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saffylady wrote:This was back in the day when petrol was by the gallon and £30 filled your tank (sweet distant memories!) I actually remember I coated the concrete with £33 thinking I' sure it only takes £30 to fill??!! The camber of the concrete ran away from the car so only when I saw the flood on the other side of the car flowing across the forecourt did I notice something was wrong, pulled out the nozzle and realised I could also see the floor through my filler cap! I paid and left discreetly
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2004 Iron Grey 407se 136bhp......Written Off
2006 Moonstone blue 407 se 136 bhp.....Written off
2006 silver 407 SW..........replacement
Ha! It was the kind of circumstances that does have a stupid edge to it I know, but it's one of the things that you would very least expect to happen! As far as I was aware that petrol nozzle was inserted into my fuel filler pipe filling petrol into my car! It could happen to any one...............who had a Montego
A self-lightening car! I had a few of those myself So, not alerted by a splashing noise? Was it raining??
saffylady wrote:I paid and left discreetly
"I'm sorry but my rust bucket has turned your forecourt into a potential inferno, I think you need to call someone" Ah well, I probably would have done the same when I was a lad.
saffylady wrote:This was back in the day when petrol was by the gallon and £30 filled your tank
I remember my mum driving our converted Hillman Imp van (LUF 702F) into Marshfields service station on the Sewardstone Road and asking the old boy who worked as the attendant there for "a pound's worth", which was enough to get her around for a week.
steve_earwig wrote:Akchewally, I was trying to find some sort of historical table with how much petrol actually cost in about 1970 but I can't find anything
Interesting read djp, funny how the prices started to shoot up when Maggie got into government
1996 406 1.8LX Got a bad case of hydro lock!
1996 406 Executive 2.0 Turbo XU10J2TE No longer hangin' on in there
1997 Honda CB500V
2003 Volvo V40 1.8 GDi SE killed by a nutter in a beemer 5 series
2008 Mondeo 2.0 TDCi Titanium X
"Always look on the bright side of life, dedo, dedo dedodedo"
I guess I'm remembering from just after decimalization, so 35.25p per gallon would be 2.8 gallons. Not bad for the school run and shopping trips for a week.
Incidently, that's 7.76p per liter.
teamster1975 wrote:Interesting read djp, funny how the prices started to shoot up when Maggie got into government
Hilarious. Not. Is the old witch dead yet? "This bag of shopping from Harrod's is smaller than this bag of shopping from Tesco's"
HI Saffy,Welton, You caught my attention when I saw the words "Throttle Potentiometer".I have owned a MK1 1996 2ltr petrol LX 406 from new and have covered 137,000 trouble free miles in her,until march this year that is.I will just give you a brief run through of what has happened.
My car would jerk/jolt when i lifted the throttle off to allow the engine to slow the car down and when i put the power back on .and it had a high tickover if i engagaed neutral while the car will still rolling,and would only resume the normal 950 rpm once the car had come to a complete halt..The car has had its stepper motor and map sensor replaced.But the faults still remained and the fault light then started coming on,so the oxygen sensor was replaced along with having the Adaptives reset properly this time!!!! .This seemed to make things a lot better and the fault light stayed off,until about a week later.The fault light came on again about once in every 3 trips and the jerk came back but on an intermittent basis and not as noticeable.The dealer had it back yesterday and ran every test he could think of,he even got a reading of lamda1 ,which he said was as good a reading as any car could get.The downloaded fault code suggested an "Intermittent fuel regulation fault",which he said could only be caused now by intermittently incorrect voltages being sent to the ECU from the throttle pot,caused by a worn track inside the pot.I suppose the TP could be worn as the car has covered 137,000 miles.Do you think the TP could be worn in various positions as he suspects.
Paul
MK1 1996 2Ltr 16v Petrol LX, 167,000 miles,was aiming for 200,000.
The camber of the concrete ran away from the car so only when I saw the flood on the other side of the car flowing across the forecourt did I notice something was wrong, pulled out the nozzle and realised I could also see the floor through my filler cap!
and left discreetly
It was the kind of circumstances that does have a stupid edge to it I know, but it's one of the things that you would very least expect to happen! As far as I was aware that petrol nozzle was inserted into my fuel filler pipe filling petrol into my car! It could happen to any one...............who had a Montego 
Ah well, I probably would have done the same when I was a lad.
