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| K9F Member Since: 12 Nov 2009 Location: Bournemouth Posts: 9610   
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I think it may just be the Winter months with the dark mornings and evenings. I travel to work in the dark and return the same. The journey is the same I do in the Summer which I enjoy but seems so much more tiresome and arduous in the Winter. There are more accidents in the Winter too and I don't think it's necessarily weather conditions but the drearyness and the fact people are half asleep.
May have to get a UV light for the dash perhaps?  If you go through life with your head in the sand....all people will see is an ar5e!!
Treat every day as if it is your last....one day you will be right!! |
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14th Dec 2013 11:44am |
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| dondiddy Member Since: 13 Nov 2012 Location: Hamilton Posts: 224  
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Yes, very good point! I did that very thing only last week and although In my defence the pump layout was rather confusing I probably should have taken more time to look at what I was doing! Didn`t put petrol in my diesel Landrover however but managed to put in Ultimate diesel at £1.55 a ltr when I only wanted regular diesel at £1.43! Did notice before I started fueling and thought it odd that the pump was saying £1.55 when the forecourt sign said £1.43! Only when I followed the hose back to the pump did I realise my mistake!
 By that time the nozzle was in the tank and the pump was running so I just filled up anyway!.
My wife (Bless her!) did misfuel my diesel Freelander a couple of years ago but realised her mistake after driving a couple of miles so topped up with diesel and drove home. As the tank had been very low on diesel and she had put £20 of petrol in then £20 of diesel I ended up draining the tank, changing the fuel filter and flushing the fuel lines. The Freelander was still running ok before the tank was drained but i wasn`t taking any chances. Still have the Freelander today and it has never had an issue since! I had to point out to a woman the other day in the filling station as she had a bodyshop courtesy car that it was a petrol car as she was attempting to put diesel in it. The nozzle wouldn`t fit the filler neckand the pump kept cutting off but she was very determined! What little fuel was coming out was just running down the side of the car! I was very nice about it as I remembered that I had very nearly been there,done that myself! |
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14th Dec 2013 12:04pm |
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| K9F Member Since: 12 Nov 2009 Location: Bournemouth Posts: 9610
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Blimey Don,
A bit 
 Fuel's expensive where you are... 7-10p cheaper down here. If you go through life with your head in the sand....all people will see is an ar5e!!
Treat every day as if it is your last....one day you will be right!! |
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14th Dec 2013 12:06pm |
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| dondiddy Member Since: 13 Nov 2012 Location: Hamilton Posts: 224
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Mal, I was around Stockport at the time! Had just done a deal and bought a 90 Wolf so it was the first filling station I came to on the drive home. Perhaps it was the excitement of a new Landrover! Theres`a small Gulf filling station near where I work in Glasgow that is always 10-15p a ltr dearer than any others round about but people still seem to use it!
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14th Dec 2013 12:29pm |
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| K9F Member Since: 12 Nov 2009 Location: Bournemouth Posts: 9610
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There's a petrol station I use on the Dorchester Road near Wimborne that even in the early hours of the morning is jammed with cars. That one is 4-5p cheaper than any other local garages. If one can do it, why not all?????
 If you go through life with your head in the sand....all people will see is an ar5e!!
Treat every day as if it is your last....one day you will be right!! |
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14th Dec 2013 12:50pm |
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| GUM97 Member Since: 05 Feb 2012 Location: Cheshire Posts: 3555 
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The local independent near me is at 132.1p/pl for Diesel at the moment! Not too bad! An engine to TDi for!
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14th Dec 2013 5:48pm |
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