Mazda UK’s comments are that [a] 1994 Miatas had different emissions requirements, [b] They don’t actually know what those differences and are just going by what Mazda Japan has told them. They suggest Eunos Roadster owners ought to consult their owner handbooks.
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I have just filled up my Volvo estate with no problems at Tesco. I am driving from Cornwall to Havant and back this week so I need a tankful to get me there and back. I am off to Wales next week. My Eunos if off road on Sorn but has fuel in it, my motorbike will do 140 miles on a tankful. My Austin Seven will take me 100 miles with whats in the tank and my wifes car is full as she needs it for travel to work and I have a couple of gallons petrol in cans.
I think the panic buying has passed as all the greedy ones now have fuel.
The petrol stations should be very quiet next week. There is no fuel shortage apart from that caused by the panicked and they will have filled their cars and Jerry cans by then.
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I’ve heard you shouldn’t run your tank too low on grounds there may be muck at the bottom you don’t want in your engine.
Is the same true of forecourt tanks, so wait until next Tuesday when they’re nice and full again?
Typical, They don’t even know what a jerry can is!
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I believe this to be nonsense. The fuel is taken from the bottom of the tank whether its full or empty. Why would the fuel pick up more rubbish when the tank is empty?
Fuel filters are designed for this.
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Ah, there is a lot of nonsense being spoken out there it would seem then…
OK so yours is essential everyone else greedy😁
We all need fuel but oh, how we love to blame others who need it too , for whatever reason . ‘They’re all panicking, not me though , I’m only buying fuel when I need to’. Most people buy it when they need it and if there’s a shortage , for any reason. I’m not joining a lynch mob to condemn others who are getting fuel so they can get on with their lives .
The buck stops with government - such a problem has been foreseeable for months but , as ever , they seem to be unaware that national resilience - fuel , food , general infrastructure - is their ultimate responsibility . .
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Ask any forecourt owner. Demand is much higher at present because of panic buying. They aren’t just buying when they need it!
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I was just pointing ot that as My wife and I have multiple vehicles available to us the fuel crisis does not cause us any issues. The other vehicIes have fuel in them from the last couple of months .
I have only put fuel in one vehicle which has to go on a 300 + mile round trip in a day or two as it was below 1/4 tank. The fuel in cans is kept as spare for the old car a boat engine, strimmer and chainsaw also bought a while ago too. ( I put the fuel into the Bike and then fill the cans with fresh fuel every couple of months to stop having stale fuel )
Now if I was into panic buying I would tow the boat to a garage and put 50 gallons of unleaded into it drive the bike to fill it up then drive the Austin and finally take the Eunos to fill it up.
But frankly I cant be arsed to waste time and money doing that.
I’m just pleased that all this bleating on over fuel has stopped the bleating on about gas price rises.
Reminds me of when I awoke full of cold, moaning & groaning to myself as I struggled downstairs to made a lemsip. Burned my hand on the kettle and the cold was forgotten.
Blimey, how to be so perfect springs to mind.
Well, they are NOT!
Which is why we have the problem.
If they only bought it when they needed it why are all the petrol stations now shut because they don’t have any fuel because of PANIC buying.
I just had to do a 30 mile round trip and ALL of them are shut on the route taken.
Good luck if you can find one with fuel when you need it.
It’s got nothing to do with the government as it’s ALL the people buying it because they DON’T need it!
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Typically I’m on site all week for the 1st time since January the year before. My daily car has enough fuel for 2 days commute. Stopped at the garage on way home from weekend away earlier and no fuel.
Worst case got the MX5 which is full from august but hope it is ok soon! Don’t really want to take that to client site as it’s a bit loud😂
I think the filling stations are closed now because it’s Sunday night. Our unmanned ASDA (24hr) station closed at 4pm when the store closed. Fuel or no fuel because of clogged roads leading to it, the staff (from the store) had been directing the queues. Apparently today it has eased off a little, easier to get in.
Just shows the problems we have with these in/out roads to these shopping centres. Completely blocked yesterday and Friday, couldn’t even get to do the grocery shop. You have to pass the petrol site to get in then out, it used to have two ins and outs until they deemed it necessary to block one up.
And just to add, they had two fuel deliveries scheduled for this weekend, they booked another two and apparently all four arrived. Overnight (Saturday) they had three pumps vandalised, been fixed today I hear.
This is a good post (copied).
Petrol tanker drivers have an ADR qualification as well as a HGV licence. They need this for them to drive petrol tanker lorries.
There is a shortage of HGV drivers. That’s a true fact.
However HGV drivers cannot drive a petrol Tanker lorry without having an ADR qualification.
The UK had ADR drivers last week. NOTHING repeat NOTHING changed much in a week. Maybe some holiday or some sickness but not, I doubt a dramatic change.
The ADR drivers that were driving last week are still driving this week delivering fuel. So nothing has changed.
The petrol panic we are now experiencing is all down too media hype.
It’s not because of brexit because all the EU drivers went back to Europe. Which is some of the reasons being banded about.
These EU HGV driver’s, left months ago, and yet the country was still getting fuel without problems up until today.
So what’s changed? Nothing !!
Apart from the disgraceful media hype and scaremongering to make news. Too sensationalise the fact that a couple of petrol stations were getting a late delivery so they closed.
The Result of the media scaremongering!!
Massive panic and chaos by everyone. Which is now causing a shortage of fuel until the ADR drivers, that we already had delivering fuel a few days ago, can deliver again.
The media should be fined and penalised, severely for publicising false news and creating the crazy situation that has been going on all today. Disgusting. They should hold their heads in shame.
And to top it the government have 1000’s of trained military personnel who are available if there was a real fuel crisis. By Media!! By sheep, b****y selfish mentality.
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Don’t really know when the media stuff kicked in but Shell petrol stations around us had no Diesel Monday gone,we have Shell fuel cards at work so had to try find some with stock so there is some supply problem maybe not to the extent the media is making.
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Hoping to join the Solent brigade for the drive to Sammy Millers but with with less than a quarter of a tank of fuel left I drove to 6 petrol stations around Basingstoke and all were out of fuel. Got home to find event cancelled due to works on the M27 anyway! Will have to go to work tomorrow on my motorbike (rain forecast). Don’t you just love a British panic
Not quite. Arguably, the media were manipulated into a false message. Minutes of a meeting between government and BP had been selectively leaked (the alleged leaker is denying it), indicating that BP was running at 2/3 of the normal forecourt levels. The selective bit being failing to mention that BP had been managing at 2/3rds levels for several weeks already.
Its not clear why BP has been effectively quietly rationing fuel at petrol stations. The inference is there is a manning issue causing pressures on the system, and these issues will deepen as we head into winter when there would be, naturally, increased sickness absence. There are also going to be mounting cost pressures on the price of fuel; the cost of refining will also increase as other forms of energy increase in cost.
As with any other tank your petrol tank will slowly accumulate a thin layer of crud on the bottom. This is no problem if you fill the tank from a starting position of quarter to half full as the fresh fuel dropping onto the surface of the petrol has it’s motion arrested and dissipated by the existing contents. When your tank is almost empty the fuel flow in from the filler pipe initially drops hard onto the floor of the tank and disturbs the settled crud, mixing it up with your petrol so that it gets sucked into the fuel feed to your engine.