Stories when filling up at "gasoline station"

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Was about to fill up once, and a guy by a trans-am yelled over at me and told me it was diesel pump and not to put it my car.

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The proper response if a hot-rodder/musclecar type tells you that it's diesel is "When you run 50 inches of manifold pressure on top of a 20:1 compression ratio, you need something stronger than premium".

For those of you other than Pete, the standard in aviation is to measure manifold pressure in inches of mercury absolute (normal atmospheric pressure at sea level will read about 30 inches). The 12 pounds boost on a stock TDI will bring you up to roughly 50 inches. Needless to say, for gassers a 20:1 ratio is impossible due to pre-ignition.

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I'm glad I'm not the only one who will put on gloves to fuel up!

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I'm pumping fuel into my car with the "green colored hose", as she points out to me.

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Watch out if you come to the UK. The pumps and hoses are all the same colour, only the nozzle bit is different and guess what - the gas nozzles are green and the diesel nozzles are black. They are all the same size too.

Still diesel cars are much more common so we don't get the same reaction as you do.

More common is putting gas in a diesel by mistake. No one tells you because most makes of car come in diesel or gas.

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I was driving through Oklahoma and Arizona in my TDI, going for maximum fuel economy by driving 50 mph. At the end of the day, I pulled over for fuel and a couple comes over to me and says, "We passed you several times today, but you still managed to stay ahead of us! How can that be?"

"Yeah, because I didn't have to stop for fuel like you did. "

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Was about to fill up once, and a guy by a trans-am yelled over at me and told me it was diesel pump and not to put it my car.

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The proper response if a hot-rodder/musclecar type tells you that it's diesel is "When you run 50 inches of manifold pressure on top of a 20:1 compression ratio, you need something stronger than premium".

For those of you other than Pete, the standard in aviation is to measure manifold pressure in inches of mercury absolute (normal atmospheric pressure at sea level will read about 30 inches). The 12 pounds boost on a stock TDI will bring you up to roughly 50 inches. Needless to say, for gassers a 20:1 ratio is impossible due to pre-ignition.

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ROTFLMAO!! This is one of the best ones I've read. LOLOLOLOL! I'll remember this one!

A friend of mine who grew up around diesels told me to say "Somebody told me my car was burning 'oil', so I wanted to find out if it's true."


I loved reading this thread when it was started a year ago. It quickly became one of my favorites and I checked it daily. Lots of good laughs.

Keep those "gas" station fillup stories coming! It's a topic every TDI owner can relate to!


~ n1das

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These stories are great! Maybe we should get a new catagory.

Mine involves filling up this past winter. Temp about 10F, horizontal snow, Eskimos and Polar Bears headed south to warmer weather. I pull to the pump, get out and insert the card, nothin', pump won't clear. Walk into the station (looking like the blizzard beast) and you guessed it: " Sir, that's a diesel pump." .... "Uh-huh, and that's a diesel car sitting next to it."

My wife gets most of the comments tho' "Hey lady, do you know that's a diesel pump?". But she's polite and sweetly replies "Yes I do, thank you."

At least people are trying to be helpful.

OBTW I get vinyl gloves in a little plastic "can" they dispense like disposable wipes and last longer than latex.

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Watch out if you come to the UK. The pumps and hoses are all the same colour, only the nozzle bit is different


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My powers of obsevation are waning. Apart from my local filling station most UK pumps do have coloured hoses - green for unleaded, red for LRP and black for diesel.

I only go to one station as the range I get means I can go most places without filling up anywhere else.

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On the 1 year anniversary of the start of this thread I will post my wifes story when she was filling up at a station.

A fuel station attendant was refusing to sell diesel fuel to my her. He did not want to participate in messing up our engine. He had no idea VW sells diesel engines.

My wife had to beg, plead and make a scene telling him that the D in TDI stands for Diesel. (She didn't know the D doesn't stand for Diesel but it worked.)

Finally after much reluctance and lots of stares from other cutomers he turned on the pump.

I told her that if it happens again to show the Diesel Fuel Only sticker on the inside of the fuel door.

Here is a previous tread on this subject also.

I like LagoonBlueTDI's response to "Hey! Are you REALLY sure you want to put DIESEL in that thing?".

"No problem", I replied. "These new engines will run on anything". The look on the poor guys face was priceless. Maybe he was wondering where he could get a car with one of those "new" engines..."

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Anyone with similar stories? Share'm all here!

