Husband buys Tesla - wife goes to fill it up

[Stuart Wright]

 

[Hixs]

Wow, just wow.

 

[MrFraggle]

Wrong thread.

 

[mjn]

Re-Post

 

[Hixs]

I'd laugh too, but I would actually go tell her she's being a dunce after 5-10 seconds. Letting that go on for 5 odd minutes would be wasting 5 minutes of my life.

 

[deantown]

Been around a long time that one.

 

[nheather]

I’ve seen a few videos like this recently. Why is the same clip in the video twice back to back. I.E. the clip finishes half way through the video and then repeats.

Cheers,

Nigel

 

[Matt_C]

I'd laugh too, but I would actually go tell her she's being a dunce after 5-10 seconds. Letting that go on for 5 odd minutes would be wasting 5 minutes of my life.

It was under under half that (2:20)

 

[captainarchive]

I used to work at a petrol station while at college. One of our customers bought a new Jag, he never let his wife drive. One day, however, his wife came over driving on her own, filled the Jag and walked in to pay.
Me 'I didn't know your Jag ran on diesel'
Her 'It doesnt'

She'd filled her husband's V12 6 litre Jag with the black stuff.

 

[imightbewrong]

I used to work at a petrol station while at college. One of our customers bought a new Jag, he never let his wife drive. One day, however, his wife came over driving on her own, filled the Jag and walked in to pay.
Me 'I didn't know your Jag ran on diesel'
Her 'It doesnt'

She'd filled her husband's V12 6 litre Jag with the black stuff.

Well at least thanks to your comment it was discovered without running the engine

 

[hyperfish]

I used to work at a petrol station while at college. One of our customers bought a new Jag, he never let his wife drive. One day, however, his wife came over driving on her own, filled the Jag and walked in to pay.
Me 'I didn't know your Jag ran on diesel'
Her 'It doesnt'

She'd filled her husband's V12 6 litre Jag with the black stuff.

I thought diesel nozzles were wider than petrol to prevent this?

 

[nvingo]

I thought diesel nozzles were wider than petrol to prevent this?

At the time, diesel and petrol nozzles for cars were the same size as the cars' fillers were standard.
It was only the switch from leaded 4-star to unleaded petrol, the fillers were made smaller and that was to stop 4-star being put in.
Commercial vehicle diesel nozzles may be larger still (you've got to get more fuel in them),

 

[Liquid101]

I used to work at a petrol station while at college. One of our customers bought a new Jag, he never let his wife drive. One day, however, his wife came over driving on her own, filled the Jag and walked in to pay.
Me 'I didn't know your Jag ran on diesel'
Her 'It doesnt'

She'd filled her husband's V12 6 litre Jag with the black stuff.

I knew this guy that borrowed his dads camper van to take his girlfriend away for the weekend.

On the way home he decided to fill the tank up. After pulling out of the garage he noticed the needle handed even moved.

Turns out he’d pumped the petrol directly into the water tank that feeds the shower and sink.

Thankfully my father saw the funny side, but he likes to remind me of my stupidity from time to time

 

[Ste7en]

At least she saw the funny side of it

 

[Autopilot]

Obviously fake. Everyone else sees that right? I’m I missing something?

 

[gibbsy]

My first car was a Hillman Imp and it was always fun to go into a petrol station in the late 1960s as most of them where still manned and ask the attendant to put a couple of gallons in. They'd walk around the car looking for the filler to find there wasn't one. To fill the car up you had to pop the 'bonnet' at the front as the filler cap was in there, engine in the rear (car handled like a Ferrari). Cutting edge design.

 

[Dony]

My first car was a Hillman Imp and it was always fun to go into a petrol station in the late 1960s as most of them where still manned and ask the attendant to put a couple of gallons in. They'd walk around the car looking for the filler to find there wasn't one. To fill the car up you had to pop the 'bonnet' at the front as the filler cap was in there, engine in the rear (car handled like a Ferrari). Cutting edge design.

I bought a 1960 Beetle once from a BMW dealership (same fuel setup as your hillman). Took it for a test drive and the timing was all out. Not a major issue, but the dealership insisted I leave it with their engineers to correct it before I could pick up the car.
I went back a few days later to collect, and the salesman apologised that they weren’t able to fix the issue as the engineers didn’t know where to hook up the diagnostics computer!

 

[nheather]

On one of my business trips to the US, I once spent a really embarrassing time at the gas station on the way back to the airport trying to find the release for the filler hatch. Looked in all the usual places, not there. Looked at some unusual places, not there. And then repeated several times because I must have overlooked it right. Nope, eventually found it in the centre console obscurred by the hand brake.

Also spent an embarrasing time in the company car park at night in the dead of winter trying to find the electronic hand brake release on a Mercedes B Class. Turns out it is on the underside of the dashboard and sat in the driver's seat you can't see it - need to know it is there. I only found it when I got out of the car and looked into the footwell using the torch on my mobile phone.

I got pretty stressed and pissed off on both occasions.

Cheers,

Nigel

And of course, as is quite common, Avis had removed the manual from the car in both cases. So even when I did concede to the unmanly thing of RTFM I couldn't.

