Smart car owner literally fills car with fuel

[TonyRPH]

Well, 4 litres so not quite filled!

I have no experience of a Smart car, so I can't comment - but is this actually possible?

Maybe a Smart car owner or two can comment?

Mother-of-two is trapped inside her burning Smart car after mistakenly filling the inside with fuel by putting the nozzle in the wrong hole in terrifying footage

[dandarez]

TonyRPH said:

Well, 4 litres so not quite filled!

I have no experience of a Smart car, so I can't comment - but is this actually possible?

Maybe a Smart car owner or two can comment?

Mother-of-two is trapped inside her burning Smart car after mistakenly filling the inside with fuel by putting the nozzle in the wrong hole in terrifying footage

Blimey! All respect to the guy who dragged her out of the car.

Pistonhead users are mentioned in the article - who have been caught out by wrong cap!

[Funkycoldribena]

TonyRPH said:

Well, 4 litres so not quite filled!

I have no experience of a Smart car, so I can't comment - but is this actually possible?

Maybe a Smart car owner or two can comment?

Mother-of-two is trapped inside her burning Smart car after mistakenly filling the inside with fuel by putting the nozzle in the wrong hole in terrifying footage

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=205&t=1713192

[rallycross]

That daily Wail article already quotes PH comments.
Having owned several of these older model smarts you'd have to be a complete idiot to get the fuel filler mixed up and put fuel in the air intake.

[Pesty]

Does that even open?

Look like it’s just an air inlet made to match the other side fuel inlet but the other side will open to put fuel in.
There doesn’t seem to be any hinges or anything.

[anonymous-user]

'When I got to the petrol station I opened that cap, saw what looked like the opening of the funnel for the petrol and pumped four litres in before I noticed the petrol was actually pouring out the bottom of the car onto the forecourt.
'I then go to the other side of the car and see what actually was the petrol cap.'



So having done that and filled an unknown part of the vehicle with petrol, and even noticed a huge petrol puddle and that she'd poured loads of petrol into the wrong hole, she then got in the car and started it up?

There are no words really for that level of stupid.

[Ari]

JimSuperSix said:

So having done that and filled an unknown part of the vehicle with petrol, and even noticed a huge petrol puddle and that she'd poured loads of petrol into the wrong hole, she then got in the car and started it up?

There are no words really for that level of stupid.

It's the Daily Mail, the words are mostly utter nonsense.

Julie said: 'Brian needs to be recognised for what he did.
'Everyone else had run away and I couldn't get out of the car - he saved my life.
'I couldn't get out because I had parked so close to the pump.

She couldn't get out, yet moments before she'd been outside the car filling it up..?

[King Herald]

JimSuperSix said:

'

There are no words really for that level of stupid.

They walk amongst us.

I saw one recently where a woman was trying to see into her fuel tank at the filling station.......

.....using a cigarette lighter! It did not end well.

[BoRED S2upid]

Wouldn’t the smell of fuel be overbearing inside the car? Yet she still starts it up and hopes for the best.

[rallycross]

BoRED S2upid said:

Wouldn’t the smell of fuel be overbearing inside the car? Yet she still starts it up and hopes for the best.

It does not go inside the car, it would go down the air intake into the induction system, but the engine on these is under the rear boot floor, there is a panel that hinges up to give access to the engine.

The dummy cap on the other side does not open, you'd have to force it off, not easy to do and there would be no petrol cap so you'd have to be a proper eejit to think that's where the fuel filler goes.

The only positive thing is at least thats one less Smart For two on the road - hateful things.

[dandarez]

JimSuperSix said:

'When I got to the petrol station I opened that cap, saw what looked like the opening of the funnel for the petrol and pumped four litres in before I noticed the petrol was actually pouring out the bottom of the car onto the forecourt.
'I then go to the other side of the car and see what actually was the petrol cap.'


So having done that and filled an unknown part of the vehicle with petrol, and even noticed a huge petrol puddle and that she'd poured loads of petrol into the wrong hole, she then got in the car and started it up?