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Went to the car wash Monday and the girl who was drying my car off goes "You know your car is knocking a lot?" <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/rolleyes.gif" />

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"Yeah, and I LIKE it that way!"

(ding)

"muahaha! More power! More power!"

(ding)

"Come back to my place, and I'll show you how to knock!"

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If all goes well it'll be at least 4 monthes before I fill up at a fuel station again.....My last 2 fill-ups were in my driveway with a hose from my barrel of b-100 to my golf swish swish swish as I pump the handle back and forth...that's all I hear.....

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One more story: My wife pulled up to the diesel pumps at the local Cenex and while filling-up, the fellow in the big rig next to her offered to pay her tab if she would pay his. She politely declined.

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Here's a funny thing... I've been driving diesels for 11 years (since I was 16). I've never had a gasser. I drive 30-40k miles per year. I have NEVER had anyone say anything about filling up with diesel. Go figure! I think it had something to do with this area. There are lots of diesel cars in the Baltimore/Washington area. It seems that there are almost as many TDIs as there are gas VWs... I know it's not true, but there are a whole lot of them. My father is a mechanic in Maryland and works only on diesel Mercedes. He's got more work than he can handle and his customers have an average of 250k miles on their cars!

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Same here as McBrew. After 63k miles, no one's ever said a word... I kinda feel neglected.

-Mel

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Few months ago, I pulled into a station with a Dodge dually breathing down my back, that only had one pump carrying diesel (as well as three grades of gasoline). This pump was also the first pump that I came to as I entered the station.

I stopped, got out, opend the hatch, put on my gloves and was about to slide my credit card into the pay-at-the-pump slot when the "gentleman" in the dually (cummins power) who stopped a mere 4 ft behind me, revs his engine.

I looked at him, smiled and preceeded to slide my card in and remove the diesel nozzel.

-rev- again from Mr. Cummins

I open the fuel door, put the nozzel in and begin pumping DIESEL!

-rev- again from Mr. Cummins

Since I knew I had time (light had come on at 695 miles ), I walked over to this fella and before I even got to him he rolled down his window and yelled "You know that's the ONLY pump with DIESEL!"

I said, "Yes, and did you know that my car was a diesel?"

With that he revs the engine again, slams it in reverse, spins backwards, slams it into gear and spins out of the station.

It's really too bad that he was such an impatient, close-minded a$$hole. Generally, I look forward to encounters with other diesel owners because they typically are interesting to talk to.

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NussWag, out of the 100+ replies to this thread over the past year, I think yours is the first to actually make me laugh out loud, thats great. He got mad and backed up and peeled out due to his embarassment for being such a jackass is my guess. The whole time he was so annoyed with you he was wrong, and you politely threw it in his face. AWESOME work

I've only had one experience of the kind, and ironically it was just days after I replied to this thread months ago, how nobody had ever approached me. I began filling the tdi with diesel and the woman came running(literally) out. This was very nice of her but comical. She said HEY you cant put that in your car? I replied with a dumb look in my face - 'oh really, how come?' She says, thats diesel fuel, you have to have a 'special' engine for that! I blankly looked and said, oh I thought you had to have a special engine to run gasoline, mine says diesel fuel only, hmm. She stared at me in disbelief that anyone could be so dumb, until she walked over and saw the diesel fuel only sign and shook her head. LOL.

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I've been working at different gas stations for 5 years as part time job.

I've got a lot of stories to tell, but will concentrate on the "diesel ones".

Around 19:30 yesterday (22nd), a woman parks her TDI besides the diesel pump and ask me to fill it up.

So I put the nozzle in and do what she asked.

It stops at only 10$, and I had a little time so I started venting.

Around 15$ she starts yelling to stop and it's no good to fill up a diesel all the way up and blah blah blah.

I toll her that applies mainly to gasser because of how gasoline expand more than diesel for every increase in temperature.

I also told her that people had filled up TDI all the way up and parked them under the sun and nothing happened.

By the way it was only 15C or 59F, so not too hot to fill it up all the way.

After every half sentence she was cutting me off saying that is not what she was told.

I gave her the address of the club here and my screen name, maybe we'll see her soon.

She was driving an A4 Jetta Blue on beige leather, 5 spd; very good looking car.

It's just too bad that some people are misinformed from the start, it takes the fun out.

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I know there are at least a couple of guys telling a story in Jacksonville, FLA about the time they were filling up at a station and they witnessed a guy drive over his own head with his own Karmann Ghia. And then how the guy got up of the ground, went into the washroom to clean the asphalt and tire tread from his face, got back under the car to get it started and drove away.

