I had decided that I should have a nice quite Sunday to help me recover from the hectic week. Why is it that every time I try to relax it never works out? Sunday morning for me started bright and early. In fact, by 10 am I already had five of our engineers out on …
Here is the question for those who are reading this was the customer the real “Tom Hardy” of Hollywood fame? This was a little more tricky than the average fuel drain I have to be honest, Tom Hardy had filled his beloved Land Rover Dicovery 2 with half a tank of Unleaded and driven it …
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3pm yesterday afternoon I recieved a telephone call from a lovely lady that went by the name of mrs Pitchford, she had a slight problem as she had done the easy mistake of putting petrol into her diesel Ford fiesta on her way to a doctors appointment! Between the two of us we decided it …
Late Thursday Evening I had a call out for a fuel drain in Falkirk, Scotland for a Range rover sport. Stuart ( The Customer) had gone to fill his tank full, for his trip home to sunny Hull, England. However he managed to pump his lovely brand new Range rover sport with £100 of petrol …
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What’s the most common thing I hear when our unlucky customers call to ask for a fuel drain after having put petrol into their diesel, or diesel into their petrol? Almost one for one they tell me that they can’t believe that they’ve misfueled and they are deeply embarrassed and annoyed. If you’re reading this …
Question: What’s worse than misfueling your car? Answer: Doing in twice in the same day! This is the sad story for one of our customers. He shall remain nameless to save him from any further embarrassment – let’s call him Mr X. Nevertheless I thought I would share his story with you as a warning …
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The joys of being on call. Last night I rushed out to a job in Shepherds bush, London whilst in the cinema !!! Tyrone had gone and filled up his newly purchased Smart car with petrol rather than diesel after a long day in the office. There was a slight upside to this he was …
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Early Last week I had a call from a gentleman named Tony, he had gone and done the silly thing of putting £30 of petrol into his work van(Ford Transit) at the Shell garage in East Grinstead. Tony thought this was going to muck up his whole day waiting around for a call out. Fortunately …
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It’s not quite summer yet but the weather has been so fantastic that a lot of our customers have been out and about enjoying the sun and warmth. One particular middle-aged gentleman up in the Scottish Borders decided to do a bit of touring on his classic Yamaha TDM 850. If you’ve never seen one …
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