Has anyone else had trouble with filling up ther vehicle with water instead of diesel at a filling station?
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I don't live over there so I can't answer that question. However, getting diesel with water contaminants will damage your engine! It blows the tips off the injectors then allowing an uncontrolled fuel pattern to which your engine may obtain major damage! I'd definitely find another brand station for my fuel needs! I don't know where "mike hamms" gets his imformation but he obviously knows nothing about diesel engines! A little water is just as devestating as a lot of water in a diesel engine!
The station actually vended water over diesel?
Oh! God. In India the bunks adultrate petrol / diesel with kerosene but never with water. Probably US is the leading democratic nation and may be we would experience this also after some point of time.
Yes! It was a long time ago, in fact it was 22 years ago, in the U.S.A., my then-husband was a coast-to-coast truck driver. We were in the mid-west, at they had had a lot of rain recently. Well, apparently the rain had seeped into their in-ground fuel tanks where we stopped to fill up. The truck started running like crap, but as we got further west, a snow storm hit. We were stuck in Trinity Colorado for 4 days, because all that water in the lines froze up EVERYTHING! It was a complete nightmare for us. They had to pull the tanks and clean and dry them out, plus it was like 6 degrees below freezing, and the poor garage had hairdryers and small heaters and curling irons and just anything that would generate heat strapped to the engine of our truck to thaw the darn thing out. What a nightmare! Good luck with yours.
some cool mornings under the rite conditions you can get water from gas stationd as it settles to the bottom of the tank i pulled 2 galons out of a car a couple of years ago it can get in there after a rain storm if they dont put the cap on tight and condensation alyays ads a little
Yes the storage tank had a condensation problem. The station should be liable if you can get the authorities to check it for moisture its not hard to do all. They make a special paste which is applied to a long stick. Probe it into the storage tank and the paste will turn a different color if water is present. Good Luck
it seems to happen a lot more these days. It is not intentional. The water is usually heavier than diesel and will settle to the bottom of the storage tank. However with so many loads going in and out it keeps stirred up. When My dad fills the station he drops a stick into the tank with a chemical on the end to see how much water is in it. if it is much then he pumps from the bottom and gets it out. All Semi trucks have a separator in the fuel line to keep the water out of the engine. A Little tiny bit will not hurt and will actually make the car run better under controlled circumstances.
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