All I can say is: Damn does saltwater burn when it's in contact with freshly abraded skin.

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No one's ever said anything to me either, Mel. Guess we look like we know what we're doin' LOL (or maybe it's the latex gloves I snap on loudly before filling up! I think guys are inherently scared of latex gloves for some reason..... )

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I've never had anyone at the station ask me about my TDI...one guy asked me if I liked my Volkswagen, but just in reference to the overall car. I said, "Yes." He said, "Good...good..." with a pleased tone in his voice...a bit strange

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The lady at the Hess station said, "Hon, the car pump is the OTHER one". I told her my NB can take the truck nozzle, and she looked surprised. At least me pulling up to the diesel pumps didn't faze her.

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No one's ever said anything to me either, Mel. Guess we look like we know what we're doin' LOL (or maybe it's the latex gloves I snap on loudly before filling up! I think guys are inherently scared of latex gloves for some reason.....

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Right you are, Mary!... well, at least us "veteran" guys.

-Mel

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This past weekend I was at a gas station in Ludlow, MA and it was one of those annoying Pay First pumps. I go inside and said $20 on number 5. He looks over at my car and says "Number 5 is diesel".

I said "I know"

He says "That doesn't look like a diesel".

I said "It's a turbo diesel and gets 40 mpg" (i have an automatic).

He seemed impressed.

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I feel ripped off. No one say anything around here. Of course, everyone around here drives to Starbucks in their Ram Cummins or Powerstroke...

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Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Let's see now, this thread has gone on for over a year providing some light entertainment for folks. Now, you need to go ruin things by bringing your opinion of things into this thread. Glad to know you're speaking for all Europeans. Yeah, you should have started a new thread...

Let's try to stay on topic, ok?

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I guess BORATDI00 doesn't understand that the humor isn't derived from the price of fuel.

As for your political comments, shut up! This forum is not the place for political commentary unless it relates to policies that affect the use of diesel fuel in motor vehicles.

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Well, in the USA GAS is cheap

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I think BORATDI100 is simply jealous

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Let's see... BORATDI100... gotta make a note of that one for the next time he comes around here seeking help concerning MAF sensors and such.

USA steals gas from Iraq, eh? Why don't you take your little Bora and stick it up your a$$, you clueless jerk!

After all, it was your president that stood in solidarity with my president and England's prime minister... oh, why bother.

Anyways... still waiting for my first encounter with a fuel station attendent trying to save me from ruining my car.

-Mel

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Americans...

Did you stop and think?

This funny scenes (I am reading them from Spain) are because there in the USA fuel is cheap. I mean, GAS vs. DIESEL, there is not much diference.

Well, in the USA GAS is cheap.

Why? You guys have plenty of it. And you steal it from Iraq. And as I heard today in the news, you (Americans) are already acusing IRAN of having more weapons...(AL QAEDA MOVIE: PART II)

We (Europeans), have around 40% of the cars DIESEL.

I do not want to start another thread, but make you think about it. Every funny thing has it's turnabout.

I've been in the USA and HECK!! GAS is cheeeap!!!

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Bora,
You come off as accusing the Americans on Fred's TDI forums (these forums) of directly stealing oil from Iraq and Iran. Might I remind that while you may be correct about the actions of the U.S. government, you are probably way off base for most of the American readers of these forums. Indeed, many of us, but not necessarily all of us, own TDIs because we would like to see our country wean itself from foreign oil. If you want to go oil-consuming-and-stealing-American bashing, please do so on a non-fuel-efficient forum. Your accusations on this board only serve to piss off potential supporters of your ideas.

David

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Let's see... BORATDI100... gotta make a note of that one for the next time he comes around here seeking help concerning MAF sensors and such.
-Mel

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Mel, Are you psychic or what?!!!

http://forums.tdiclub.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB17&Number=524563&Forum=All_Forums&Words=15331&Match=Username&Searchpage=0&Limit=25&Old=allposts&Main=523965&Search=true#Post524563
Hi guys...
I recently started having problems in my 2002 Bora TDI.
As I read in the Forums, I thought it was the MAF sensor...
I do 200 kilometers everydays, and suddenly I found out that the car would not have enough power... I had to go in a plain highway in 4th, at 80km/h!!!

I went to my dealer and explained the problem. They said that they needed the car for one day and a half (=two days).
For testing and repairing purposes (did I tell ya I am in Spain? )