Asda fuel contamination

vantard12

Recently bought diesel from my local Asda store (Coatbridge), car travelled 10 mins then lost all power. Local garage has put it down to contaminated fuel. Asda when approached refused to accept any liability for this incident and I am left with a bill of over £1,000 for the repair to the car. I still have two bottles of the contaminated fuel, what should I do next....?

AdrianC

You've got two bottles of contaminated fuel - but can you PROVE that fuel came from that Asda, and wasn't contaminated afterwards? You can prove you bought some fuel there, but...

If there was a contamination problem at a supermarket filling station there would be a lot of dead cars with the same problem. If yours is the only case, then the problem is VERY unlikely to lie with the filling station.

tberry6686

How recently. If longer than the last few hours then it would have been all over the news by now and so is highly unlikely to be contaminated fuel.

BeenThroughItAll

vantard12 wrote: »

Recently bought diesel from my local Asda store (Coatbridge), car travelled 10 mins then lost all power. Local garage has put it down to contaminated fuel. Asda when approached refused to accept any liability for this incident and I am left with a bill of over £1,000 for the repair to the car. I still have two bottles of the contaminated fuel, what should I do next....?

Presumably the local garage's resident doctor of chemistry performed a detailed analysis of the fuel to come to this conclusion?

Here's a suggestion. I'm happy for you to come and pour your 'contaminated' diesel into my fuel tank. If my car breaks down, I'll pay you for it.

kaya

So the garage drained all you fuel, kept some in a bottle for you and charged you £1000? For what exactly? A new filter, quick syphon and Jerry can of fuel ? and how come nobody else has turned up making the same claims? Methinks your chosen garage is taking the Michael out of you

colino

That did happen in North Lanarkshire, six or seven years ago.

ChumLee

Mercdriver wrote: »

For Christ's sake this is now getting tiresome. Any new poster that posts something you might not like gets the 'dark matter' treatment. I don't know nor care who dark matter is, but grow the heck up. You're effectively calling every other new member a troll.

If it's tiresome to you then don't bother to login no one is forcing you to.

Zandoni

AdrianC wrote: »

You've got two bottles of contaminated fuel - but can you PROVE that fuel came from that Asda, and wasn't contaminated afterwards? You can prove you bought some fuel there, but...

If there was a contamination problem at a supermarket filling station there would be a lot of dead cars with the same problem. If yours is the only case, then the problem is VERY unlikely to lie with the filling station.

The problem is the OP doesn't know if he is the only case, Asda are not going to shout about are they.


It may be a good idea if the OP phoned around a few local repair garages.

AdrianC

Mercdriver wrote: »

For Christ's sake this is now getting tiresome. Any new poster that posts something you might not like gets the 'dark matter' treatment. I don't know nor care who dark matter is, but grow the heck up. You're effectively calling every other new member a troll.

TBF, a reasonable proportion of new posters ARE yet more of DM's identity-changes.

Stoke

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

Presumably the local garage's resident doctor of chemistry performed a detailed analysis of the fuel to come to this conclusion?

Here's a suggestion. I'm happy for you to come and pour your 'contaminated' diesel into my fuel tank. If my car breaks down, I'll pay you for it.

And me. I'm game for that test.

AdrianC

I'm not. Gawd knows what's in those bottles.