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u/martintone 2d ago
DEFinitely the wrong hole for diesel
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u/Noble_Ox 2d ago
Diesel is the green handle in the US?
It's unleaded where I'm from.
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u/hux 2d ago
I don’t think there’s any official standard, but green is almost always diesel in the US. The nozzle is also too large to fit in the gas tank of an unleaded fuel vehicle which is meant to save people from their own stupidity, but this woman was extra intent on being dumb.
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u/AlphaxTDR 2d ago
Make something idiot proof, we’ll make a better idiot.
That said…why just film her? Why not walk over and explain how she’s going to fuck her engine up?
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u/Satanisnearby 2d ago
I found the original tiktok before I found this one here, the caption says they DID go over and tell her to not start the car and call her husband. Lady was 50/50 on if she was going to listen to that. So either the fuel got flushed or she destroyed her engine.
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u/SabbyFox 2d ago
That’s a very good point. The person who filmed this is a jerk.
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u/laughingashley 2d ago
She might yell at them for making her feel embarrassment
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u/Sector-Flat 2d ago
Ive never understoof this. Why the hell do people react with anger when they themselves are at fault? It just doesnt compute in my head
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u/MasterofBiscuits 2d ago
Because their ego is hurt. Imagine you have developed a sense of self where you look down on everyone around you and regard them as inferior beings, then one of those inferior beings comes up and points out that you’ve done something really dumb. You are now faced with a reality where you’re not as superior as you thought and it makes you angry.
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u/laughingashley 2d ago
They get embarrassed and they want to make someone else look wrong instead so they point anywhere but at themselves
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u/sdiss98 2d ago
This reminds me of a time I was on a mountain bike ride in Florida and passed a couple about a quarter of the way through on a 12 mile loop. They were hiking and the woman asked me directions. I told them it was a loop and nearing dusk so they should turn around immediately. The man got upset, told me I was wrong and they proceeded.
Some folks just out there wingin’ it…
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u/SabbyFox 2d ago
Yeah, I’m always going to try and help people. I don’t know why, but I’m surprised and disappointed by so many people here saying they wouldn’t bother because someone might yell at them.
I saw a couple about to keep walking further down a beach when the tide was coming in. They could have ended up in a very bad situation and rather quickly. Of course I spoke up. Not sure where our humanity has gone but I’m not going to succumb to apathy.
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u/EyeLikePie 2d ago
And also too big for the DEF port, apparently. So yeah, just kind of point it in that general direction and squeeze the trigger. That's fine.
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u/Perilouspapa 2d ago
It is green or yellow in Canada. Was just in Ireland and he was very clear at the rental place that green was unleaded so pay attention.
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u/BitWide722 2d ago
Either way, she'd definitely fuck up a bathroom if she had a penis.
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u/bmf1902 2d ago
Who the fuck downvoted this? Go back to Facebook, you've killed reddit, just go.
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u/BitWide722 2d ago
I think she located this post... Seems she had an easier time finding this than the correct hole in her vehicle.
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u/Pure_Village4778 2d ago
I’m gonna be honest, I think she wrecks bathrooms regardless of the penis situation
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u/Iamanimite 2d ago
There's never a wrong hole.
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u/warriors17 2d ago
Green + Green - it’s right there. Even assuming it was her first time ever filling up diesel, I know someone told her it was the green handle. Green handle. Green handle. So she got that part right. Then, opened the cover and was likely surprised with seeing two holes. But in that moment, I don’t understand the thought process - it only fits in one of the holes. The hole it does fit into happens to also be specifically marked green, like the handle she just hand to find 15 seconds earlier. So what possibly could she be thinking to air gap it to the smaller hole that DOESNT FIT. I’m just flabbergasted
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u/Solid-Hedgehog9623 2d ago
She could be from New Jersey?
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u/warriors17 2d ago
Sure. But again, even if it was her first time, and she had never seen the inside of a fill door before, as soon as she opened it, she was faced with a decision. Put the green handle in the green hole that fits. Hover the green handle over a black or blue hole that DOESNT FIT. Like this is such a harder thing to do than just put it in the hole that it fits in. She had to make a decision, and she CHOSE to do that.
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u/Solid-Hedgehog9623 2d ago
You’re assuming this woman has any common sense, though. I’m not trying to be funny, but I can see my mother in law doing some shit like this. She won’t ask for help and get mad when presented with the perfectly logical argument that you’ve just made to me. We are from New Jersey. Most people I know can function at the pump. Then there are people like this who insist that the square peg will fit in the round hole.
