Johnny Bognor

Nice thought, but I've got the girls this weekend and you can't get 2x child seats in my F-car. Anyway, I have gone for fuel evacuation which costs £130 plus writing off £57 worth of fuel. The guy said that there could be up to 4 litres of diesel in the system and hence I would probably have got home without any petrol going anywhere near the fuel pump (which is where the damage is done). Even if it had, a dilution ratio of 10-1 would limit the damage. Obviously removing the 'contaminated' fuel reduces the risk still further. Maybe bull, but surely if you physically remove the petrol then this reduces the risk? When they evacuate the tank, they: Drain the wrong fuel from your vechicles tank Flush the fuel system Supply 10 litres of the correct fuel Add a cleaning agent OK it has cost the best part of £200, but I would have to be really unfortunate to have done much damage and it is better to be safe than sorry. Lesson for the day: pay bloody attention when grabbing that nozzle

So perhaps a fuel evacuation call-out might do the trick which might cost me £150-£200, but it beats replacing the entire fuel system which would be £££££££££££££££££££'s

I have been a dozy **** and put £7 worth of unleaded into my 2006 BMW 525 Diesel. I then immediately put £50 worth of diesel in to dilute it. I then drove 4 miles home. Looking at the Internet there seems to be two schools of thought: 1. Keep adding diesel to dilute it 2. The fuel is contaminated and the damage is done - will need to replace the entire fuelling system which would seem to run into £££££££££'s What should I do??? Keep driving and dilluting with diesel? Get the tank drained and refil with diesel? Get the car back to the dealer? Stop worrying? Any advice would be greatly appreciated...

Whatever, you still won't get a rise out of me. Still grinning from ear to ear.

I meant beating Watford at Villa. Look who cares about the details right now, I don't. It will take more than a pedantic or two to wipe the smile off my face.

Had loads from Skates. But my favourite email is from one Spuds fan (who I've been winding up a treat), along the lines of...... "Stop talking **** and wake up. You'll never compete with Spurs ever again and you'll always be playing catch up." He is really quite irrate now and won't take my calls or respond. I think he still hasn't got over us beating them twice in one week including the 4-0 FA Cup win. I have to say the feeling of this takeover has got me grinning from ear to ear. Best 24 hours since beating Villa in the semis in 2003!

When we next play Spurs, Man U, Everton etc... (to the tune of OWTSGMI) Our billionaire, is richer than yours Our billionaire, is richer than yours He's got a few hundred more million Our billionaire, is richer than yours

Just got this email......... Flybe welcomes new Southampton FC Owners! To celebrate a new era for Southampton Football club, Flybe is launching a 2 day spectacular 'Just pay taxes and charges' flight sale. This massive moment in the Club's history is being marked with this great offer available on some of Flybe's most popular routes out of Southampton.

His name wasn't Tony by any chance was it? :D:D

Paupers Pompey Pompey Paupers ...to the skate chimes

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Too true, living in a PO Postcode has never felt so good. The skates in Chichester have been full of it and now the shoe is on the other foot.

****ing Brilliant! Living down here has never been so hard over the last 3 years as a Saints fan, but now....... Living in a PO postcode has never felt so good!!! We get Markus, they get nothing (by the sounds of it). Had a bit of fun with a few Spuds fans tonight along the lines of "We now have the 4th richest owner, but don't worry yours is still top 5!!!" Skates and Spuds are reeling. Can someone pinch me, just in case this is all a dream.

According to this, we are 4th!!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/2009/01/07/football-rich-list-roman-abramovich-knocked-off-top-spot-by-manchester-city-owner-115875-21021465/ Rich List Top 20 1 Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan (Man City) £15billion 2 Lakshmi Mittal and family (QPR) £12.5bn 3 Roman Abramovich (Chelsea) £7bn 4 Joe Lewis (Tottenham) £2.5bn 5 Bernie and Slavica Ecclestone (QPR) £2.4bn 6 Stanley Kroenke (Arsenal) £2.245bn 7 Alisher Usmanov (Arsenal) £1.5bn 8= Lord Grantchester & the Moores Family (Everton) £1.2bn 8= Dermot Desmond (Celtic) £1.2bn 10= Lord Ashcroft (Watford) £1.1bn 10= Malcolm Glazer and family (Man Utd) £1.1bn 12 Simon Keswick (Cheltenham) £966m 13 Trevor Hemmings (Preston) £900m 14 Mike Ashley (Newcastle) £800m 15 Randy Lerner (Aston Villa) £750m 16 Tom Hicks (Liverpool) £700m 17 The Walker Family (Blackburn) £660m 18 Mohammed Al Fayed (Fulham) £650m 19 Sir David Murray (Rangers) £600m 20 Steve Morgan (Wolves) £400m

That's a bit like Ben 10....... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_10) Except, in our case, it would be "Ben Minus 10"

Indeed. I've been sat on the Takeover Thread, refreshing it constantly until a bloke called masterbates returns from a papershop to post what's in the paper. Complete and utter madness. I cannot take another day of this as it is seriously affecting my metal state.

I can't believe I am sat here refreshing this page until a bloke called Master Bates gets back from a paper shop. This takeover malarky is enough to drive one totally insane.

You never know. The day my twin daughters were born, a neighbour photographed two rainbows over my house - he didn't know they were being born at the time. Co-incidence? Well I've never seen two rainbows at the same time before, so maybe we should all believe in rainbows?

Me too! Ended up searching all of the news sites in desperation to find out what was going on. Got back on to find out it was server maintenance.

I wouldn't call you dreadful......

You take the **** out of stmfo, but then post this..... "Scally post's" - should that not be "Scally's post"? "Ae you in the same room?" - hmm You do know how to make a fool of yourself.

My thing with May is personal, so should not be on the forum, but he is still second rate though. Agree with you to some extent about Clarkson, but the World According to Clarkson is quite a funny read - he is what I call a joker journalist and when bearing that in mind, he is taken in the right context and is not that annoying. On the Tyre thread, there is an argument about what is the best performance tyre to use. Top Gear could do a feature on this. Would it be more interesting than watching some boring celeb drive a crap car around an airfield? Probably, but instead they will try and put a Robin Reliant on the moon :rolleyes::rolleyes:

You cannot possibly say that, without question, as it depends what car they are going on and what conditions. Some tyres respond better in the summer / winter or the wet/dry. Perhaps this would be a good feature for Top Gear - what is the best performance tyre? It beats watching a rather dull celebrity drive a crap car round an airfield.

Just got back ..... Overall opinion - still one of the best motor sports events in the world, but for the first time, it felt a little bit samey, hence I left early. For the bikers on here, saw Peter Fonda go up on his Captain America bike. Watching the F1 cars go up was the best bit as it always is.

NC and JL - I'm not going to rise to the bait and get into further details as I can't be bothered and it's not relevant to the thread. Clarkson made Top Gear what it was (and 'is' if you like the current format), whilst also-rans like May have thrived off the back of JC's fame and talent. There are too many journalists-come-presenters on the show. For what it's worth, I preferred the previous format (circa 1988-late 1990's) when Tiff (a real driver) and Clarkson (the joker journalist) drove cars and reviewed them to decice which cars were best (in their respective classes). Sadly, the BBC have left the purist petrolheads behind and chased the popular TV audiences. You could call it dumbing down, which is typical of the BBC. The later format is boring - how many times do you want to see a celebrity drive a crap car round an airfield? Honestly? Anyway, I'm off to the Goodwood Festival of Speed.......