Diesel vs gas rant...

[Ikc1990]

So my wife offered to take my truck today to fill full of fuel while. She went down street. She was gone like 4 hrs for a 1 hr trip. I was wondering what was going on, got back in house and saw ashe had called so I called her. So she went to the full service center where the best price is and they pump it for you still. Well we fill that truck there normally 3 times per week on average. Yup never again the guy filled truck full of gasoline duramax has been down with def issues and 1st fill up since we got it back then when he hung up the nossel he says up this is gas right. Um no dumbass. So they had to drain the tank. But now I can't even get ahold of them... im pretty pissed and yup they wont get another dime of my money, used to buy all our diesel there for truck, tractors, gas for car aaand gas for all our small engine orf our old ford tractor. Nope not now... guess Irving here we come.

 

[Nicfin36]

That is irritating I know, which is why I do everything myself when possible. A coworker of mine had a 2011 Scion at work today that he had bought yesterday from a lady for $900. She said the engine was locked up and he was going to put an engine in it. She had recently taken it to an oil change place and had problems with the engine and took it back. They told her it was "locked up" and there was nothing they could do. My coworker loaded it on a trailer and took it home. He found out there was 12 quarts of oil in the engine. He drained it out and it runs fine.

 

[bcp]

Where I've worked that had both gas and diesel equipment, there was a small label beside each filler that told what it needed.

I figured if I ever had a diesel car or truck of my own, I would at least put a label inside the fuel door or on the cap.

Bruce

 

[mikester]

Where I've worked that had both gas and diesel equipment, there was a small label beside each filler that told what it needed.

I figured if I ever had a diesel car or truck of my own, I would at least put a label inside the fuel door or on the cap.

Bruce

I'm willing to bet the gas cap already says "DIESEL FUEL ONLY". I feel for the OP paying for the price of convenience.

 

[GreensvilleJay]

sadly welcome to what you get for $15 an hour, and it's only going to get WORSE. Don't need to read,write or rithmatic and you'll still get paid $15/hr.
I KNOW CDN trucks have stickers and yellow caps behind the filler door......
Saw a high priced, 'know it all' mechanic dump 5 gallons of oil into a dozer one day, then began another...... I came by , asked ,yeesh how much oil DOES that beast take ? He then noticed the black RIVER running past him........he'd forgotten to reinstall the pan plug..........that was 21 years ago...

 

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[mikester]

sadly welcome to what you get for $15 an hour, and it's only going to get WORSE. Don't need to read,write or rithmatic and you'll still get paid $15/hr.

Human nature is funny. When you have something you are trying to sell it's worth $$$$$. If you are buying then its worth nothing and you are unwilling to pay.

 

[chim]

A couple of our larger company pickups are diesel. One of the guys filled up at a station about two miles from the shop, and somehow noticed something wasn't quite right (smell) before leaving the station. He was correct - the delivery truck filled the underground DIESEL tank with GASOLINE. Fortunately he didn't drive the truck, but I'm sure there were others not so lucky.

 

[lugbolt]

yup went through it in 2018 with the old shop truck.

$22,000 later it was running correctly. Sold it. Had over $40 grand worth of repairs done on it in the time we owned it (09 through 2018). 06 duramax 3500 reg cab 2x4 drw

will never own another gm vehicle again-ever.

gas in the diesel tank wasn't the truck's fault but it was the other 20 grand worth of repairs prior to that. Injectors, pumps, harnesses, transmission (bulletproof allison), crossmember, turbo, multiple blend door motors and controllers, brake controller, way more brake pads and rotors than should have been, rear wheel bearings, paint coming off (though we didn't fix that), buttons wearing out, gosh it was pretty much everything on the truck that was falling apart. It was purchased at 32,000 miles and sold with 118,000. Company could deduct the costs on taxes I guess, only reason I can think of that they kept fixing it.

Busy local gas station had some issue with the boneheads that delivered fuel, they put gas in the diesel tank underground. Multiple thousands of gallons were sold, and of course we all know what it costs to fix a diesel that's had gas run through it. Common rail engines are extremely expensive in that aspect. They got the school buses for the local school district. All 12 of them got filled with gas. Buses didn't run for about a week because of it. I did some tractor repairs at work for the same exact gas station's issues. Mowers. Pickup trucks. Dump trucks. It was a big problem!

I know that everyone makes a mistake but let's do a better job of paying attention to what we're doing so maybe we can avoid a few.