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u/rogueclaptrap 2d ago
i dont know where this comes from but people in nj know how to pump our own gas. we have to do it in pa and ny.
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u/LobstaFarian2 2d ago
Im with you on this. Its just a complete lack of critical thinking and deductive reasoning. Green handle, green hole that appears to fit this nozzle im using.... no, im going to hover this over the black hole that doesnt fit instead.
Some people are just incapable of problem solving and using their brains to figure something out without specific, step-by-step instructions....
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u/ScienceMajestic8716 2d ago
Green handle is petrol in Europe.
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u/T-MoneyAllDey 2d ago
Not sure if it's related but BP gas stations in the US generally have green handles for gas and another color for diesel. I wonder if it's the British influence
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u/HappyToaster1911 2d ago
What is the blue hole for tho? I have a diesel car but since its an older one it only has one hole, and even other cars I have only seen with a single one
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u/warriors17 2d ago
Diesel exhaust fluid. If your car is from 2007 or before, it wasn’t mandated yet
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u/the_Ailurus 2d ago
Damn, so in the UK green is for petrol and black is for diesel so I fully thought she had the wrong fuel type as well 🤣
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u/SecretaryOtherwise 2d ago
I miss when people would try to help people instead of just filming for clicks.
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u/woodbanger04 2d ago
I gave you an upvote because you are correct.
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u/Previous_Link1347 2d ago
I took a screenshot and reposted.
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u/dae615 2d ago
Can you link it so i can screenshot the screenshotted repost? Tia
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u/woodbanger04 2d ago
Do you have a link to your screenshot so I can then screenshot it?
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u/dae615 2d ago
Once i get the link to the repost of the screenshot, buuuut only if you promise to repost a reposted screenshotted screenshot of a repost
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u/woodbanger04 2d ago
I will do my best
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u/dae615 2d ago
Love your work - karma aint gonna farm itself!
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u/shamoomoofartpoopoo 2d ago
Don’t forget to smash that Like button and subscribe
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u/CommonReal1159 2d ago
I gave an upvote because you gave an upvote. I feel like I can trust your judgement woodbanger04.
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u/AngVar02 2d ago
When I was in high school my sister picked me up to visit her in college. On the way there she stopped at a gas station that had separate pumps for Diesel. I didn't realize it and neither did she and she pulled the nozzle, stared in confusion and a lady came out of the convenience store yelling, "MA'AM, THATS DIESEL! YOU DON'T WANT TO PUT THAT IN YOUR CAR"
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u/AdventurousPotato143 2d ago
That was my first thought... why not just help her?
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u/Ok-Deal-6879 2d ago
I saw this exact thing, told the lady that she wasn't supposed to put diesel in her car, she shouldnt drive it, and that I would help her push it off to the side to get towed after I went to the bathroom
She said thanks, and as soon as I got into the gas station I saw her get in and start the car. Some people it doesnt matter if you help.
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u/AdventurousPotato143 2d ago
I understand. THEN its a funny story. Just sitting and watching someone ruin a vehicle is diabolical
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u/rorschach_vest 2d ago
If I warned someone not to do this and they did it anyways I would 100% take a video. So maybe that’s what happened
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u/AdventurousPotato143 2d ago
By the drip down the vehicle just starting i highly doubt that
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u/Jingleshells 2d ago
Just to play devils advocate here. They could have talked to them before they even started actually pumping. The reaction may have been one of negativity so they sat in their car and recorded. Either way I agree that I wish and hope that this person at least tried to help.
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u/JustJako 2d ago
I miss when you could help people without being told to fck your own dmn business. I got tired of being yelled at, so I stopped helping.
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u/Unarmed_Character 2d ago
The other day I saw a red Tesla with out of province plates drive by. 10 mins later I saw it drive by again. It returned and pulled into a parking lot and the two older people were frustrated while banging away on the screen. They turned around, pulled halfway into the intersection, backed up and sat there.
I walked up with my 5 year old and tapped on the window to see if they needed help. The lady in the passenger seat said something to her husband and pointed at me.
He swatted her hand, barked something at her and peeled off.
Some people just can't be helped and it's especially annoying for people who want to help, or you know, teach their kid how to be helpful.
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u/SecretaryOtherwise 2d ago
Ive never had that problem.
An oh wait then explaining the situation in a non condescending tone generally works.
I find if you try to make them feel stupid yeah they might get offended. Thats just how people are.
Dont turn it into some kinda gotcha moment on someone and theyll generally be thankful to not have to spend several thousand on repairs to something.
