The grumpy thread

[Remspoor]

Autoshiters queue for fuel.

[goosey]

Later on I might try and find the petrol station with the biggest queue, force my way to the front of said queue and buy a newspaper or anything that isn’t fuel from the shop 👌

[louiepj]

Our Alhambraxy fuel light was on this morning and all petrol stations in our local are were already dry except for a shell garage with a £10 fuel limit..... and a Texaco with a long queue but no fuel limit so I joined in and refuelled.
I got £80 in the tank but need to drive around a lot this weekend so will probably be on half a tank by Monday.

[goosey]

 

If you’re in a rush just drive around the queue and fill up as normal- 

if you do try this please post the results here 

[louiepj]

Was working with an Italian man last year who didn't speak much English but his car a citroen C3 had broken down (flat battery).
I helped him out gave him a jump-start, got him home and tried charging the battery but it was knackered so I took him to Euro car farts and he bought a battery which I fitted for him. Battery in nice and simple check car is charging OK then bask in glory helping someone out.
Till a week later when the battery is flat.
Turns out the Ignition barrel is failing and sometimes the car keeps running when you take the key out, Full lit dash etc. I charge the battery and play around with the ignition key in the barrel and it starts behaving and working. Explain this all to them tell them to go to a garage or auto locksmith and get the car fixed. They do and get a quote for fixing of about £300+ so don't bother getting it fixed and instead just disconnect battery when it plays up (Citroen positive terminal is quick release clamp).
Yesterday I get message from them asking if battery is still under warranty? I replied yes it will be a 3 year warranty and he will have the paperwork in glovebox hopefully where we left it when he bought it. I stupidly popped in on them as they live in town out of curiosity as I have never had a battery fail so quickly myself.
The car is now not only stuck with ignition on but now is stuck in the cranking position and even when running it continues to crank!!!!!!!!.
Some people just cannot be helped.

Cheap ECP Lion Battery is struggling through this like a champ.

[reb]

I was only vaguely aware of there being fuel shortages, as I've not left the house in a while I've not needed to buy fuel, I have a third of a tank in the Volvo, that should do me until it's all fixed itself. Failing that I'm eligible for a bus pass. I'd rather drive though.

[MarvinsMom]

the house behind us has put their christmas decorations up.

tinsel, lights, and a fucking tree.

in September.

 

[MarvinsMom]

oh and me  father has reported that the petrol stations in Redcar have all been sucked dry, 

and there are massive queues at the Esso in town and up at ASBO's, both of which are limiting how much fuel you can pump.

luckily* for me, the Rover is on fumes, and i'm SUPPOSED to go back into working at the office on Monday.

i am going to to the right thing, and  not worry bout fuel until then, when hopefully most filling stations round here are dry........

[goosey]

Has anyone tried doing Click and Collect for Petrol? 

[Zelandeth]

I wasn't even aware of this nonsense going on until reading about it here...oh what joy.  The only car I currently have with an appreciable amount of fuel in is the one which is currently lacking a camshaft...

Well that will be fun when I next need to go out then.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

I suppose the icing on the cake would be if Insulate Britain tried to blockade petrol stations....

[LightBulbFun]

22 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

I wasn't even aware of this nonsense going on until reading about it here...oh what joy.  The only car I currently have with an appreciable amount of fuel in is the one which is currently lacking a camshaft...

Well that will be fun when I next need to go out then.

Syphon fuel from Mercedes into Model 70 which I understand is the most fuel efficient member of your fleet?  

(I also seem to recall the BX has/had a full tank of fuel?, although I do wonder what sort of shape its in! but then again a Model 70, with its compression ratio of 6.7:1 will pretty much run on anything vaguely flammable LOL)

[Tadhg Tiogar]

2 hours ago, Fumbler said:

..., I didn't even know there's a rush to buy fuel. What's going on!?

'Tis like the motoring public want to be architects of their own self-fulfilling prophecy 

[junkyarddog]

Fuel shortages?

Great,just as I'm driving  to the UK for two weeks.

🙄

[Spurious]

It's currently madness out there. 

