Charging $ 1,500 is excessive. From what little of the bill I can see, they replaced the fuel pressure regulator, changed the engine oil + other stuf. In the short term, water in gas will not affect fuel system parts and not contaminate the oil. They charged him $ 150.00 for an oil change.
Can't tell people what and what not to spend their money, if the gas station owner wants to keep playing games let him dump his money on lawsuits and settlements
lol they don't do it on purpose. they don't upkeep their tank. they are still liable for the damages but I guarantee those tanks are messed up and the station was to cheap to fix it. That's why you never fill up when the fuel truck is there as the water on gas sits at the top.
that basted sure pay every penny if she has to pay over $3000+ of repairs the owner must pay $9000 to her & others same thing double or triple the cost
Same thing happened to me several years ago at a Shell gas station near my home. Same as this gentleman, I rarely went there but on that day I went my Jeep started sputtering and kept stalling. I called the station and I asked the lady who answered "Have you guys had any reports of bad gasoline?" and she said "Hold on....(yelling in the background) We got another one!" and then the manager came to the phone and said yes water was in the tanks. I had to have it flushed and kept the gas/water mixture as well. At least they acknowledged and paid for it.
@@RacoonT.V You do understand USTs are heavily regulated and change of ownership won't change anything. Think of someone buying a stolen car. regardless of who owns the car now. The new owner has to pay. In some states the law states that if the store hasn't dispensed any fuel in a year or is abandoned, all fuel tanks, their piping, etc has to be removed by the current property owner.
@@Chilo-i1dyeah playing by American rules… why do we always have to try and make it seem like other people doing bad stuff here and not our own citizens taking advantage of each other? No other nationalities or people from other ethnic backgrounds own gas stations now?
I think all states need to require these laws to check the gas pumps to make sure they have what’s supposed to be in there and not stuff like water that’s damaging peoples cars and their wallets.
@@daviddillardjohnson9137 Lets see, fills up the car there, finds water in tank. Goes back to the station to complain, eventually leads to the discovery of water in their storage tanks. Seems pretty clear cut to me SMH. What do you need, the owner to slap you in the face and yell "IT WAS ME, I DID IT"?
Not to mention the clerk "didn't know" they weren't allowed to dispense the watery fuel. Likely didn't know there was an issue in the first place. Many convenience stores have defunct gas pumps.
This happened to two of my cars after using gas at a Valero in Texas. I didn’t know what happened until well after the fact. My vehicle had been well maintained but it was old so I thought it was just a mechanical failure. I wish I had known at the time it was the bad gas. Be leery of using gas stations out of your way. Our vehicles can be fickle and bad gas doesn’t help. I’m glad this gentleman held them accountable.
@@charliekelly735 July 2023 Street View from South Ave shows it covered up like the news footage. May 2019 it's uncovered. September 2011 it was unbranded. In September 2007 it was a Marathon.
Same thing happened to my husband’s Chrysler Town N Country minivan!!! From Coscos gas!! He had to spend $700 for new fuel pump! Thank the good Lord we had the money to have it fixed!
How do I get the good lord to also give me money? Maybe you could give me your money in name of the lord, he just told me that I am struggling more than you and that to be saved you'd need to give it to me. Amen, praise Jesus.
@@markaddison4642huh? If it was black owned, they would’ve sent habitat for humanity in to replace the whole gas station for free. Now if it was white owned, they would’ve had to close up that day.
Yeah and they are probably all in the 3 states that have no legal gas quality mandates because certain legislators hate regulation. Guess the free market has to solve this one.
Never, EVER go to a station that has the mid grade and premium "Tapped" off. Especially, if you are the first guy filling up a Mercedes that requires premium fuel.
@@sebastian-gz2fr It's not clean or dirty, it's about octane content. High performance engines need more octane to work properly. My car calls for 87 octane so that's what I buy. Anything more would be burning money.
Beware of some of those oil change shops. I had an oil changed at an oil change shop in Dallas. Drove about 2 miles home and checked the oil level. The oil level was correct but the oil looked like it had been in my car for months. I went back to the oil change shop and the owner said they use quality oil. Not wanting to damage my car I took it to the dealership where I purchased the car. I asked for a sample of the replaced oil. They brought back a sample of the oil that was inside my engine and the service tech said my oil had not been changed for a very long time and that I should get my oil changed more regularly. The tech was amazed when I told her the oil had been inside my car for less than two hours. Beware!
