Last night I decided to fill my truck up. Here in Fl, we have a possible tropical storm coming so I wanted to make sure I at least had a full tank fo gas (to last me like 4 days...) I went to a local sation, swipe my card, and grab the 93 handle. I put 16 gallons of "fuel" in my truck and drive off.
I was sitting at the traffic light on my way home and notice the truck idling very rough. I baby the truck back home and pull into my driveway. I pop the hood and do my "oh shit what just happend" inspection and don't really notice anything out of the ordinary other than the rough idle. I begin to walk around the side of the truck to look underneath for any leaks when I get a huge wiff of diesel :shrug:... I was possitive I used the right handle (which I did because my reciept says "Product sold = Prem").
So I take my beater and drive back to the gas station to try to sort things out. I briefly explain what happend and the "kid" looks at me like whats the big deal and why are you bothering me. I then give him a quick shake down as to how detrimental diesel is to the fuel system of an unleaded vehicle. As soon as he realizes this isn't a problem that will just go away he gives me a phone number to call. It's about 8pm and he says the person will be there tomorrow to answer any "questions."
I call my buddy (knowfreed0m) who always seems to bail me out of crap. He makes a few phone calls and his g/f's dad says he will take care of me. So I call him today when I get home from class and he has a tow truck ready to come pick up my truck. So I get the truck to his shop and and before I leave he's already working on it (despite the fact that he was swamped with other work.)
On my way home from the shop I stop by the gas station to talk to some one and see a guy all dressed up in a button down shirt and another guy ina jump suit staring at the fuel tank fillers. I walk over and start talking to them. At first the guy pretends like he has no idea what I was talking about, but when I start asking for names and phone numbers he begins to cooperate. He would not give me a card but he did take down my information and said he would call me within an hour.
I go home and try to relax and wait for the phone call but nothing. So I do some interweb browsing and get the phone number to the florida department of agriculture. I give them a ring-a-ding and explain everything and the guy said he would send an inspector to the gas station. So I figured in about 2 or 3 weeks I would recieve a phone call from the inspector. Boy was I mislead, within 20 minutes the phone rings and the inspector says he spoke with the station manager and they confirmed that there was a "contamination." So I talk to the station manager and he tells me to take the truck to a shop and save all the reciepts because when its all done "I will take care of you."
So even though this has been a major inconvenience at a time when I am already busy with all sorts of sh*t, it turns out (so far) everything is going as good as possible.
UPDATE For those interested, see last post..
I was sitting at the traffic light on my way home and notice the truck idling very rough. I baby the truck back home and pull into my driveway. I pop the hood and do my "oh shit what just happend" inspection and don't really notice anything out of the ordinary other than the rough idle. I begin to walk around the side of the truck to look underneath for any leaks when I get a huge wiff of diesel :shrug:... I was possitive I used the right handle (which I did because my reciept says "Product sold = Prem").
So I take my beater and drive back to the gas station to try to sort things out. I briefly explain what happend and the "kid" looks at me like whats the big deal and why are you bothering me. I then give him a quick shake down as to how detrimental diesel is to the fuel system of an unleaded vehicle. As soon as he realizes this isn't a problem that will just go away he gives me a phone number to call. It's about 8pm and he says the person will be there tomorrow to answer any "questions."
I call my buddy (knowfreed0m) who always seems to bail me out of crap. He makes a few phone calls and his g/f's dad says he will take care of me. So I call him today when I get home from class and he has a tow truck ready to come pick up my truck. So I get the truck to his shop and and before I leave he's already working on it (despite the fact that he was swamped with other work.)
On my way home from the shop I stop by the gas station to talk to some one and see a guy all dressed up in a button down shirt and another guy ina jump suit staring at the fuel tank fillers. I walk over and start talking to them. At first the guy pretends like he has no idea what I was talking about, but when I start asking for names and phone numbers he begins to cooperate. He would not give me a card but he did take down my information and said he would call me within an hour.
I go home and try to relax and wait for the phone call but nothing. So I do some interweb browsing and get the phone number to the florida department of agriculture. I give them a ring-a-ding and explain everything and the guy said he would send an inspector to the gas station. So I figured in about 2 or 3 weeks I would recieve a phone call from the inspector. Boy was I mislead, within 20 minutes the phone rings and the inspector says he spoke with the station manager and they confirmed that there was a "contamination." So I talk to the station manager and he tells me to take the truck to a shop and save all the reciepts because when its all done "I will take care of you."
So even though this has been a major inconvenience at a time when I am already busy with all sorts of sh*t, it turns out (so far) everything is going as good as possible.
UPDATE For those interested, see last post..
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