At The aforementioned co-op station, the lady said they'd had 4x the sales of fuel today compared to a normal Friday. It was chaos and sadly I'd to stick £40 petrol in as I'm moving house. 

[High Jetter]

Saw a tanker at local Esso on way home  at lunchtime, was queued after lunch but just filled my van on way home as had only about 40 miles left and not much of a queue. 2 girls marshalling on the forecourt, said tanks probably half empty by now.

[anonymous user]

Still at least all the queues of vehicles with their engines running will build up the CO2 that we had a shortage of. Or is that the wrong type of CO2? 

As long as there isn't a shortage of tonic water it'll be fine.

[Sham]

Queuing up to buy fuel they think is in short supply with the engines running. These people are geniuses.

[Datsuncog]

Brimmed the Forester last night, so as not to have to worry about fuel for a few weeks. No queues locally for forecourts, though a few pumps were coned off.

This morning I noticed a funny noise from the driver's side wheel when I'm steering and braking...

Ah. That'll be why, then.

All juiced up, but it looks like I'll be going nowhere by Subaru for a while. 

The wishbone on the nearside looks fine, oddly; possibly it was replaced a while back and this is still the original.

Still, at least I didn't discover the problem at motorway speed... 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Fuel shortages because twunts are panic buying it?

 

It's toilet roll-gate mk2. 

 

We really are a nation of plebs. FFS. 

[matt79]

Is the person who shouted GO! to start the panic buying of fuel today the same person who shouted GO! to start the panic buying of pasta and toilet rolls last year?

 

[Matty]

Tends to happen every time the government says no need to panic.

[Spiny Norman]

From what I can see it's another mass panic engineered by the media, particularly the BBC who reported three days ago about a couple of BP stations having to close due to lack of drivers and it's been pushing its way up the billing since.

 

 

[inconsistant]

Im going to re create this photo from the 70s fuel crisis by queuing up to put petrol in my lawnmower.

[sierraman]

4 hours ago, MarvinsMom said:

the house behind us has put their christmas decorations up.

tinsel, lights, and a fucking tree.

in September.

 

Be glad. There’s people in Rotherham that don’t even take them down. 

[High Jetter]

Maybe they only got the assembly instructions?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

5 hours ago, Sham said:

Queuing up to buy fuel they think is in short supply with the engines running. These people are geniuses.

I'm currently in the automatic car wash in King's Langley Texaco after finishing at the stables. They ran out of fuel hours ago. There's not a drop of any fuel to be had in this area, or in Watford. There's plenty of cars just going up and down this stretch in the hope of fuel, and burning fuel doing so.

Government minister sez no problem with fuel. Grate British motoring public instantly disbelieves him and goes off on panic-buying spree, thus creating a problem where there hadn't been one before. 

Why do people do this? 'Tis like self-harming!

*shrugs*

[sierraman]

1 hour ago, High Jetter said:

Maybe they only got the assembly instructions?

Or maybe they couldn’t read?

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Had to fill up with diesel.  Was out anyway.  Tried four stations, only had super unleaded (included a 12-year-old in a school blazer and tie telling this to drivers - obviously a family-owned franchise).  Eventually found one station with diesel on an old b-road that used to be a main road 40 years ago and thus has an oversized station for the number of cars that go past.  Had to queue for about ten minutes.

It's really, really mad down here.  Nothing in Canterbury.  Nothing in Sandwich.  Nothing in Ramsgate.  Eventual success was somewhere near Wingham.

What really did horrify me was the queue at the attended petrol station outside of Sandwich.  It's right next to a level crossing, and cars were queueing up as you have to wait for an attendant to come out and operate the pump.  Some utter twit decided that driving onto the railway track before it was clear the other side was a good idea and was actually stopped on the track.

You'd hope Darwin would intervene but sadly there are other people on the trains too...

[beko1987]

My smugness is short lived as I've realised that to get to mums tomorrow I'm going to have the road blocked by people queuing to get fuel in at least one place 😂

I could go another way but that'll use more fuel as its shitty B roads which need 3rd gear and slow speeds... 

Dilemma