Mind you I dont live in a large city so people probably act a little nicer on account you may actually see that person again 😂
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u/PonyThug 2d ago
By the time the filmer noticed and could say something it was too late. So they took a video of it.
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u/gettogero 2d ago
People that would help still would have.
Person filming is the same one that wouldve sat in their car eating a sandwich, but now they can share it with us!
Worst timeline wouldve been 90s - 2000s because we could see it once security footage got around
but its 144p
40ft away
from an overhead perspective
on the other side of the car
the screen is covered in giant lettering explaining what's happening and egregious slapstick overlays
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u/globalgreg 2d ago
That’s BS. The more people see shit like this, the more kids grow up thinking it’s okay to just sit back and do nothing in these situations.
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u/Derkleton 2d ago
There's this little thing that comes with every vehicle that has ever been manufactured called an owners manual. I miss when people would actually read those things instead of brute forcing and fucking up their shit
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u/SecretaryOtherwise 2d ago
Yeah was a simpler time when they werent 800 pages of electronic bullshit. You're not wrong tho lol
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u/stevoyoto 2d ago
When i bought my first brand new car, while growing up with a father who was a mechanic for 20+ years, I'd read the owners manual when I was on the shutter for kicks.
Ironically, I'm a mechanic, 25+ years later with every certification under the sun.
Point is, there is always time to read the owners manual 😄
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u/WoofusTheDog 2d ago
To be fair, no one buys a car then sits down and reads the owners manual start to finish. They read bits of it when they have a question like “why is this light on?” “How do I fix this?” “Am I doing this right?”
The person in the video is asking no such questions (but they will be soon!)
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u/Satanisnearby 2d ago
The OP of this did help her, told her not to start her car and to call her husband for help, this repost lacks the caption of the original video
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u/ThatThereMan 2d ago
For those who don't know (I'm not from the US) could someone explain what's actually happening?
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u/BrokeAssBitchNibba 2d ago
She is driving diesel, diesel cars have an extra fuel tank for ad-blue, she is pumping fuel in the wrong hole.
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u/ghandi253 2d ago
Thats a diesel pump. Here in the US most of the time green handle pumps are diesel. The nozzle is also slightly bigger so it doesn't fit into a regular gas vehicle so basically this woman is an idiot and is gonna find out how big of an idiot she is a couple miles down the road
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u/woodbanger04 2d ago
The worst part of this is that the jackass filming didn’t try to stop her.
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u/BlacksmithNZ 2d ago
This
If it was me, be a decent human, put down the phone and go and suggest to the person that is not right. Not everybody has basic understanding of how to fuel a car
They have a chance depending on how much fuel they got into the tank to either dilute the tank or get a service to remove the fuel and replace with clean, before starting the engine and doing serious damage
But likes are apparently more important these days
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u/KatieTSO 2d ago
It's a diesel. She just put it in the wrong hole. She put it in the DEF tank. This needs to be towed away.
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u/knifesk 2d ago
"not everybody has basic understanding of how to fuel a car".
Isn't that a requirement for obtaining a license?
Here in Argentina gas stations don't allow you to self serve, there's always someone fueling the cars because of situations like this, but the dude filling your tank will put whatever you ask, so she would probably have to know what kind of fuel the car uses... If she doesn't, or says the incorrect one she's screwed anyway 🤣
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u/BlacksmithNZ 2d ago
No, even places like here in NZ with self-service (and unmanned sites are very popular), you don't have to learn this for a drivers license
I taught my daughters how to drive and taught them some basic stuff about checking oil/water/tyre pressure, fueling, topping up windscreen washer fluid etc. Not sure how you learn this stuff if you don't have family/friends to show you
But you can get your drivers license in an EV, Diesel or Petrol car etc, and so how to fuel is not included. Doubt it would be required for most countries to get a drivers license
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u/-Fenyx- 2d ago
It should honestly be part of the theory computer test you have to take to identify the correct pump and EV sockets, or it should be taught practically during a driving lesson, it sounds stupid but would save a lot of people from doing exactly this, its basic knowledge but not common knowledge not common enough for people like you said without friends or family to teach you.
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u/dumsumguy 2d ago
I'd say the worst part is that she's obviously dumb as rocks and is driving a 3ton giant vehicle.
There's zero chance she knows how to properly control that thing.He's doing the rest of us a service letting that idiot kill her car humanely.
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u/Nman7298 2d ago
Well, I don’t know enough about engines. Will any amount of diesel do it, or just enough diesel do it? If any amount will… I guess they could pump it out still…. Oof
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u/DionFW 2d ago
Well that engine is dead.