Nobody should go to these quick lube shop, it's asking for trouble. I bought a car ramp and an oil drain pan, do my own oil change. I know the job is well done and i'm saving money. It's one of the easiest maintenance anybody can do. The perfect gateway job into becoming your own mechanic.
As a rule of thumb, if I go to any gas station and I notice a general state of disrepair or old/not working equipment, I have serious doubts if the underground fuel storage tanks are in a better shape and therefore will not purchase gas from there.
@@bobroberts2371 yeah he could have drained his own gas and added some seafoam and been fine, but at the same time, i'm all for a huge over inflated bill going to the owner of the gas station
@@phat-kid That is beyond a huge bill, the Range Rover was $ 3,500 and the bill has 3 lines of work performed. Note that it is fraud for you to push the bill and some day YOU will be on the other end of an issue. An issue like you " bumping " into another car in a parking lot and the other person going after and getting your $ 100,000 personal injury insurance. I helped someone through this ordeal so I effectively have first hand information. It took about a year to clear things up and the person I was helping still worries that they are going to be sued and be living on the street.
@@Seri-Katil Used to gas with them back in 2005 because it was local to me next block and never had a problem with them but now I don't trust a certain location because they caught my debit card info. Use cash
@@Crazzzycarrot-qo5wr not sure what you're arguing, but OP and @TheSikadelik are both correct. It's odd to mention just the dude when both the woman and guy had their car damaged.
Never go to a second hand gas station or even a family owned single gas station! They probably won't follow all the rules! And imagine how many cars broke down not knowing it was the water in the gas!!! So many crooks in this world! Such a shame!
As someone that works at a gas station and had this happen recently in the town i work in, at a different gas station.... this is actually pretty common when companies dont take care of their holding tanks. Leaks happen and with the crazy weather we've had nationwide...... this will continue to happen more often. The company i work at, is constantly checking their tanks, their pumps, programming systems, etc. But we sadly have many that dont.
As a mechanic, I can tell you the charges for those repairs are a scam. A majority of the repair is dropping the fuel tank to get the water out and cleaned, disconnect the fuel lines up front to blow out or flush the lines out with fresh gas and add a fuel system cleaner. Technically no parts needed other than a new seal for the fuel pump to make sure it doesn't leak when reinstalled.
I was thinking the same but I've also never seen a 7:1 ratio of water and gas put in a car before so idk. We had a little once and just ran heet through it and it was fine.
@@diapysik @diapysik I think the biggest thing is making sure the tank is clean and dry so it minimizes the amount of water remaining in the system, especially if that fuel system has a fuel return line. That's a reason i won't work on vehicles that have been sitting a year or two with stale gas. Ethanol gas breaks down and will mess a fuel system up and even damage an engine. it'll start today and be locked up or bend valves the next time you go to start it if it's stale.
I work at a gas station in pa and we have a system that shuts down our gas pumps if there is a large amount of water in the tanks it also prints out water and gas levels in the tanks every 4 hours.
What's supposed to happen after the water is discovered? Is the delivery rescheduled? Is it reported? What's the proper chain of command for this situation?
@@finally97 States have minimum tolerances on the amount of water that is acceptable in a tank. Some states have 0.5" some states have 1.5" of water that is acceptable. These tolerances are also based on the size of the tank. Anything above, fuel has to be stopped from being sold and deliveries are no longer made. A Class C certified person (Usually the store owner/manager or above are Class C) then documents this in their internal log (Which was missing at this station, according to the news report) and call their petro contractor. This Petro contractor will then pump the water out, and check where the water came into the tank from fix that leak. They will also inspect each pump to see if water is in the lines. If there is water in the line, those pumps are purged, filters inside the pump replaced, then purged, then filters are replaced again, signed and dated of when they were replaced. Then the pumps are calibrated to the correct amount of fuel dispensed according to the screen. (If screen says gallon the amount coming out of the nozzle must be a gallon not to the hose). This calibration spot gets a new wire with a metal state seal that has to be broken to be removed (In case someone wants to mess with the calibration) Most gas stations in the city have an electronic tank reader, that monitors the level of fuel and water in each tank. If water is above that tolerance level, they will start beeping loudly. The only ones that I haven't seen them in are local stores in far rural towns.
