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I have to share this with you all.

Was harassed tonight by somebody with a 09 Ford Focus - teach me not to walk out of the workshop in daylight!
It transpires that he had put Diesel into a petrol car ............ Not possible, right? ...... Wrong!

How?
He goes into the petrol station and finds out that the Diesel pump nozzle does not fit - i mean, that should be enough to make you think? and what sort of a dope hires a car and does not know what fuel it uses!

What does he do ... he scours around in the boot and finds the little funnel Ford have been thoughtful enough to supply you with in case you run out of petrol - purpose? ..... its to open the little flap as new Ford cars do not have a filler cap to loose and of course petrol cans do not have the correct shape end to open the little flap inside.

Anyway this dope used this "funnel" to put in £30.00 of Diesel into a petrol car, three quarters of a tank of the wrong fuel.

It was most amusing ..... NOT....... trying to get this stuff out, oh and the SMOKE on trying to start it.
Ford had put all these fail safes in place to prevent such an occurrence and somebody with persistence managed to get around it - shows you a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing in the wrong hands.

To go off at a slight tangent shall we say - if he has indeed damaged the Catalyst, this car will be polluting for three years as they are exempt from MOT's for the first three.

Designers put "idiot-proof" fail-safes in place only for mother nature to prove that she can come up with a better idiot. !

Hmmmm i can just picture it, a new breed of Super Idiot can you imagine the mayhem they could cause?

Imagine ??? We've already got one. He's called Gordon !

Here Here Stuart !