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Silicon found in unleaded petrol

Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 1:15 am
by abbey
Last night Morrisons stopped selling unleaded at 41 sites in the South East after up to 400,000 drivers suffered car trouble. :driving:


http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories ... _page.html



Suppliers are bracing themselves for an avalanche of claims.
Yea, like they can't afford it! :rolleyes:

Silicon found in unleaded petrol

Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 1:29 am
by spot
Who ends up being the "they" that pay any compensation will be an interesting detail. It's definitely not the stores which introduced the contaminant, it's not the tanker companies, it happened at least as far back as the Royal Vopak tank terminal. I hope whoever ordered the diesel additive put into the wrong storage tank gets interviewed by young Paxman, a bit of sarcastic humiliation's due.

The car repair cost is minimal compared to the cost of disruption to all the car drivers, and nobody's going to get reimbursed for that even if they do still have proof of purchase.

Silicon found in unleaded petrol

Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 1:38 am
by abbey
I expect it'll be us the motorist that ends up footing the bill, petrol prices will surely rise because of it. :mad:

Silicon found in unleaded petrol

Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 2:04 am
by spot
The amount's a drop in the ocean, Abbey. If every driver had to get a replacement part and have it fitted (and it's more likely to be one in ten) it would still only cost £100 million at the absolute most. That's petty cash for the fuel industry as a whole. Besides, I bet it's covered at Lloyd's.

Silicon found in unleaded petrol

Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 3:58 am
by Carl44
i wonder how many jordan gets to the gallon:rolleyes: :rolleyes:







:rolleyes:

Silicon found in unleaded petrol

Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 6:45 pm
by dubs
It's like a dead heat in a zeppelin race!.....:lips: :thinking:

Silicon found in unleaded petrol

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 1:02 am
by Nomad
Oxygen sensors do not cost $2000.00 or lbs or that backwards squiggly L or dubloonies or 2000 anything.

Silicon found in unleaded petrol

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 1:47 am
by Carl44
dubs;567350 wrote: It's like a dead heat in a zeppelin race!.....




:wah: :wah:





thanks dubs ... i thought no one got it silicon ..petrol jordan ... implants... miles per gallon ???? actually dubs your joke was better:o :o