ffffing diesil spills

[Lawrence]

[quote author=Skinbeatersam link=topic=3437.msg28186#msg28186 date=1339768101]
Should anyone care to know I have done some research . . . .

Interesting, where did you find that?

I've had a look myself and although it says there should be a locking fuel cap, I've not found if there's exemptions for either older vehicles or eg foreign vans etc.

I do know that I've seen a diesel trail running around three quarters of a (very large) roundabout and I don't see how that could have happened without a faulty/ missing cap.
[/quote]I ride into work every day down the A11, from the A12 to the big roundabout type thing at Aldgate, about 3 miles... when it's wet there's almost always a continuous trail (not just spots) of oil/diesel down the road  :\  I don't understand how you can drop that much oil or diesel and not know about it.

[ddtwelve]

its mostly trucks and buses thqat spill where they the driver dont have to pay for the fuel fill up too much overspill on top of tank then when there moving spillage on roundabouts :lol

[peterjca]

I have a hard time understanding these diesel spills. Like Lawrence just said, it's not the odd splashes, but long continuous wide trails of the stuff down straight roads (not a roundabout in sight) that you can only avoid by riding at the very edge of the road or riding on the wrong side of the road.

This "type" of spillage seems to be far more common these days.

What's going on? I just don't get it!

[Grahamm]

when you find a spill report it to the local council

If it's in a position where it's going to be hazardous to someone (ie a biker could come off on it) I have no qualms about phoning 999 and telling the Police as I've done when I saw a spill around three-quarters of a roundabout down here in Portsmouth.

By the time I went back that way (about an hour later) it had been cleaned up, something which I doubt would have happened had I phoned the Council...

[robby boy]

I have a hard time understanding these diesel spills. Like Lawrence just said, it's not the odd splashes, but long continuous wide trails of the stuff down straight roads (not a roundabout in sight) that you can only avoid by riding at the very edge of the road or riding on the wrong side of the road.

This "type" of spillage seems to be far more common these days.

What's going on? I just don't get it!

To add my tuppence ha'penny worth to this, a lot of modern diesel cars use the HDI engines, they have a fuel pump in the tank which feeds the rail system in the engine bay, if anything goes wrong in the fuel system eg leaking pipe or poorly fitted filter this pump forces the fuel out under pressure and drops a lot more fuel than the old lift pump on the engine system.