This happened to me in St. Louis. I and another customer put gas in the car and both cars stalled before leaving the lot. The gas station paid all the charges to fix all the cars that got gas that day. It was inconvenient, but at least they corrected the mistake
As a former tech it does not cost $1,700.00 to flush the engine. You drain the tank and use an external tank/vessel to supply fuel. Run it about 1/2 hour, change the filter and fill it up.
Exactly. I'm a retired mechanic. The real thieves are the mechanics shop that is charging that much. I would have done it all for less than 500. New engine oil, fuel filter, draining the fuel tank.
Im an auto tech and the last time I had a car with water in the fuel tank it was a big headache. I did the usual repairs, drain gas tank, replace fuel filter, clean fuel lines and vehicle didn’t start. The bad fuel ended damaging the fuel pump and the spark plugs. Customer paid over 2k, now I just tell customer that we will have to start by draining gas tank and go from there.
@@iati6294 i mean you could have checked the fuel pump and spark plugs first. that should have been part of the job before you tried to run it with a half assed repair.
ive had this happen once to my car, called the company and they offered to pay for new gas but not the repairs. could never get the check engine light off after that one
I worked at a gas station in the early to mid seventies. Once a week and after every delivery of fuel I would stick the tanks with water finder on the stick to check for water.
@@ISLAMICSTORIES131400 for a repair on a Mercedes is cheap the parts on those cars and labor are insane had an 08 e350 4matic those cars are money pits.
Not necessarily, the tanks temperature, height, weight, volume, and other things are supposed to be regulated, normally by a device, most places use Veeder Root. If they are not monitored this can cause all sort of things to happen, and in this case you got water in the tank.
False. Gas price varies between multiple factors. This one could have charged a premium and you still could have gotten screwed. Point is they should be held liable end of story.
1:49 The bill is $1,425.55 4:12 Her bill is $3,200. I think there is more than one thief in this video. That woman should find a new mechanic and take him to court, too.
If a pump is unserviceable then you simply turn the breaker for that pump off so nobody could use it ''by error''. Simple as that. So the owner knew and is running a scam operation. Shut the place down and sue the owner for all the damages and losses, then put this criminal in jail where he belongs.
Pump systems aren't like that anymore. The pump is below ground in thestorage tank now, has been for over 3 decades. As for the device standing there on the concrete island, yeah, we call it a pump, but only in name. Used to be, each "pump" had its own pump in the bottom compartment, so if you turned on either side, the pump came to life. If 2 hoses were dispensing at a time, it went a bit slower. Now, with the actual pump down in the tank, and it's a higher volume pump, one big pump can feed fuel to several heads at one time. The only power needed at the head, would be to light up any lights in it, run the onboard computer, and serve the network that all the "pumps" are tied to the main kiosk in the building with. So if one "pump" is powered, they're all powered. That's why they put garbage bags over the hose gun to keep people from grabbing and using certain units. That said, I'm not defending these boneheads who have serious water problems in their fuels, I'm just trying to explain roughly how things work in modern filling stations.
PSA i’m a technician in the Houston market. We see this quite often due to all the flooding we have if this ever happens to you soon as the technician discovers water and the fuel tank stop call your insurance and file a claim insurance will pay for the damages then insurance will sue the gas station, also what I tell my customers buy gas from the same station all the time unless you were traveling it makes it much easier to prove if you ever have an issue like this.
I'm an Army veteran and receipt/distributing fuel was part of my job. A dirty little secret that gas companies don't want you to know about is the delivery trucks DO NOT have filtering systems. About 1/4 of what they have in their trucks is WATER. B-12 Chemtool will remove water from your fuel tank, it should be regularly added to your fuel tank NO MATTER where you get fuel. The filters on the pumps at your local gas station are only meant to trap SOLIDS, not water.
Tanks have water in them more often than you think. In fact, sometimes they are filled with water to keep them from floating out of the ground during installation if there's a lot of rain. They pump it out before the first filling. But it can get in again later from rain if there's a leak in a vent tube underground or a damaged fill tube seal or cap. I've even seen a split brass ring on top of the fill tube. Even if the electronic monitoring system fails, there's no excuse for failure to pump the water out of a tank. They have measuring sticks and water detection paste for use to determine the level of water in a tank.
