The Zohan

Mate of mine worked in a garage, a non-male came in a paid for her fuel and bought a litre of oil. went out to her can, opened the bonnet................

.........she was still there hunched over the open engine bay after around 10 mins or so, my mate went out to see if he could help to find oil running out from under the car, she explained she was having trouble putting oil in her car. He had a quick look and advised her to try pouring it through the oil filler on the rocker cover instead of trying to pour it in through the dipstick hole!

[Edited by Paul Habgood - 6/4/2003 4:40:27 PM]

mj

a lad I used to work with topped up the oil in his car - he put in in the right hole - all the way to the fcukin top of the rocker cover , he never lived it down, needless to say the engine died shortly thereafter.

Edit to say - hey!, 2040 posts - nice

[Edited by mj - 6/4/2003 7:52:08 PM]

Kempo

This was hilarious - sat at the Sainsbury's petrol station last night for my wife to fill up her MR2. In front is Mr Micra giving his car a tank full of go go juice. The pump clicked off twice as the Micra reached it's capacity so what happened next?

Well, clearly enraged that the £10 he managed to put in was not enough he placed his hand on the back of the car and WOBBLED it! Yes, he wobbled it! 30 pence later he repeated the same thing and then finally accepted defeat that his efforts to displace the liquid in the tank were not going anywhere.

We and the wife looked at eachother for a few seconds and burst out laughing - the funniest thing I have seen for a long long time!

Paul

Paulo P

iTrader: (42)

Says something about Micra drivers that

SteveV-WRX

you think thats bad, me and my girlfriend were in a remote backwater garage in france last year and a french motorist in a clapped out renault 19 managed to get about another 5 quids worth of fuel in after doing this for ten minutes.

did get very pi55ed off waiting though!

Luke

Are you sure it wasnt a Subaru driver...... they often have to do this if going on a journey longer than 100 miles!!!

Lord Of The Bling...

well i`ve seen a female driver lock up her plain old corsa, put the krook lock on AND set the alarm, all just to pay for her fuel!!!!!!

robby

if he was so desperate to get some more fuel out of the pump and was willing to pay for it why didn't you offer the mr2 to him to fill up :-)

47 NAT

Talking of stupidity!!!

Years ago my little brother thought he'd help my mum out with her car at the time (Metro ) and put engine oil in the brake fluid reservoir and brake fluid in the windscreen reservoir. Topped them right up as well. He was about 9 at the time. Funny thing is hes now a head technician for a motorport company and is highly thought off in his trade....

Nath

-=Buzz=-

(Wo)man I know topped up her water at a garage as she decided the temp gauge was reading higher than normal... by putting a hose in the oil filler cap and filling it until it came out of the rocker cover. Then drove home, about 4 miles, and said to her husband that the car must have a water leak and that she'd filled it to the brim at the local garage.

He went out to investigate and look for a leak and found exactly the right level of water in the reservoir, so puzzled he asked her to show him where she'd put this water.

He emptied it out etc but 6 days later a conrod paid a visit to the engine bay

jbryant

I topped up an old Escort I used to own with oil, one frosty January morning many moons ago. Car lasted about two miles before I realised that I'd overfilled it. I realised this because I had a big white cloud suddenly start to follow me down the A4 .

The temperature was so cold that I couldn't read the dipstick properly and totally overfilled the engine Didn't help that I was somewhat brain dead from the night before!!!

What a dipstick!
Joolz

Huxley

What makes me PMSWL is when they lift the hose up to drain all that fuel that must be left in the hose

And people that pull in to the garage then get out to see where the filler cap is I saw this today it was a volvo driver she gets out walks a round the car see the filler cap get back in then goes to the pump much to the funny look her kids were giving here

Huxley

midget1500

lol @ nat

Ravster

A mate of mine parked on a garage pump behind a micra DOWNHILL of it. As the old lady was paying and as he was filling up, he stood there flabbergasted as the micra rolled down hill into the front of his car! Crunch!

She came back and claimed that HE has rolled his car into hers ... uphill!!! Uh?

After details were swapped her husband went round to his house claiming that he was trying it on with them just to get insurance money ... well he got the front end of his car fixed so I guess the insurance company didn't argue with the laws of nature!

PiNkEyE69

A few months ago I accidently put windscreen wash in the water tank (Same shape bottle, same colour fluid) - needless to say I had a lovely clean radiator on the inside
I drained it out the next day and refilled it just to be sure.

One of my ex's, upon seeing me top the oil up in my car, enquired as to if that is the same place where you put the petrol So wanted to say yes and wait for her to get a car

Fatman

Not so dramatic/funny - but I once had my ex phone me up from university, worrying about her car's engine oil. She was checking it and was worried that the oil was yellow-green. She had only ever seen the car's oil when it had been used, never recently after servicing!

Paulo P

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PMSL @ the stories

SiPie

Topped up with oil on my trusty 160k miles G reg Astra SRI many years ago

Drove 50 miles in a hurry to Coldingham and realised upon arrival that oil filler cap was still at garage 50 miles back up the road

Think car died at 161,000 miles

ME = Stupid ****

Paulo P

iTrader: (42)

lol

Kempo

I did the same thing when I filled my mum's old escort will oil and then left the cap on top of the engine. She started off on her 100 mile journey and it stopped after 50 miles - was never the same again (but she never charged me )

NotoriousREV

MrsREV managed to top up the power steering reservoir with water and screenwash in her Clio

The resulting mess was a rather fetching shade of pink

Paulo P

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Classic thread

fivepint

I had an old mazda 323 once which had a bit of coolant prob, one night out twith the mates pulled in to our local garage just to top it up! after about ten minutes standing with a hose going into the rad I decided to ask myslef why it wasnt filling up!!! i looked everywhere no leaks, i then opened the oil filler cap to be met with rising mayonnaise, Id fookin filled the engine with water!!!

I still have the broken rod which shot thru the block a few thousand miles later lol

even funnier was when it blew i was standing at the side of the road bonnet up, a huge pool of oil under the car when a nice lady came over and offerend me a jug of water for the radiator as she thought it was overheating!!! ironic

Ravster

ANother funny: Mate of mine filled up his VW Polo and left his filler cap off, having realised when he was filling up next in BELGIUM !!!!!

Phone call back here - "Can you ask the garage for a VW Polo filler cap?" We mailed it to him!