She called me because she couldn’t get her car started after work. We had to get it towed out of the underground parking which is quite a pain in the ass apparently.
I spent a couple hours troubleshooting the issue (smoky exhaust, barely started, ran like shit) and I burned out the starter in the process and had to put a new one in. Starters in these little 3.7L engines are pretty pathetic.
At some point in all this she mentioned she had filled up before driving to work, so I figured out how to jumper the fuel pump and pumped out this piss-colored junk. Feels oily like diesel, doesn’t burn explosively like you’d expect with straight gas.
Fresh fuel and some Seafoam snake oil to maybe clean injectors. Since I didn’t drop the tank to clean it perfectly, she’s going to put small amounts in for a few fills and burn it off completely between fills because the solution to pollution is dilution.
Her receipt showed she uses the gas pump, not the diesel, so I’m wondering how many people got to deal with this bullshit since I’m guessing the station got an entire compartment contaminated. Haven’t bothered to talk to the company, since I did the work myself and they certainly aren’t going to reimburse me for my time.
Ah well, it’s an excuse to do a pile of other maintenance I’d planned anyway and had parts for.
Wife is happy she isn’t buying a new car. Happy wife, happy life.
Man, at least publicise this more so that gas station goes down the drain.
They don’t deserve to be in business after ruining so many cars.
You have to fight for others that were also messed up. Don’t bend the knee.
Post this so your local community can acces it so they know and gather to sue the shit out of them.
Yes, please do this. You got lucky here, OP. Some people are going to end up spending absurd amounts of money without knowing the cause of the trouble, and will probably miss work because of this, possibly while living paycheck-to-paycheck. Money’s really tight for a lot of people right now, this can be disastrous for them.
You don’t owe the station anything, but your community deserves to know where they should avoid.