bad fuel
Submitted: Friday, Jul 15, 2016 at 19:23
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Member - mechpete
Got a tank of bad fuel yesterday at mt barnett
Roadhouse bad enough in the old td42 limping to kununara thank god it wasn.t a late model common rail who knows what would have been
Mechpete
Reply By: eaglefree - Friday, Jul 15, 2016 at 21:48
Friday, Jul 15, 2016 at 21:48
" or are you unfairly blaming a good business"?
The is an important question. Sorry for your issues mechpete.
See innocence before proven guilt was an important factor in our justice system. It still might be but social media in particular has become a way of bypassing this crutial rule in civilised society.
Now its name and shame. Eg. Owner of new expensive or cheap caravan parked in front yard comes
home to find it gone. Ring police. While waiting rolls the CCTV camera to view male in flouro vest knocked on the door early in the afternoon. No one
home. Male must have then stolen his van.
Owner takes snap shot of suspect puts on Facebook. Anyone know this theif?
Police interview then leaves. Owner gets messages about the theif. He's known all over as the local telco man. He was responding to owners wife reporting a faulty phone line.
Telco worker messages owner "a law suit is headed your way Mr van owner."
Police knock on door. Asks owner if he put the handbrake on after he parked it? "Why" he asked
"Because strong winds must have rocked it and it took off down the
hill through the fence and into the back of that house down there.
" oh no ..cried the owner...who lives there"? "Think some poor guy that is a telco....."
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Reply By: Michael ( Moss Vale NSW) - Saturday, Jul 16, 2016 at 17:08
Saturday, Jul 16, 2016 at 17:08
I copped a tank of bad Diesel fuel years ago, a tanker was just leaving as i pulled up. Its more to do with the ground tank than the tanker, if the tanks are very low, they get stirred up, if the ground tank is say half full, filling up straight away should be Ok. So normally it is the servos fault, either poorly maintained tanks and or low tanks before refilling. A servo owner once told me he used a dispersant in his tanks to keep them clean. So you can look at it two ways, either everyone is copping a small amount of crap in each tank from there or he has very clean tanks.. BP paid for the tank and line clean, it cost me nothing other than the inconvenience! Michael
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Reply By: David T6 - Tuesday, Jul 19, 2016 at 06:26
Tuesday, Jul 19, 2016 at 06:26
We also did the GRR in June and stopped at Mt Barnett. When we left the next day, there was a guy broken down in his Patrol 10k east of Mt B who had filled up at EL q the day before and had fuel issues ever since.
He was in a bit of trouble as he was looking in the vehicle handbook for guidance. I stopped, drained the filter, reprimed and got him going again. Told him to change the filter when he got to Mt B. Filter, sorry don't have one he said!
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