This happened to my husband and about 5 other people two weeks ago in south Wales.
2006-10-03 02:27:07 · 9 answers · asked by Andrea P 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Safety
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!
2006-10-04 01:39:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.
2006-10-03 13:49:17 · answer #2 · answered by mikeshammer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please neglect appropriate to the unhelpful and impolite suggestion hun. all and sundry makes errors. Your motor vehicle is by utilising no potential a write off. you will desire to take it or have it taken to a storage. An autonomous storage would be extra low-fee than a important broking. appears like there is too lots diesel and water in the tank to dilute it and the engine in basic terms won't run on the two. they are going to flush out the diesel and water, replace the gasoline filter out, perchance sparkling the spark plugs and placed some petrol in for you. The petrol they put in will help sparkling any residue left interior the engine. additionally they are going to reset the engine administration device to eliminate errors codes and turn of the warning mild. It relatively shouldn't fee too lots, by utilising no potential 1000's, extra like 1000's to repair. it somewhat is an exceedingly user-friendly mistake made so do not sense undesirable. do in basic terms not do it back :-) word to benjamin - it somewhat is not the comparable as flooding the engine with water wherein case you would be splendid approximately it destroying con rods etc. for that reason the gasoline device is in basic terms spraying water in and the valves open to enable it out back. The water has someplace to bypass, in basic terms as unburnt petrol and exhaust gases get expelled from the combustion chambers in generic working
2016-12-15 18:54:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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
2006-10-03 05:25:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.
2006-10-03 02:43:05 · answer #5 · answered by Barbara W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.
2006-10-03 02:42:39 · answer #6 · answered by ssmindia 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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
2006-10-03 03:03:17 · answer #7 · answered by mobile auto repair (mr fix it) 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The station actually vended water over diesel?
2006-10-03 02:28:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
2006-10-04 12:10:06 · answer #9 · answered by kitten6444 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