A tale of woe

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Originally Posted by Rosco

Apparently when he approached his insurers, the wee lassie to which he spoke used all her possible tact in explaining to him there's a fine line between an accident and stupidity .... :eek2::imwithstupid::censored:

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I would be changing my insurance company straight away if they wouldn't cover that.

Given that most crashes (not accidents, I hate that term) are caused by stupidity, they should cover it. I have heard of that situation being covered (had an assessor here looking at a vehicle with the same circumstances).

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Originally Posted by spudboy

Yowww - that's going to cost him some big biccies.

Wouldn't it be good if petrol fillers were round and diesel fillers square (or something).........

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You'd only end up with a bunch of bent and squared off petrol nozzles:p:p

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Originally Posted by BigJon

I would be changing my insurance company straight away if they wouldn't cover that.

Given that most crashes (not accidents, I hate that term) are caused by stupidity, they should cover it. I have heard of that situation being covered (had an assessor here looking at a vehicle with the same circumstances).

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That's what I would have thought. My insurer covers it.

Brand new black RR Sport in our street, always parked in the same spot. Turbo Diesel version...... Was missing for three weeks, the haird dresser who owns it filled it up with premium ULP...... $15k rebuild.

That's a lot of haircuts sweetie.

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Originally Posted by mrapocalypse

Brand new black RR Sport in our street, always parked in the same spot. Turbo Diesel version...... Was missing for three weeks, the haird dresser who owns it filled it up with premium ULP...... $15k rebuild.

That's a lot of haircuts sweetie.

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Should have stuck with his Porsche Boxster. They are proper hairdresser cars!

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Originally Posted by spudboy

Yowww - that's going to cost him some big biccies.

Wouldn't it be good if petrol fillers were round and diesel fillers square (or something).........

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i have found in some servo's that you have to lift the flap up before getting the nozzle out {warning diesel fuel written on flap),good idea ,but of course you are still relying on people reading the warning!;)

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Originally Posted by Outback 1

i have found in some servo's that you have to lift the flap up before getting the nozzle out {warning diesel fuel written on flap),good idea ,but of course you are still relying on people reading the warning!;)

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Yep, but you don't need to lift the flap on the unleaded filler to fill your diesel vehicle with petrol do you

In the words of Forest Gump
"stupid is as stupid does"

No where near as dramatic but the trainee at work put 21ltrs of ulp in a 35ltr tank of our greens mower which has a Kubota Diesel in it.

After getting about 1/3rd around the cut it konked it on the edge of a green in which I opened the cap I smelt the petrol and he started running.

I dragged it back off the surround into the long rough and drained the tank into trays and put a jerry of diesel in it while explaining what was happening to about 40 members.

After priming about 10 ltrs through it to try and limit anymore petrol from the system I started it and the only damage was it needed a tappet adjustment so far.

It only has diesel written on the machine next to the filler, and on the cap and the pumps are bright yellow for petrol and green for diesel which is also very clearly marked and 2m apart.

He also had had to read the operators manual before being signed off on using the machine and had been clearly told by myself and the OH&S officer that it was a diesel.

Stupidity comes in all shapes and sizes.

this isnt a realy problem in old school mechanical injected engines...

the new stuff with the extra high pressure injectors however...

(shudder)

its a bit like running an F1 engine without oil...

Have only had it happen once, in reverse though, dopey wife, i can say that!!
who had been driving the pajero regularly(diesel) went shopping one day and took the toyota (petrol) decided to fill the toyota, 30 litres of diesel, it got 2 k's from the shops. Smoking bably and stopped,
tank drained, new filters etc problem fixed.

some people just work in auto mode at servo's
getting what they always get, not reading and so on, so all the signs in the world are not going to make any diference.


john