Had a gas station once accidentally put diesel fuel in a gasoline tank. Then when it did a $1,000 of damage to my car refuse to admit their mistake. They even had swapped the receipt to say diesel to cover their F up, but forgot that diesel filling handles are larger and can't be fit into a gasoline downspout. I went back to the station, and showed the pump showed "Gas", but the receipt showed "Diesel" into a gas can. That won my lawsuit, but it should have never gotten to that point.
I worked for 3 years at a gas station and I had to check the tanks for water EVERY SHIFT EVERY SHIFT IS SUPPOSED TO STICK THE TANKS WITH THE WATER DETECTION GEL ON THE STICK. They are not doing what is required These tanks are leaking into the ground
Water,being heavier than gas collects on bottom of tank, common situation with gas stations. If they just had a dump of fuel from a tanker that will stir up what's in the tank. Someone pumping gas into their automobile will likely get water. That's why I don't get gas if there is a fuel tanker on the driveway, learned that 50 years ago at sun oil company in Detroit. (Dealer management school.
That is SO much water!! Water not only wont burn (obviously), it can also ruin the whole fuel system. Fuel pump, injectors, and anything else that touches fuel may be damaged. The fuel tank may even need to be removed to properly be cleaned out at times.
This has happened to me multiple times after filling up getting down the road and the vehicle dies.Never pump gas when you see the tanker truck at a gas station because they stir up all the water at the bottom of their tanks.Years ago we had to stick the tanks at the station every night and check the level and see how much water was at the bottom.
Despot this word or term isn’t commonly used in my region ( Washington State) but it should be . Exactly what’s happening here ! Despot corrupt business practices. Sad but very true.
Station did this to me. Trying to climb the grade, I thought my car was going to blow up. Luckily, I knew and got some fresh fuel and water removing additive. 💙 T.E.N.
To get that much water in the underground tanks at the gas station, either the tanks are rotted out and have holes in them allowing surface water to leak in, or the owner is literally filling the fuel tanks with water to make more money!
Usually gas stations only have 4 tanks, 3 for each octane level and 1 for diesel. The 3 tanks containing gas feed gas to all of the pumping stations which means that if water was say, in the 83 octane tank all of the pumps would have been pumping out bad 83 octane gas not just the two that had bags on them. It's hard to believe that out of all the people who got gas there only two ended up with water.
Give all those folks their repair cost or loss compensation of thier vehicle this is a class action suit for all those attorneys general office for all of them. Unacceptable
Back in 2010 I worked for a company that installed large 15 thousand gallon tanks in the ground for Kiki Fill, Country Fair, Sheetz and some Gulf gas stations. We had to to a survey of every Kwik Fill gas Station in New York State. Every tank we checked with water paste on the stick had a minimum of 2 inches of water at the bottom of each tank up to 5 inches at some. Now when you install a tank in the ground you set the pump at least 4 inches from the bottom of the tank. So every time you turn that gas pump on the failure car up you’re getting the water first. Quick Fill was so mad at our company because every single one of them failed none of them, updated their tanks or had them serviced. Water was just seeping into them. That’s why I don’t go to no old gas stations or any QuickFill gas stations.
@@salma_Nella22 Shell, Chevron, Exxon. The big names. You may have other big names depending on where you live but stay away from the smaller junkie ones
The gas station should be liable for the damages and closed
The owner is liable.
By the looks of that station it's on it's way to close.
Charging $ 1,500 is excessive. From what little of the bill I can see, they replaced the fuel pressure regulator, changed the engine oil + other stuf. In the short term, water in gas will not affect fuel system parts and not contaminate the oil. They charged him $ 150.00 for an oil change.
Can't tell people what and what not to spend their money, if the gas station owner wants to keep playing games let him dump his money on lawsuits and settlements
Black gas matters
The boss ran a scam and used the clerk as a fall guy.
Exactly! They do this and scim off the the gallons they give you too!
Yup, the oldest trick in the book. Garden hose in the tank
The owner is still responsible.
@@Cybersawz no the owner of the store is responsible for selling false goods
lol they don't do it on purpose. they don't upkeep their tank. they are still liable for the damages but I guarantee those tanks are messed up and the station was to cheap to fix it. That's why you never fill up when the fuel truck is there as the water on gas sits at the top.
Owners should not be allowed to own a station again .
that basted sure pay every penny if she has to pay over $3000+ of repairs the owner must pay $9000 to her & others same thing double or triple the cost
@havok9001 Also court fees.
