Diesel Spills - anyone watch BBC Breakfast this morning?

They had an article aboutpeople putting unleaded into their diesels.

They were filming a woman filling her black Megane with diesel. They then showed her pulling the nozzle out with loads of diesel still coming out....

What a silly bint.... no wonder she'd put unleaded in the car in the past....

Well I expect there to be fuel spills in the forecourt

But its out on the road that it annoys me. I see trails of what could be fuel spillage every day

And it never gets cleaned up

Matt

[Biker Biggles]

We moan about the price of fuel(see other thread)but it obviously isnt expensive enough if these Fwits can afford to spill it down the road.
The answer is legislation to enforce fuel tanks that cant spill fuel out if overfilled and the vehicle then taken round a corner a bit quick.Oh and a couple of high profile prosecutions of bus and lorry operaters.

Long story short I almost has a prohibition order placed on a council depot because their contractors were overfilling and spilling.

If you report it, it will get cleaned up. If you wait around for "someone" to do "something" about it, it won't.

I'm sure I'm held in same regard as Victor Meldrew by Bristol Council. But I get results.

Fess up time. A few weeks ago on the M5 my Merc all but ground to a halt - on kickdown the gearbox wouldn't change down again, it jammed in neutral. Scary. Cause was a drain plug had come loose and the gearbox had lost most of its oil. I dread to think where it all went and what might have happened.

But it wasn't deliberate and I didn't know about it. Honest

[Richie]

Originally Posted by Xan173

Long story short I almost has a prohibition order placed on a council depot because their contractors were overfilling and spilling.

If you report it, it will get cleaned up. If you wait around for "someone" to do "something" about it, it won't.

I'm sure I'm held in same regard as Victor Meldrew by Bristol Council. But I get results.

Top Bloke... good man.

Originally Posted by Xan173

Long story short I almost has a prohibition order placed on a council depot because their contractors were overfilling and spilling.

If you report it, it will get cleaned up. If you wait around for "someone" to do "something" about it, it won't.

I'm sure I'm held in same regard as Victor Meldrew by Bristol Council. But I get results.

Originally Posted by Ed

Fess up time. A few weeks ago on the M5 my Merc all but ground to a halt - on kickdown the gearbox wouldn't change down again, it jammed in neutral. Scary. Cause was a drain plug had come loose and the gearbox had lost most of its oil. I dread to think where it all went and what might have happened.

But it wasn't deliberate and I didn't know about it. Honest

much damage to the merc??

Originally Posted by Ed

Fess up time. A few weeks ago on the M5 my Merc all but ground to a halt - on kickdown the gearbox wouldn't change down again, it jammed in neutral. Scary. Cause was a drain plug had come loose and the gearbox had lost most of its oil. I dread to think where it all went and what might have happened.

But it wasn't deliberate and I didn't know about it. Honest

Very common fault on the mercs (C class is it?) by bad design. Merc should pick up some of the costs for repair.

Yep it's a C200. No lasting damage (that I can tell) - fixed under warranty. I was on the way to Cornwall at the time, and it kept doing it while there, so the Merc garage in Truro fixed it as an emergency, it wasn't safe to drive it home. Scary when you suddenly have no power. I shudder to think what happened to the oil - a gearbox full must be a few litres, no?