Opinions welcome...
It's for mid-drive refueling. BM drivers are too important to stop like everyone else
that happens more often than you'd think in the states, when it takes 10min to pump the 1000gallons needed to keep your stupid 4mpg SUV thing
running
it doesnt help that most yanks have the attention span of goldfish!
You would think that all the spaceship technology inside the BMW would tell you that the fuel cap wasn't closed. Must have been a base model.
its a chav alert system! for chav's driving a car with a fuel cap on the left hand side, they can siphon fuel out of the BMW,
its the BMW owners fault really, he's missing his sign saying 'FREE FUEL HERE FOR CHAVS'
where did you get that photo of my mrs driving ?
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Originally posted by wanna be builder
that happens more often than you'd think in the states, when it takes 10min to pump the 1000gallons needed to keep your stupid 4mpg SUV thing running
it doesnt help that most yanks have the attention span of goldfish!
^ its nothing personal
plus is your on here then theres hope for you yet!
Plus, i gather that in the US you can lock the nozzle on and go and do something else whilst your 1000000 gallon SUV fuel tank is filling!! That
would explain why it's probably common to forget about them and leave them in!
Liam
I've seen a similar thing in my local Morrison's filling station - a van pulled away from the LPG pump, loud bang, hose trailing from the
van. The LPG hose has to be firmly locked into the filling connector.
At least he stopped and went into the office...
DJ
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Originally posted by Liam
Plus, i gather that in the US you can lock the nozzle on and go and do something else whilst your 1000000 gallon SUV fuel tank is filling!! That would explain why it's probably common to forget about them and leave them in!
Liam
it's not that we're anti-USA it's more that we're just tight!!!
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i gather that in the US you can lock the nozzle on and go and do something else
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Originally posted by wanna be builder
yup its the reason you cant use phones in filling stations now. fat yanks with cheap knickers on used to get into and out of their cars thus generating a charge which discharged when then next touched the nozzle, hence fire!
and the govenment in its wisdom banned using a phone in filling stations
iirc there has been more filling station fires due to the knicker issue than phones, but rather then tell people to stay at the pump rather than
jumping in and out of their cars all the time the phone gets the blame,
do really think that every body remember to turn off they're phone everytime they pump fuel?
http://www.snopes.com/autos/hazards/gasvapor.asp
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13339
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/4366337.stm
Science Abuse (with Richard Hammond) filled a caravan with petrol and about 20 mob phones and had them all going off at the same time.
Caravan only blew up when a fuse was lit
ATB
Simon
Mythbusters did a pretty through test too and couldn't get it to work
Cheers
Fred W B
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Originally posted by wanna be builder
do really think that every body remember to turn off they're phone everytime they pump fuel?
maybe they banned mobile phones to stop u being distracted? it may be why that bmw has a petrol hose hanging from it!
some of those rules are deffo important tho, when i was in kenya a few years ago we were filling up at a shell station and i kid u not there was a
tractor being filled up with its engine running, and a guy with a cigarette in his mouth filling up a car next to it!! also we were playing a game
of football on the forecourt. was a bit worring to say the least!
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Originally posted by trogdor
maybe they banned mobile phones to stop u being distracted? it may be why that bmw has a petrol hose hanging from it!
some of those rules are deffo important tho, when i was in kenya a few years ago we were filling up at a shell station and i kid u not there was a tractor being filled up with its engine running, and a guy with a cigarette in his mouth filling up a car next to it!!
unless they are made with steel jackets and thrown at the floor.....na its the same reason as hospitals give us....shortwave has the ability to
interfere with electronics...hense the digital mutha boards that help with calculatin yor final bill.....
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Originally posted by VanHaydn
.....na its the same reason as hospitals give us......