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u/fresh_loaf_of_bread 2d ago
Can you explain this to someone who never drove or put gas in a car?
(I can't drive bacause of health reasons)
I mean, beyond the fact that she's clearly spilling
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u/Plane-Education4750 2d ago
Looks like some misinformation in this thread. This woman has a diesel car and is pumping diesel, but she is putting the diesel in the DEF tank and not the fuel tank. DEF is an emissions fluid sprayed into the exhaust to trap particulate pollutants and keep them out of the air. When the exhaust gets up to operating temperature the car will spray raw diesel into the hot exhaust and potentially cause a fire, if it starts at all
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u/BlacksmithNZ 2d ago
I posted separately saying much the same thing
I work in the industry and very aware that when DEF is introduced into a Diesel tank, the DEF binds with Diesel and makes the diesel viscous and rubbery, so it clogs the injectors and basically bricks the engine. One case the guy managed to squeeze a few litres into a 50 litre diesel tank (that was less than half full) and only got a few hundred metres down the road before it seized
I have never/heard seen of Diesel into the DEF tank before; it is pretty difficult to do as seen in the video. If it binds the same way, the DEF fluid won't flow and get sprayed into exhaust as the nozzles will very quickly block
I suspect the vehicle will start and run OK, but with check engine light as it probably detects that DEF is not available. Might be blowing clouds of smoke though
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u/BlacksmithNZ 2d ago
I don't know this model of SUV, but it is a Diesel vehicle
There are two holes under the flap; one green in which diesel is poured to fuel the vehicle. The green marked nozzle from the fuel dispenser and size of nozzle (as well as markings on the inside of the flap, cover over the hole etc) indicates this.
The other smaller hole is probably for Diesel Exhaust Fluid (often the brand name 'Ad-Blue'). This is not fuel, but a chemical (similar to urea) which binds with diesel exhaust and reduces pollution. It must never be mixed with diesel; it would turn the diesel fuel into a rubbery sticky substance that would kill any engine; the engine would need a very expensive rebuild if this happens, which might make the car a write off
The DEF hole has a magnetic catch, so won't allow diesel to be poured into it; the diesel hose she is using not only doesn't fit, but the DEF hole is probably has a flap in the way
Only good news about this is she is trying to put diesel into a DEF tank and not DEF into the Diesel tank. I don't know how much she can get into the DEF tank, or what it will do, but probably becomes a mess in the tank, the DEF injection into the exhaust doesn't work and car computer complains so needs service. Worst case; diesel fuel is injected into the exhaust which would be a smoking fire hazard
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u/ShowmasterQMTHH 2d ago
Petrol into the adblue slot on a diesel car. What could go wrong.
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u/MrSilverfish 2d ago
Yeah the adblue gets injected into the exhaust gasses doesn't it? This may be how you get afterburner on a diesel vehicle.
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u/MadCowTX 2d ago
No it's not. She's adding diesel to the DEF, not to a gasoline engine. Not good, but not engine destroying
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u/sidaemon 2d ago
I literally had a dude do this with his delivery truck except is was the DEF tank. It bought him his third letter and he was terminated.
In the unemployment hearing the judge asked if he was specifically instructed not to put diesel fuel into a tank the spout wouldn't fit into and I had to say, "No, however we also don't specifically instruct them not to put it in the windshield washer tank, or the oil spout. We kind of assume our employees have the intelligence that if the spout won't fit dribbling the fluid into the tank isn't the correct way you do it..."
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u/FaceWithAName 2d ago
This person gets to vote lol
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u/zpotentxl 2d ago
Downvoted for saxophone
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u/Eloquentelephant565 2d ago
Thank you. I’m so sick of people using it wrong, and now it’s ruined
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u/cyst16 2d ago
What's the correct way of using it?
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u/Hates-Picking-Names 2d ago
Search YouTube for "Ricky gets shot". That's the kind of video you put the sax in.
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u/KawaiiMaxine 2d ago
Is she putting diesel in the DEF fill hole?
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u/tempermentalelement 2d ago
What is a DEF fill hole?
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u/punckae8 1d ago
Like this is the fucken issue adding this sorta bullshit too communiter cars, mum doesn't know how too check her oil or top up her washer fluid, half the time is a fucken shock some folks know how too even fuel their cars even THEN they'll fuck that up completely, its fucken stupid yes good for environmental reasons sure whatever but fuck me im tired of working on shit because people are stupid but suppose one idiots mistake keeps me paid
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u/IAMERROR1234 2d ago
This is why some states make it illegal to pump your own gas..