A Black neighborhood, VALERO shut down that station, Mohammad opened it back up. I LOVE AMERICA!
Shouldn’t own any business after that. If you are scamming people with tainted gasoline, there are no limits.
@@ToVisitOctober it happens lots of places, just fix the problem
The fact that the licensing board allowed this gas station to continue to operate is wild. Someone needs to be held accountable.
Lol our system is a failure...
Same thing happened to me several years ago at a Shell gas station near my home. Same as this gentleman, I rarely went there but on that day I went my Jeep started sputtering and kept stalling. I called the station and I asked the lady who answered "Have you guys had any reports of bad gasoline?" and she said "Hold on....(yelling in the background) We got another one!" and then the manager came to the phone and said yes water was in the tanks. I had to have it flushed and kept the gas/water mixture as well. At least they acknowledged and paid for it.
lol, we got another one!!
Don’t worry, the owner will pass the business to his brother and it’s “Under New Management “ and now they can continue to scam 😂
When you see a “new ownership” sign, that’s what it means! 😂
They can only do that for inside business. These violations are tied to the property parcel. State EPA doesn't care who the owner is.
@@AwaisQadri1easy release the property to a new owner old violations from the old lease won’t matter
And no doubt it's Indian owned
@@RacoonT.V You do understand USTs are heavily regulated and change of ownership won't change anything.
Think of someone buying a stolen car. regardless of who owns the car now. The new owner has to pay.
In some states the law states that if the store hasn't dispensed any fuel in a year or is abandoned, all fuel tanks, their piping, etc has to be removed by the current property owner.
That station owner knows EXACTLY what happened. Put that GRIFTER out of business!!!
Probably some Indian dude from india
@@Chilo-i1d
You took the words right out of my mouth.
Patel is going down 😂
AND THE COUNTY! WHOM KNEW THEY WERE BEYOND UNCOMPLIANT, THEY ARE COMPLICIT AS WELL. GET ALL OF THEIR CRIMINAL ASSOCIATES
@@Chilo-i1dyeah playing by American rules… why do we always have to try and make it seem like other people doing bad stuff here and not our own citizens taking advantage of each other? No other nationalities or people from other ethnic backgrounds own gas stations now?
That ain't a gas station, it's a WATER STATION!!!
It looks more like a front for selling less than legal items, just like the gas.
Lol good one 😂😂
Cleaner emissions !!! Going green !!!
haha lol
And burger king and McDonald's is a _________?
Destruction of private property should be be a crime.
It is
it is weirdo
It's a felony if it's over 5000$
What about a lawsuit for the destruction of private property?
@@okamijubei That would be a "class action lawsuit".
I think all states need to require these laws to check the gas pumps to make sure they have what’s supposed to be in there and not stuff like water that’s damaging peoples cars and their wallets.
This guy is absolutely correct. That bill to flush out the entire fuel system should be paid by the gas company!
How can you prove the water came from that gas station
@@daviddillardjohnson9137 Where else did they get the gas from, if not, the gas station.
@@Huskiefluff figure it out
@@daviddillardjohnson9137daaaaaaaaaaaaaaa when it happens more than once
@@daviddillardjohnson9137 Lets see, fills up the car there, finds water in tank. Goes back to the station to complain, eventually leads to the discovery of water in their storage tanks. Seems pretty clear cut to me SMH. What do you need, the owner to slap you in the face and yell "IT WAS ME, I DID IT"?
2:17 "Hold on a minute, let me call this motherf*er"
Wasn't expecting that... 🤣🤣
Right! haha
Americans..
😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@iv4nGG I'm proud to be American.
Umm hello!!! If its been cited multiple times and not functioning SHUT THEM DOWN.
There's no regulation for gas stations in that state
Not to mention the clerk "didn't know" they weren't allowed to dispense the watery fuel. Likely didn't know there was an issue in the first place.
Many convenience stores have defunct gas pumps.
Some places in the US are already the FOURTH world 🤦♂️🥳😂
4:16 they are not going to be held “reliable”. If that was the case your car would be working. 😂
CLOSED THE GAS STATION DOWN
This happened to two of my cars after using gas at a Valero in Texas. I didn’t know what happened until well after the fact. My vehicle had been well maintained but it was old so I thought it was just a mechanical failure. I wish I had known at the time it was the bad gas. Be leery of using gas stations out of your way. Our vehicles can be fickle and bad gas doesn’t help. I’m glad this gentleman held them accountable.
