Thread: stolen diesel

In a real modern diesel if it got past the fuel filter/ water separator if will stuff the high pressure injectors, seen it happen in the four wheel drive club

We just built and commissioned a new service station. It has an underground Adblue tank with a dual dispenser, one end of the dispenser is Adblue and the other end is diesel, both clearly marked with signage plus when you insert your card into the OPT it prompts you to accept warning you that you have pressed the Adblue icon.
All on cctv is some turkey pulls in, stands in front of the dispenser scratching is noggin, inserts card, pulls the Adblue nozzle and fills his Ranger, drives off.
Day later calls the gas station demanding they pay $30k for a new engine, it’s going to court in a few weeks so will let you know what happens.

I recall hearing someone in the bulk fleet somehow dropping adblue into the diesel at one outfit - that was an INSURANCE claim if I have it right.

I know 3 forum members that have had an Adblue rodeo, 2 were wives, 1 an employee

Originally Posted by 300winmag

We just built and commissioned a new service station. It has an underground Adblue tank with a dual dispenser, one end of the dispenser is Adblue and the other end is diesel, both clearly marked with signage plus when you insert your card into the OPT it prompts you to accept warning you that you have pressed the Adblue icon.
All on cctv is some turkey pulls in, stands in front of the dispenser scratching is noggin, inserts card, pulls the Adblue nozzle and fills his Ranger, drives off.
Day later calls the gas station demanding they pay $30k for a new engine, it’s going to court in a few weeks so will let you know what happens.

Thankfully not all Ranger drives are stupid (at least I think I'm not)

Apparently Brasso works a treat in removing the cylinder linings, just something I heard....

knew of a guy years back who accidentally topped up the engine oil in his mazda rotary with roundup. was a real mess

The guy I mentioned above had no insurance so is going the gas station direct, the gas stations insurance company are all over it but the guy isn’t giving up. The cctv footage is clear as day but I’m not the judge.

Originally Posted by gonetropo

knew of a guy years back who accidentally topped up the engine oil in his mazda rotary with roundup. was a real mess

Thats a real how the f question mark...

Originally Posted by gonetropo

knew of a guy years back who accidentally topped up the engine oil in his mazda rotary with roundup. was a real mess

Really drives home the importance of labeling containers, haven't had a proper stuff up yet but I've found all sorts of shit in all sorts of containers in farm workshops. Had a guy ring me because he had run side by side out of fuel so I grabbed a 20l fuel container from workshop that was half full and made my way to where he was, opened fuel container to put the nozzle on and straight away smelt it was straight chlorine! If it was the Nepalese guys without me around they would have just put it in the side by side without a second thought

Reminds me of a few years ago trying to be helpful to the front neighbour - was using left over weed & feed spray on their front lawn during summer while they were away. About 7-10 days later the lawn died off - a month later turned into a dust bowl. Looked in my garage and saw an empty Round Up spray container and a 1/4 full weed& feed container. Bugger... work mates did a few drive by's when I told them the story & took pics to give me a hard time. Son then told his mates what I did and well........

Originally Posted by gonetropo

knew of a guy years back who accidentally topped up the engine oil in his mazda rotary with roundup. was a real mess

It must have been done at night, roundup even as a concentrate behaves nothing like engine oil at all.

When I lived down the coast the local farmers who got sick of the night time mystery shoppers
used to put the petrol sign on the diesel tank and diesel sign on the petrol tank.
Often the local mechanics would get a breakdown call out and after towing the vehicle in
would do a ring around and the local farmers will go down and have a meet and greet with said mystery shoppers.
West Coast justice.
Cheers MG

Knew a bloke who had a boy racer problem on his dead end road
Hammered in some warratahs with them sticking out enough to rip off the engine sumps
Pulled them out in the morning, some big patches of oil

The locals knew so they didn't get hit

Originally Posted by pennyless

Unfortunately your unlikely to win this one if you spike the fuel.
It's a continuing problem in forestry and the potential cost of damage to gear has to be considered.
Locks only slow honest people.

A couple of decent cameras out of reach is an option.
I am aware of a number of cameras being stolen.
Possibly located with night vision gear from the IR flash.

The thieves in the Kaiangaroa Forest area are professionals.
Stealing thousands of $ of fuel and gear in a night.

Perimeter trip alarm that takes shotgun cartridges, can be easily bought here in the UK