he was going to call the AA and we left it at that, after telling him to push the car off the forecourt to free up the pump, cuz it was busy. He agreed and left.

Now comes the suck. Husband pushed the car, containing his wife, into the tanker bay. No parking is allowed there, under any circumstances; if a delivery happens and the bay is blocked or parked in, the tanker driver will just turn around and leave and we get a £500 fine. Husband dumps the car there, then calls a cab and bogs off, leaving his wife in the car so it looks as tho she was the one who put the wrong fuel in the tank.

Was the wife sucky? Oh yes, she was. Since we had a delivery due, my collegue Jim went out to ask the wife if he could push her car into the corner and off the tanker bay. She refused point blank and shouted abuse at him. He came back and told the manager, Tessa, and I. Tessa was livid. Honestly, I have seen her yell at a guy who refused to put his mobile away on the forecourt and reduce him to jelly. XD

Tessa and Jim then went out to the car and, without bothering to talk to Sucky Wife, pushed it out of the tanker bay and into the corner. Sucky Wife was cursing and swearing all thru this, but they ignored her. Once she was installed in the corner, they left her to it. The tanker arrived about five minutes after this.

[Zellie Crescent]

I don't get it, why was she still in the car? Why didn't she go with her husband?

[EvilEmpryss]

I'm trying to picture how someone can put the wrong type of gas in a car. Are the pumps not clearly labelled "Unleaded" and "Diesel"? Did he not know he was driving a car that ran on diesel?

I could understand putting in 87 octane instead of 92 (or whatever), and *maybe* getting confused if it's a rental that's different from your usual car, but you said this stuff happens regularly?

It boggles the mind.

[Green_Fairy]

I don't get it, why was she still in the car? Why didn't she go with her husband?

probably so they couldn't tow the car as abandoned.

and i agree with the empryss. how does this happen? are people really that daft? oh wait...yes. yes they are. *le sigh*

so...what happened with the car?

[EvilEmpryss]

probably so they couldn't tow the car as abandoned.

That, and most car clubs require someone to be at the vehicle when they arrive to assist you. Keeps them from getting pranked by a disgruntled ex into towing someone else's car.

[bsaana]

Simple explanation: People are IDIOTS!

Hope that helps.

[Crossbow]

I'm trying to picture how someone can put the wrong type of gas in a car. Are the pumps not clearly labelled "Unleaded" and "Diesel"? Did he not know he was driving a car that ran on diesel?

I could understand putting in 87 octane instead of 92 (or whatever), and *maybe* getting confused if it's a rental that's different from your usual car, but you said this stuff happens regularly?

It boggles the mind.

I don't think it happens all that often, but I did have an old car that I did exactly that with. It was marked to run on Leaded gas (yes, it was that old, and I was young), but I hadn't noticed that my usual gas station had switched all of their pumps to Unleaded. The previous week, the pump I had used was Leaded gas. I noticed when I went to pay. Not that the car cared one way or another. It drove fine, even without any sort of additive.

[MrsEclipse]

Now comes the suck. Husband pushed the car, containing his wife, into the tanker bay. No parking is allowed there, under any circumstances; if a delivery happens and the bay is blocked or parked in, the tanker driver will just drive on top of the car and flatten it without ever noticing something was there.

Oh, well. We can dream, can't we?

[Lace Neil Singer]

XD We were actually joking about that happening.

And yeah; pumps are clearly labeled and colour coded. Unleaded and super are green, diesel is yellow.

That, and most car clubs require someone to be at the vehicle when they arrive to assist you. Keeps them from getting pranked by a disgruntled ex into towing someone else's car.

Quoted for truth. If you have to call the AA out, you do need to have at least one person staying with the car.

[Automan Empire]

This is surprisingly common. It is usually diesel put into a gasoline car. In this case, the car usually dies as they are pulling it out of the station.

A majority of people just tell us, "Oh, it just died while I was driving!" It makes for a difficult diagnosis. All vital signs testing good... this good... that good... Hey! That's not gasoline!

If you put gasoline in a diesel, it will make an awful racket and be ruinied within a minute, if you try to drive. At least the SC was that smart.

As far as being posessive of a non parking space at someone else's property, well, that is sadly common too.

[slavetotheman]

Automan - I thought it was darn nigh impossible to put diesel into a gasoline car because the diesel pump nozzles are wider than gasoline pump nozzles... or do I have it backwards?

[Lace Neil Singer]

The stupid can't be stopped by such little things!

This is actually a sadly common occurance; which is why we have the petrol siphon guys' phone number ready to hand out. O_O

[trailerparkmedic]

Automan - I thought it was darn nigh impossible to put diesel into a gasoline car because the diesel pump nozzles are wider than gasoline pump nozzles... or do I have it backwards?

This is true in at least some places. When I was 16 my friend and I went to go put gas in her car, and it took us a good 5 minutes to figure out why the nozzle wouldn't fit in her tank.

[slavetotheman]

This is true in at least some places. When I was 16 my friend and I went to go put gas in her car, and it took us a good 5 minutes to figure out why the nozzle wouldn't fit in her tank.

No further comment needed, methinks... carry on.

[Midorikawa]

XD We were actually joking about that happening.

And yeah; pumps are clearly labeled and colour coded. Unleaded and super are green, diesel is yellow.

Interesting. Where are you? Here in the US, diesel is green, gasoline is black, yellow, or red depending on octane level, and diesel has a larger nozzle that won't fit into a gas tank. I could never understand putting another fuel into their car like that. Seems a rather duh sort of thing, but there's people out there who never change oil then wonder why the car doesn't start one day, among other atrocities and torturous things committed against the poor cars.