Everybody please note that this is rrwfotr's first ever posting. However, revenge attacks is an interesting topic for a thread. A rich Singapore Chinese girl I once worked with told me she had taken revenge on her English boyfriend by scratching his car with a nail. "What sort of car was it," I asked. "An Austin," she replied. "An Austin?" I queried. "Yes, an Austin Martin," she snapped back.
HJ
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It's not an easy or SAFE DIY task - all the fumes, even when messing about with an empty tank - let alone making sure you've enough suitable containers to store the contaminated fuel in.
Then you'll also need to dispose of it.
Best let the local garage do it.
& don't try & start it any more, else you'll pump more water where it shouldn't be going!!
VB
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Did it start at all? I would have expected that at least a few seconds of running were possible with the fuel in the fuel rail.
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Rrwfotr: What car is it and how old? Is it normally a reliable starter; are you definitely sure its got water in it?
I put petrol in my diesel car (clever eh!?). I had it towed to a local small independant garage; and it cost me £70 to have the fuel tank removed and drained, fuel lines flushed out, and new fuel filter fitted. The £70 bill included £12 of new fuel put into the tank.
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The car was a petrol, its a new car. Also the car was a lease car so im dreading what the lease people will say now!!! Am I looking at hundreads to repair??
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Even if water had been put into the fuel tank, the car would most likely have started initially because of the amount of petrol still remaining in the fuel line.
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Also the car was a lease car so im dreading what the lease people will say now!!!
Easiest solution is to tell a white lie. Happened overnight by some pranksters in the street, or something along those lines.
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>>Easiest solution is to tell a white lie.
And what about that lie, never mind any other, is white ?
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Some twenty years ago water contiminated the petrol tank of my first car, a 1979 Peugeot 505. It started but spluttered and ran roughly. I syphoned out what I could then drove it until it ran out of petrol and it was sweet as a nut after that.
Having said that, it was an old, simple carburetor model, but still it cost me nothing to repair. Hope this raises your spirits.
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Check she hasn?t shoved a potato or something in your exhaust pipe. Might be something that simple.
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Or carved some (wholly untrue in my case) vicious lies onto the back of the car.
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Or carved some (wholly untrue in my case) vicious lies onto the back of the car.
Sounds like there's a story, there Adam. Are you going to tell us?
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Adam, thought it was the bonnet you had to get resprayed? :)
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Why do people associate with people like that? I have never understood why a reasonable man would get intimate with a psychopath.
Of course it's different with women, as any man can see. They just can't tell the difference between toerags and decent chaps. Just as well some of us may think.
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rrwfotr
Interested to know what make of new, leased car you have which either does not have a locking fuel cap, or whose keys were still accessible to the woman concerned in the unfortunate circumstances described?
Jack
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Interested to know what make of new, leased car you have which either does not have a locking fuel cap, or whose keys were still accessible to the woman concerned in the unfortunate circumstances described?
A car owned by someone who doesn't have a wine cellar? :)
see www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002...l
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At HJ's revenge thread suggestion - a colleague here at work started an affair with the receptionist (not original I know) when her husband found out he came to the car park here and scratched and painted various words (HJ'S SNIP SNIP would work overtime if I mentioned them) all over HER car. He didn't dare touch HIS car as he's a big lad known not to suffer fools gladly. - they're married now btw......
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Could have been worse; the can could have been full of full-fat coke. That'd cause a problem or two.
V
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the most effective method I have heard of is cous-cous in the tank.
ouch.
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Is that the lemur-like marsupial, natural habiat Indonesia? Or are you referring to a particularly gruel type of revenge?
HJ
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LOL I just had to google that - Cuscus is the marsupial - maybe I've been eating meat instead of what I thought was pasta....
It's that fine grained pasta-type stuff that swells up and absorbs water.... so in a fuel tank it pretty much wrecked everything as it absorbed all the fuel very easily and turned in to a thick mush.
as an aside - cous cous is recommended as a healthy carbohydrate, but not for car engines!
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"Why do people associate with people like that? I have never understood why a reasonable man would get intimate with a psychopath."
The alternative, presumably, is to enter a monastery and I suspect they would not allow one a car at all!
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However, revenge attacks is an interesting topic for a thread
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how about this bmw?
www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/07/bmw_auction/
full set of pictures is available to view at some "not safe for work" website.
p.s. what do the letters in "rrwfotr" stand for?
BR Members should be warned that although the above page is decent, one ebay auction that it links to could offend some.
Rather than delete the link D has put up, I've made it non clickable. If you want to view it please copy and paste it into your browser.
IIRC the same full set of pictures D refers to are also available on a clean site as well. If anyone can find that site by all means forward the link to me and I'll check it out before posting it.
Thanks - Hugo
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Hi rrwfotr stands for Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo.
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rrwfotr (or possibly rrwatr?)
To put some more meat on the bones of this story, it would be nice to have some idea of the make and model of car concerned. The story somehow seems incomplete without it!
Jack
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full set of pictures D refers to are also available on a clean site as well.
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i think this one is pretty clean
www.e46toronto.ca/forums/showthread.php?t=4069
{Link made non clickable - DD}
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Hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!
Was that intentional or not Dalglish?
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>> an AustinMartin
I vaguely remember the Austin Martin. About 1930 I believe. There was also an Austin Swallow.
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L\'escargot.
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Showing your age there I would say.
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Well it was my pride and joy. My new 55 reg 911 turbo, it only had 500 miles on the clock. Basically I was caught with my pants down with the next door neighbour's wife. The lease company took the car away and I reported it as a break down so lets see what happens, most prob end up with a 3k bill or something silly along those lines.
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Or are you a close relative of Baron Munchausen? Thanks for (partly) answering my questions, coupled with shame on you for only covering 500 miles before being diverted!
Jack
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Or are you a close relative of Baron Munchausen?
:) :)
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