 

[Deleted member 27989]

On one of my business trips to the US, I once spent a really embarrassing time at the gas station on the way back to the airport trying to find the release for the filler hatch. Looked in all the usual places, not there. Looked at some unusual places, not there. And then repeated several times because I must have overlooked it right. Nope, eventually found it in the centre console obscurred by the hand brake.

Also spent an embarrasing time in the company car park at night in the dead of winter trying to find the electronic hand brake release on a Mercedes B Class. Turns out it is on the underside of the dashboard and sat in the driver's seat you can't see it - need to know it is there. I only found it when I got out of the car and looked into the footwell using the torch on my mobile phone.

I got pretty stressed and pissed off on both occasions.

Cheers,

Nigel

And of course, as is quite common, Avis had removed the manual from the car in both cases. So even when I did concede to the unmanly thing of RTFM I couldn't.

A tip for next time with an electronic handbrake, just start driving and it will release That is the reason Mercedes has put it out of the way as it is an exception that you should operate it manually...

 

[nheather]

A tip for next time with an electronic handbrake, just start driving and it will release That is the reason Mercedes has put it out of the way as it is an exception that you should operate it manually...

Yes, had a Golf at the time so familiar with them, so that was the first thing I tried. It would not release. Slightly burnt the clutch trying.

Think there are two types of electronic hand brake.

The hand brake in my Golf was fully automatic so would automatically come on when I stopped in traffic and would automatically come off when I drove away - so could also do hill starts. My son has a more basic Seat Leon - assumed that would be the same but although it is operated by a switch it behaves as if it were manual.

Cheers,

Nigel

 

[Deleted member 27989]

Yes, had a Golf at the time so familiar with them, so that was the first thing I tried. It would not release. Slightly burnt the clutch trying.

Cheers,

Nigel

Wow good handbrake then

 

[Deleted member 27989]

Yes, had a Golf at the time so familiar with them, so that was the first thing I tried. It would not release. Slightly burnt the clutch trying.

Think there are two types of electronic hand brake.

The hand brake in my Golf was fully automatic so would automatically come on when I stopped in traffic and would automatically come off when I drove away - so could also do hill starts. My son has a more basic Seat Leon - assumed that would be the same but although it is operated by a switch it behaves as if it were manual.

Cheers,

Nigel

I thought we were talking Mercedes

The on-the-move brake function is called hold with Mercedes. And unlike VAG where it works indeed like that, you have to press the brake pedal a second time when you've already come to a halt. Then continuing the drive is a simple press on the accelerator.

 

[Deleted member 498601]

Yes, had a Golf at the time so familiar with them, so that was the first thing I tried. It would not release. Slightly burnt the clutch trying.

Think there are two types of electronic hand brake.

The hand brake in my Golf was fully automatic so would automatically come on when I stopped in traffic and would automatically come off when I drove away - so could also do hill starts. My son has a more basic Seat Leon - assumed that would be the same but although it is operated by a switch it behaves as if it were manual.

Cheers,

Nigel

I have similar issues in my A3, which along with the 2 cars you've mentioned and the Skoda Octavia is essentially the same car, badged differently (so I've been told). My wife and I both have the issue you describe in the Audi and I have a theory as to why;
I believe from experimenting that the handbrake needs to see things with the clutch and accelerator happen in a certain way - If I give it some gas (approx 200-500 rpm) then raise the clutch to find biting point (as new drivers tend to do), when the car starts pulling a bit, then the handbrake disengages automatically.
I think the problem arises when (as experienced drivers tend to do), you just place both pedals at biting point almost simultaneously. The car doesn't see the accelerator then clutch, so it gets confused, 'thinks' you're about to stall, so leaves the handbrake on.
If I make the deliberate 2 seperate actions with my pedals, I don't have an issue. If I hop in and just go to pull away without thinking about it, I sometimes find that the handbrake remains on, forcing me to stop, press the brake and manually disengage it by pressing the button down. Like a pauper.

 

[hyperfish]

Took me a while to release the handbrake on a US rental. It was another small pedal out of view. Press it hard to release.

 

[nheather]

I thought we were talking Mercedes

The on-the-move brake function is called hold with Mercedes. And unlike VAG where it works indeed like that, you have to press the brake pedal a second time when you've already come to a halt. Then continuing the drive is a simple press on the accelerator.

It was several years ago - maybe as much as 6 years. This one was definitely on/off, there was no auto-hold fucntion. Or maybe it did have auto-hold and because it didn't work like the one on my Golf I simply was aware how to activate it.

But whatever, when I picked up the car the hand brake was on and the only way I could turn it off was to operate the switch (once I had found it). No attempt of trying to drive forward would turn it off autmatically - I tried lots - and getting pretty irritated which is likely why a burned the clutch a little.

The scenario is this was about 8pm at night, freezing cold, pitch black. In the Avis compoud on my employer's site. Avis close shop at 5pm so if you have any problems with the car you are on your own. The corporate Avis telephone just goes through to their portacabin which is closed. If you call main Avis you eventually get to speak to someone that isn't even aware that the office exists and cannot do anything. The only thing you can do is to call a taxi. So finding a problem with the hire car was always a real PITA.

Cheers,

Nigel