There are no words really for that level of stupid.

I may be wrong, but the way I read that quote above it was 'not' from the lady who was rescued.
It was a quote from a PH - ie someone on here!!

I quote:
'On the forum Pistonheads.com, user trinny said:
'I decided to fill the tank for the first time this morning as I was going on a long journey.
'I had parked the car last night with the passenger side facing the kerb so when I approached it this morning I noticed what I assumed to be the petrol cap in the usual place.'

...(carry on with what you quoted above) 'When I got to the petrol station I opened that cap, saw....'

[dandarez]

md4776 said:

Brilliant from the man who saved her. faced with the actual scenario of a car on fire in a petrol station he ran to a car and pulled her out. I think most people would have went in the opposite direction as quickly as they could.

^^^^^^He thinks he's not a hero. I think he's wrong. 101 per cent hero.

[anonymous-user]

King Herald said:

They walk amongst us.

I saw one recently where a woman was trying to see into her fuel tank at the filling station.......

.....using a cigarette lighter! It did not end well.

Got a link to that one ?
sounds horrific

[Yipper]

Suspect the woman is probably not very well. It is a highly unusual thing to do.

[King Herald]

techiedave said:

King Herald said:

They walk amongst us.

I saw one recently where a woman was trying to see into her fuel tank at the filling station.......

.....using a cigarette lighter! It did not end well.

Got a link to that one ?
sounds horrific

Just to add to the jolly fun and games she then pulls the squirter out.....

https://youtu.be/myIbWvpPxu0

[mrtwisty]

How is it possible for someone to be that stupid, yet manage to live into their fifties?

So many individual acts of rank idiocy had to occur here, in sequence, for this to end the way it did.

-She will have had to prise that air intake cover off with quite some force and no little difficulty.
-Then to not notice that the hole underneath looks nothing like a fuel filler?
-Then hear fuel gushing onto the floor
-Then see a big bloody puddle of it on the floor
-Then just attempt to drive off!?!?!?

Truly, the mind boggles.

[robinessex]

TonyRPH said:

Well, 4 litres so not quite filled!

I have no experience of a Smart car, so I can't comment - but is this actually possible?

Maybe a Smart car owner or two can comment?

Mother-of-two is trapped inside her burning Smart car after mistakenly filling the inside with fuel by putting the nozzle in the wrong hole in terrifying footage

How/why was she trapped. She'd just go into the bloody thing !!

[Riley Blue]

robinessex said:

TonyRPH said:

Well, 4 litres so not quite filled!

I have no experience of a Smart car, so I can't comment - but is this actually possible?

Maybe a Smart car owner or two can comment?

Mother-of-two is trapped inside her burning Smart car after mistakenly filling the inside with fuel by putting the nozzle in the wrong hole in terrifying footage

How/why was she trapped. She'd just go into the bloody thing !!

By flames outside perhaps? Same as people get trapped inside rooms by flames the other side of the door.

[JagLover]

rallycross said:

The only positive thing is at least thats one less Smart For two on the road - hateful things.

My wife has one and as a little city car that you only very rarely take on long journeys they make perfect sense.

Aside from the known problem with the automated clutch linkage I don't think there is anything mechanical wrong with them, second hand ones are cheap to buy and they are fuel efficient.

[robinessex]

Riley Blue said:

robinessex said:

TonyRPH said:

Well, 4 litres so not quite filled!

I have no experience of a Smart car, so I can't comment - but is this actually possible?

Maybe a Smart car owner or two can comment?

Mother-of-two is trapped inside her burning Smart car after mistakenly filling the inside with fuel by putting the nozzle in the wrong hole in terrifying footage

How/why was she trapped. She'd just go into the bloody thing !!

By flames outside perhaps? Same as people get trapped inside rooms by flames the other side of the door.

If it happened to me, I'd be out of the bloody thing in milli seconds. It's women, whose normal reaction to an 'event, is to freeze and scream. I have a family of women who exhibit this behaviour.