Contamination Or Not ??

[grego]

Is it true that VW and Audi wont be affected?

[panther]

why? what makes them different?

[maxwell silver]

Terrorists anyone ?

[grego]

Something about an oxygen analyser.

[tadah]

Yes maxwell that is another possibilty.

[maxwell silver]

Originally Posted by maxwell silver

Terrorists anyone ?

What i'm trying to say is we had alerts about terrorists trying to sabotage our water,so why not our petrol,okay nobodies getting killed (yet),but on a big enough scale it would bring the country to its knees.We don't want planes dropping out of the skies because the fuels contaminated like cars have been coming to a halt.And where has this oil/petrol been coming from...
another government cover up,i'm telling you this has wider implications....hang on i think thats MI5 at the door......

[entwisi]

1st of all, 'one not washed out' tanker wouldn't cause SO much problems

Secondly, all petrol cars are/would be affected[1]

terrorism - Thanks to everyone for giving them ideas

You need reciepts for any claim, eBay Anyone? afetr all , if you don't havea receipt but someone else does.................


<ian pats his LPG instalation with thanks>

[Gayle]

Disagree - could easily cause so much trouble.

One oil tanker probably carries enough petrol to fuel 30,000 to 50,000 car petrol tanks at least.

All cars who filled up with that tanker load could be affected but not happened yet. It's not an immediate thing, could be hours or weeks before the car gives up the ghost. Also, not all drivers fill up with a full tank, some people might have a full tank (filled up at Total) then fill up again when only half used at (Tesco) then fill up again when only half used (at Total again) thereby diluting the problem so perhaps not causing the car to conk out.

Terrorism - don't think it's possible to give them any more ideas than they already have.

[maxwell silver]

Originally Posted by Gayle

Disagree - could easily cause so much trouble.

One oil tanker probably carries enough petrol to fuel 30,000 to 50,000 car petrol tanks at least.



Terrorism - don't think it's possible to give them any more ideas than they already have.

I agree entirely,these b******s blew up the twin towers for Gods sake,they're not charlie in 'nam with bamboo traps .Sorry i'd try &be a bit more literate but i'm sure you all understand.My apologies,but i think ther'es something more sinister going on here

[entwisi]

gayle

firstly, if it was an 'unwashed' tanker, it would take only one full tank of petrol to wash it out. secondly the number of places reporting issues, it would be nigh on impossible for this 'one mythical tanker' to deliver to all sites affected. The sites have been delivered to from many refining sites across the country

the issue affects the O2 sensor in exhausts. (Old non Cat cars aren't affected at all as they don't have an O2 sensor), if you top up a half full car with 'contaminated' stuff its watered down to 50% original strength so it may not be an issue at all as we don't know what % is req to do teh damage.

Remember that all Petrol contains all these additives anyway, its only an imbalance that seems to be causing a problem

[K.S.H]

If there talking about importing a tanker full they probably mean a sea going tanker not a little road tank

[Gayle]

Yes, that's what I mean - a sea tanker - perhaps I didn't explain properly.

[maxwell silver]

Originally Posted by K.S.H

If there talking about importing a tanker full they probably mean a sea going tanker not a little road tank

And the rest they don't know about yet.

[WillowTheWhisp]

It sounds like it's an imported tanker load and that could have been shipped out by road to loads of different petrol stations up and down the country.

[K.S.H]

Will be still in the holding tanks, they won't tell you they have 1000's of gallons of the dodgy stuff, they'll mix it in with the good stuff in small portions to get rid of it