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> Sad day for this 918 owner, Torched at the gas pump
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post Sep 28 2014, 11:43 PM
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Looks like this new 918 owner had an awful experience at the gas station.
Jalopnik has the story, apparently the driver started to move away from the pump + still had the nozzle attached to the car (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
The fuel filler is in the area near the sail pillar, and the twin hot exhaust exits are up top of the engine grille.

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post Sep 28 2014, 11:57 PM
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post Sep 29 2014, 02:57 AM
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No one ever said you needed smarts to buy one of those, just be filthy rich! Then he leaves it right there by the pumps. Two seconds would have had it away from them before he got out.
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post Sep 29 2014, 08:44 AM
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post Sep 29 2014, 09:07 AM
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I guess the battery tray over the longitudinal wasn't the worst design flaw ever then...
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post Sep 29 2014, 09:17 AM
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QUOTE(Tom @ Sep 29 2014, 04:57 AM) *

No one ever said you needed smarts to buy one of those, just be filthy rich! Then he leaves it right there by the pumps. Two seconds would have had it away from them before he got out.



Yep...intelligence is not a requirement for becoming wealthy. Just look at most of the Hollywood elite
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post Sep 29 2014, 09:24 AM
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post Sep 29 2014, 09:33 AM
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(IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif) Those pumps are supposed to have a break away handle. How the hell did he manage to do that? Seriously something else had to have happened there. Gas stations are setup so shit like that can't happen. Especially right by their pumps (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)
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post Sep 29 2014, 09:36 AM
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gas tank isn't up front?
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post Sep 29 2014, 09:39 AM
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carefully fill without spilling fuel onto paint,then seal tank.

a momentary lapse,some distraction.
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post Sep 29 2014, 09:54 AM
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He should have hung the hose up in the pump receptacle when he was done filling it up.

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post Sep 29 2014, 10:06 AM
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I never understand how this happens. I've filled up 1000's of times in my life and not once did driving away with the handle still in the car even come remotely close to happening .
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post Sep 29 2014, 10:21 AM
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I never understand how this happens. I've filled up 1000's of times in my life and not once did driving away with the handle still in the car even come remotely close to happening .

I've grown up in Oregon & lived here most my life. We don't pump our own gas. I did this once in a rental car in Vegas. Started the pump & went inside to grab a drink. Came back out & got in the car & started to pull away. Heard something so stopped. I'd gone all of 6 ft but the handle had popped off like they are made to. I got out embarrassed as hell. It's never happened again but it is possible. I can only see it from someone who doesn't pump their own gas. Oregon is weird that way
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post Sep 29 2014, 01:26 PM
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The fuel nozzle+hose assy. is approx 8', just at the breakaway joint. The breakaway joint then leaves the remainder of the fuel hose attached at the pump. So whatever residual fuel is still in the 8' fuel hose section goes wherever it wants to during this (yanking) episode. These brain fading self serve customer incidents happen at my buddy's Arco station so often, that he keeps the repair o- ring kit and repair tool in his office. Luckily nothing more than spilled gas on the ground.
At the top of the 918 engine grill resides the 2 exhaust outlets, and directly below 2 mufflers+2 cats. Not a very welcoming environment with the introduction of raw spilled gas.
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post Sep 29 2014, 01:28 PM
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QUOTE(biosurfer1 @ Sep 29 2014, 09:06 AM) *

I never understand how this happens. I've filled up 1000's of times in my life and not once did driving away with the handle still in the car even come remotely close to happening .

I've grown up in Oregon & lived here most my life. We don't pump our own gas. I did this once in a rental car in Vegas. Started the pump & went inside to grab a drink. Came back out & got in the car & started to pull away. Heard something so stopped. I'd gone all of 6 ft but the handle had popped off like they are made to. I got out embarrassed as hell. It's never happened again but it is possible. I can only see it from someone who doesn't pump their own gas. Oregon is weird that way

Oregon has too many stoners to have people pumping their own gas... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smoke.gif)
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post Sep 29 2014, 01:33 PM
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QUOTE(Tom @ Sep 29 2014, 04:57 AM) *

No one ever said you needed smarts to buy one of those, just be filthy rich! Then he leaves it right there by the pumps. Two seconds would have had it away from them before he got out.


only have to be in the lucky sperm club and be born into it. very sad
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post Sep 29 2014, 01:45 PM
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QUOTE(JRust @ Sep 29 2014, 07:33 AM) *

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif) Those pumps are supposed to have a break away handle. How the hell did he manage to do that? Seriously something else had to have happened there.(IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)


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post Sep 29 2014, 03:14 PM
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QUOTE(Tom @ Sep 29 2014, 01:57 AM) *

No one ever said you needed smarts to buy one of those, just be filthy rich! Then he leaves it right there by the pumps. Two seconds would have had it away from them before he got out.



Right. risk your life for a hunk of materials......that would take smarts.

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post Sep 29 2014, 07:12 PM
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He hit the dot bots rolling out of the gas station....
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