Today, I was at my grandfather's house and my car was low on gas. He said I could put some of his gas in my car. He accidentally gave me the wrong tank to pump it out of, and I put fuel in my car that he uses for his small plane. It never ran better until the engine exploded. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I let my brother borrow my car, as he had a job interview. I told him the tank was nearly empty and gave him $20 to put some petrol in it. Ten minutes later, he calls me, saying the car won't start. He filled it up with diesel. It's a petrol car. FML
Today, while pumping gas, I stopped to think about what a failure my life is, and how badly I've treated people in my past. While deep in thought, I accidentally pulled the gas pump out too far and covered myself with gasoline. FML
Today, my neighbor's son siphoned the fuel out of my lawn mower and put it in his car. What he didn't realize is that the fuel mixture I use in my lawn mower would ruin his car engine. His dad says it's my fault and actually insists I should pay his pissant son's repair bill. FML
Today, my dad agreed to let me borrow the car to go rock climbing with my friends. He'd just filled it up with gas, which is how I realized halfway back home that one of my "friends" had siphoned well over half the gas straight out of the tank. FML
Today, when paying for gas, I realized I'd forgotten my wallet back home. After a moment of panic, I managed to remember my card number. I paid, blowing the cute cashier's mind, and drove away, before my car started sputtering and slowed to a crawl. I'd used the wrong fuel. FML
Today, I picked up my car from the repair shop, drove two miles, and ran out of gas. I then walked to get gas, put a gallon of gas in the car, and tried to start it. The battery was too weak to start the car, and died on the spot. FML
Today, while on a road trip with my friends, we stopped at a gas station to fill up. While I was pumping gas, a gust of wind blew my hat off and it landed in a puddle of gasoline. When I picked it up, my hands were covered in gasoline, so I smelled like a gas station for the rest of the trip. FML
Today, I stopped at the gas station to fill up my tank and get some snacks. I paid the cashier, then got back into my car, totally forgetting to pump the $50 worth of fuel I'd just prepaid for. Too bad I didn't realize until my car came to a sputtering stop about a mile down the road. FML
Today, trying to do something nice for my brother, I filled up his truck's gas tank. I didn't realize until too late that it's a diesel. FML
Today, I was syphoning some gas from my truck to my friend's car just enough to get to the gas station. I told my friend to let me know when the gas was coming; he said, "Alright." Suddenly, I got a mouth full of gas because he was on his phone taking a video of me. He got the whole thing. FML
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Fresh2death2021 0
hmm... reminds me of family guy, when peter put jet fuel in his car because he thought it would fly, lol...fyl dude...
yourlifeisfunny 0
For all you haters: The gasoline used for airplanes is much higher octane, like 105 or so. When you put that in a normal car, it runs great, you get more power, but the engine overheats. So the term "blowing up" means that the engine overheated and seized up, possibly a cracked head. So he would not have died. Dude, just pay attention to your car.
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snowsock 0
Shouldn't you be dead? oh shit! FML from beyond the grave!
railfan_fml 0
never trust a geezer :-/ that sucks...make him fix it
sexymessy 0
Lol you made me laugh =)
horneyhic 15
Race fuel is either methenol or 120 octane fuel the teams can chose between those 2. And it burns so hot in an average engine that once the engine get warmed up the heat of the last power stroke will ignite the next power stroke even if u cut the spark (this is wat turning the key does) Im not sure about small plane aviation fuel but I no jet fuel has kerosene mixed in it so it burns even hotter and no his engine wouldn't lotteraly explode but it would melt down and either sieze or drop a cylinder and to the idiot who sayed putting gas in a diesel will blow it up do some reasearch on deisel engines will u I'm a diesel mechanic and I've fixed tractors that stupid ppl put gas in instead of diesel they don't blow up they just don't run. Compression ignion fires the fuel in at the right before of supposed to ignite to prevent preignition gas simply won't ignite though compression...well it will but not on every stroke it becomes sort of hit and miss and if ur lucky it might run really shittily but most likely it won't
brodie1709 5
if you put gas in a diesel can't you just pour a bottle of mixing oil in and it will run like normal?
Caporegime1984 1
It probably didn't blow up, it probably overheated and he didn't notice, and it's also rather likely it seized. If you've watched any of the CFC videos where the government murders good engines, then you can see the similarities watching an engine seize in a certain way to being "blown up." Not saying it's definitely not fake, but you all are looking a little too hard at this.
jlberglu3369 0
100LL aviation gasoline would not cause the engine to blow up. By definition it is a higher octane and more stable than car gasoline. It would NOT cause the engine to overheat....in fact, a lower octane gas would cause overheating from preignition and engine knocking, etc. A higher octane fuel like 100LL would have the opposite effect, then. Like it's already been mentioned, yes the tetra-ethyl lead in the aviation fuel would mess up other parts of the car (O2 sensor and cacalytic converter). You did not put 100LL into your car to make it "explode". The only thing that I see happening is if you put Jet-A fuel into your car. While this is usually used in jet engine aircraft, there are diesel conversions for some aircraft, such as the Maule series of aircraft. For someone that is used to airplanes being 747s, a Maule M-7 is definitely a "small plane", and I do know of some people who keep Jet-A on their property in the country because they do not visit airports with fuel services often. This Jet-A would then mess up your car engine very severely.
notveryfast 0
by small plane did they mean like RC plane? because if it was, it would have been nitromethane, which would absolutely mess up the engine... or if it was race gas with a high specific gravity and leaned out...
p00p0ster0us 0
Is that when you flew into a rage? Did your temper soar? Such a mistake would definitely fuel my anger.
ender345 0
who's to say his grandpa doesn't own a leerjet?
TheIrishJaneDoe 9
Yeah sure, OP, blame it on the gramps. C'mon, fess up-- this is how it went down: *sees avgas label* *has daydream* "Well, that's all the motivation I need to do this!"
JayTroi 0
So take the jet to work LOL I bet it'd get you more poon anyway
JayTroi 0
LMAO we're on the exact same page