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| Ran out of gas...... Well, it could have been worse, I had gone to the local country store, about 5 miles away. I had a bit of a hard time starting the truck when I left the store, thought it might have been a bit of bad gas. On the way home I punched the gas a few times, was runnig fine. Got home no problem. Later I went out to park the ML in the garage, would not start....I started thinking Harmonic balancer. Trip computer said I still had 80kms left...Hmmm. I happended to have some High test in my garage for the boat, so WTF, I put 5 gal. of gas in, and....started no problem....Lucky me!!  | ||
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| pleubner Date registered: Apr 2006 Location: Basel, Switzerland Vehicle(s): ML270CDI Brabus-W163,SL55 AMG-R230,ML320 CDI-W164  | Re: Ran out of gas...... ...LOL, That's almost as good as the stories on BW a long time ago. The subject was something like "what is the most stupid thing you did with your ML" .... anyway this member tried to transport a Mattress on his roof wihtout securing it .. of course it blew away ! and on the freeway too! .... I might as well pitch in here too!
Quite a while back I was working in Munich, Germany for "Oracle" , but living in Basel, Switzerland ..... I had to drive 550Km one way (1100km round trip) each week home for the weekend. As per usual heaps of work ... working almost to 3-4 am on fridays.... Now for the background information: I owned a Diesel W210 Estate Avantagarde 290T at the time. In Switzerland all Diesel pumps had "black" plastic grip handles! Petrol has "Green" grip handles.
Now for the story: One Friday night at 5.00am I had to stop on my way back roadside stop on the autobahn (petrol + 5-6 expresso's) .... Being in a half zombie frame of mind I grabbed the black handle of the pump and filled her up! payed for the pleasure, and followed up with the dose of expresso coffee. Got back into the car drove about 400m before the damm thing spluttered and died on the autobahn. For the life of me couldn't figure out what was wrong .. called roadside assistance who very quickly found out I had poured petrol instead of diesel into the tank... we had to transport (on the back of a truck) my car to the nearest (Augsburg) MB Dealership , and drain all the petrol out... after filling up on diesel , it ran perfectly again..... That's when I learnt 2 things :- 1. Not all black grip handles in Germany are for Diesel. (and it is best to always double check ... even in a state of delirium 2. Only CDI engines get blown up if you fill them with petrol . The older Turbo Diesels just need the petrol to be replaced with diesel ....
I GUESS YOU COULD SUM THIS UP AS RUNNING OUT OF THE "REAL" GAS !
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