I'm officially a Plank

[ByronBlack]

Not content with locking myself out of my house last week, or assembling the base of my tablesaw the wrong way round, or even buying skirting board that is too narrow, I've topped the lot by filling my diesel van with the finest unleaded petrol

Doh! So, this morning has cost me £35 quid for unleaded, £112 for AA recovery, a further £50 to have the tank drained, and then £40 for some more diesel.

What is going on? Really turning into a crap month!

 

[herdsman]

Hi Byron,

So days go that way for whatever reason, on the upside things can only get better .

Try and have a relaxing weekend!

 

[TonyW]

..I've topped the lot by filling my diesel van with the finest unleaded petrol

Doh! So, this morning has cost me £35 quid for unleaded, £112 for AA recovery, a further £50 to have the tank drained, and then £40 for some more diesel.

I can sympathise as I have done this once myself - I was lucky my company actually paid for it!!
Still try to find a bright side to this incident - it could have been worse if you had a petrol car with a catalytic converter and filled it with diesel the cat would be destroyed causing much more expense. From my experience you will now be somewhat paranoid when filling the tank

Cheers
Tony

 

[woodbloke]

Hey BB, you really have lost your mojo this time...hope I don't make the same mistake with the Landy 8-[...long as you put proper planks thru' the SIP - Rob

 

[RogerM]

Byron - you've still had a better week than Alastair Darling or Steve McLaren (or maybe not, given that he's been paid £2.5m as a payoff. I'd happily fail for half that!)

 

[cambournepete]

Steve McLaren (or maybe not, given that he's been paid £2.5m as a payoff. I'd happily fail for half that!)

I'll do the job, get found out after 6 months and collect a fortune...
Sounds all right to me

 

[Woodmagnet]

Is that Byron i see.................

:lol:

 

[mailee]

Byron, DON'T USE THAT TABLESAW this week! :shock:

 

[ByronBlack]

Too late mailee - just been out to calibrate the mitre gauge and fence. I still have all my fingers.

 

[Waka]

Byron - you've still had a better week than Alastair Darling or Steve McLaren (or maybe not, given that he's been paid £2.5m as a payoff. I'd happily fail for half that!)

I can never understand how someone can get the sack and end up with a fantastic pay off, it also happens in industry. Should we be paying for peoples incompetence?

 

[mr]

Too late mailee - just been out to calibrate the mitre gauge and fence. I still have all my fingers.

But the calibration is hollyhocks. Be careful BB

I can never understand how someone can get the sack and end up with a fantastic pay off, it also happens in industry. Should we be paying for peoples incompetence?

It's to do with protecting the value of the position rather than the incumbent, madness perhaps (or perhaps not depending on your point of view) but rampant practice none the less - look at the recent happenings in the world of merchant banking for example

Cheers Mike

 

[tenpin]

Byron

actually, your quite lucky..if you got away with just a tank drain and refill.
i work for a 4x4 dealers and if you fill the latest diesel engines with unleaded and drive till it stops, a good chance you'll walk away with a £6k bill....new engine and complete new fuel system....

Nick

 

[ByronBlack]

Byron

actually, your quite lucky..if you got away with just a tank drain and refill.
i work for a 4x4 dealers and if you fill the latest diesel engines with unleaded and drive till it stops, a good chance you'll walk away with a £6k bill....new engine and complete new fuel system....

Nick

I noticed as soon as I put the pump down so the engine was never turned over before the drain, it did mean I had to sit in the freezing cold waiting for the AA to arrive.

 

[cant-weld-wood]

one lucky man.
i have changed many fuel pumps tanks and fuel lines
due to people doing the same thing.
as tenpin said it is avery expensive thing to do on the
newer cars the latest one i did was a freelander turbo diesel and it was just under 3 years old with the bmw engine due to damage in the engine it was cheaper for the guy to buy a new car than replace they parts and pay for the labour as the insurance company wont pay out out as it was his mistake.
the guy i worked for bought it from him in the state it was in after replacing the parts on the car he then sold it on and only take £200 profit when sold.
and thats was with out paying labour

 

[OPJ]

Don't worry Byron, those Petrol people are out to get you!

Even if you can avoid the Diesel tank, some garages - but not all of them! - offer Super Unleaded as well as normal Unleaded!

What's the all about then?! Does it make my car go faster? :wink:

 

[ByronBlack]

I think 'super' diesel makes the engine sound 1% less like an old tank

 

[DaveL]

some garages - but not all of them! - offer Super Unleaded as well as normal Unleaded!

What's the all about then?! Does it make my car go faster? :wink:

Olly,

Super unleaded has a higher octane rating and in a high performance engine will produce more bhp. You don't necessarily go faster but the acceleration is often quicker. My son has a GSXR 1000 and that is quicker on the super unleaded. :shock:

 

[Paul Chapman]

some garages - but not all of them! - offer Super Unleaded as well as normal Unleaded!

What's the all about then?! Does it make my car go faster? :wink:

Some cars have a higher compression ratio and are designed to run on higher octane petrol (usually known as Super Unleaded) - they will "pink" if you use too low an octane rating and eventually it will cause damage to the engine. But it's OK to use higher octane petrol in an engine designed to use lower octane petrol; in fact it can sometimes result in better performance, but not enough to justify the extra cost of the higher octane.

Cheers :wink:

Paul

PS Normal unleaded has an octane rating of 95 and Super unleaded 98 or 99 (assuming the tanker driver puts the correct petrol in the correct hole, of course )

 

[andycktm]

If the car is a "closed loop" system (ie BMW) it has the ability to adjust
the engine parameters (tune)to suit better fuel.