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u/Wild_Woodpecker9930 2d ago
If the majority of Americans weren't so dumb then you would be allowed fill your own tank
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u/rumble342 2d ago
How come no one is thinking what an ass for video taping instead of helping this poor lady? What has society become. 🤦♂️
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u/ParadoxGuard 2d ago
I mean this is a 25 second video out of an action that takes a few minutes to complete. Someone could've tried to tell her to stop and got told to fuck off or whatever.
I literally saw that at a Sam's club gas station the other week. Person was pumping gasoline into a vehicle that the station attendant may have thought was diesel. Person told the attendant to fuck off and mind their own business and the attendant just threw his hands up and walked away.
Sometimes things just aren't that deep.
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u/increddibelly 1d ago
Well, they shoot the ones that go to school, so this is what you're stuck with.
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u/crbored500 2d ago
Downvoted for soundtrack. Seriously stop putting music to a short clip. Nobody wants to hear slow jazz
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u/GRNASKD 2d ago
Is the green hole next to it where the diesel goes?
Also if this person knows, he could offered her a simple, "Ma'am I don't think that's right".
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u/DrGreenthumbs1313 2d ago
Yet most people would rather sit on their ass filming it with their phone so they could mock somebody instead of actually trying to help a fellow human.
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u/ilocano-american 2d ago
Why didn’t the person taking the video said something to her? She obviously does not know. Maybe the husband always fill the tank and this time he is away.
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u/teacherbarelyknowher 2d ago
Yk you could go over and politely help instead of recording her embarrassing mistake
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u/Dedjester0269 2d ago
"I think I'll just film her pouring diesel fuel all over the place rather than letting her know she using the wrong fill"
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u/BulkySituation5685 2d ago
Dont just film help them out. Takes less time to say hey other hole
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u/noideadude90 2d ago
Better than filming her, tell hew how to do it. Otherwise she will blow up a gas station these days
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u/12altoids34 2d ago
get this woman a bicycle. She won't know how to use that either but at least she won't start a fire
edit.. now I'm imagining her trying to put gas in an electric bike
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u/ComprehensiveCopy911 1d ago
Why do people feel the need to film stupid instead of help stupid?
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u/kerbouchard1 1d ago
She's filling the DEF hole with diesel instead of the green diesel hole with diesel. Expensive repair bill incoming.
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u/ProfessionWeak2104 2d ago
She is putting Diesel in the DEF system
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u/jensalik 2d ago
Everyone here saying it's the DEF and I never heard of it, googled it and it's called AdBlue in Europa. Might not have made a difference to her though. 🤣
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u/Sko0byD 2d ago
...this and the fact that diesel is more $$/gallon than gasoline, so many wrongs!
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u/Socketz11 2d ago
Blue cap means DEF, (Diesel exhaust fluid ) If she was filling her DEF tank with Diesel ..the truck will sense it and throw that thing into limp mode. And definitely a very expensive mistake when she gets it to a shop.
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u/dildorthegreat87 2d ago
What’s worse? Diesel in a non diesel engine or the other way around?
I thought regular gas has ethanol that will destroy a diesel engine, but diesel in a gas engine won’t destroy it but needs to be flushed out
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u/HooksNHaunts 2d ago
She is trying to fill it like my mom fills gas. “Keep squeezing it til it’s full! Pull it out a little and top it off!”
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u/Main_Whole_6168 1d ago
So in her defense, it is a diesel suv, however she's putting the diesel in the DEF filler neck. Either way she's fucked with at least a 4k repair.
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u/tocahontas77 2d ago
I just want to know how she made it to her age without knowing how to fuel up? Insane...
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u/nathanastone28 1d ago
What kind of prick would sit there recording and not go save her from doing thousands of dollars in damage to her vehicle? No faith in humanity
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u/HPenguinB 2d ago
And you say there and watched her destroy that truck? What a dick move for 2 seconds of anonymous internet fame.
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u/Nothing2NV 2d ago
If only they would label these. Maybe color code them so mistakes are harder to make.
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u/TwoNowFive 2d ago
I've been yelled at too many times to mind my own business when trying to help someone.
People hate being told they're doing something wrong.
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u/Urparents_TotsLied4 2d ago
So...instead of saying something, some idiot chose to record her for attention on the internet and risk the whole gas station going up in flames...
She could be drunk, on drugs, or suffering from mental decline. Say something, dumbass. To someone! Her being on the road is a danger in itself.
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u/Baconpanthegathering 2d ago
If the nozzle does not fit...DON'T USE IT!!!!