That has to be the jankiest looking gas station in existence.
Right
Oh there has to be alot of them all over the country, especially in the “hood”. There’s a more than a few of them where I reside
I’ve seen worse
I seen far worse, you must not get out much
Especially with the price of gas, no reason they can't afford to fix their equipment
2:19 "She said hold on a minute, let me call this mother#&@-- beep, and let him know nobody told me about that pump"
🤣
@@tammyn18 can you tell what race she is
@@waitwhat3353Human.
@waitwhat3353 what race is that?
Sounds like a nice neighborhood lmao
I automatically wouldn’t trust any gas from any station where the logos are taped over with no new logo to identify WHO I’m buying it from.
Facts
flex tape can't fix this
For real.
They might've done that after his story went public but before this station reported on it
@@charliekelly735 July 2023 Street View from South Ave shows it covered up like the news footage. May 2019 it's uncovered. September 2011 it was unbranded. In September 2007 it was a Marathon.
Same thing happened to my husband’s Chrysler Town N Country minivan!!! From Coscos gas!! He had to spend $700 for new fuel pump! Thank the good Lord we had the money to have it fixed!
How do I get the good lord to also give me money? Maybe you could give me your money in name of the lord, he just told me that I am struggling more than you and that to be saved you'd need to give it to me. Amen, praise Jesus.
why don't they shut that place down.
Who is "they" and why do you think our government cares about us, when they clearly dont
So why didn't they shut the station down immediately???????????
There is no state law that regulates gas quality as she said in the last 30 seconds or so of the video
It wasn't a black business.
@@markaddison4642huh? If it was black owned, they would’ve sent habitat for humanity in to replace the whole gas station for free. Now if it was white owned, they would’ve had to close up that day.
@@markaddison4642 prolly Arab
@@evanbrad7327I'm sure someone white gave them the opportunity.
They block out the Valero sign not expecting ppl to know it's valero 😂
So Arco & Valero never again.
They didn't even block out all the signs lol. You got a clear one on a separate gas pump next to it.
There are several gas stations I don't go to...Valero is one of them.
@@buttarain27 They destroyed my 89' Maxim yrs ago. It always wondered why it never knocked on Cheveron.
ive bought bad gas from valero countless times
This is more common than you think. A lot of gas stations across the US are selling bad gas.
It happens in Mexico too and now the gas is more expensive in Mexico
Facts
Taco bell 🔔
Its going on in Europe as well, we seen people pour water into gas tanks, by order of higher up. Nothing new
Yeah and they are probably all in the 3 states that have no legal gas quality mandates because certain legislators hate regulation. Guess the free market has to solve this one.
Shout-out to the journalists for doing this work.
Melissa Andrews the one in the yellow with the TD's
Never, EVER go to a station that has the mid grade and premium "Tapped" off. Especially, if you are the first guy filling up a Mercedes that requires premium fuel.
Agreed, for certain cars you can only use premium gas.
i uset to own a mercedes and yes i used premium too, im assuming using fine quality gasoline lets the mercedes runs fine instead of dirty gas?
@@sebastian-gz2fr It's not clean or dirty, it's about octane content. High performance engines need more octane to work properly.
My car calls for 87 octane so that's what I buy. Anything more would be burning money.
Beware of some of those oil change shops. I had an oil changed at an oil change shop in Dallas. Drove about 2 miles home and checked the oil level. The oil level was correct but the oil looked like it had been in my car for months. I went back to the oil change shop and the owner said they use quality oil. Not wanting to damage my car I took it to the dealership where I purchased the car. I asked for a sample of the replaced oil. They brought back a sample of the oil that was inside my engine and the service tech said my oil had not been changed for a very long time and that I should get my oil changed more regularly. The tech was amazed when I told her the oil had been inside my car for less than two hours. Beware!
I hope you reported them to the BBB & reported them to the AG to the Fraud Department of your state.
Name of the shop in Dallas?
@@byrd7633 Do to legality, will not name but they're located throughout the entire county.
Nobody should go to these quick lube shop, it's asking for trouble. I bought a car ramp and an oil drain pan, do my own oil change. I know the job is well done and i'm saving money. It's one of the easiest maintenance anybody can do. The perfect gateway job into becoming your own mechanic.
most quick lube shops that offer super cheap oil change prices simply filter out the old oil and pump it back into cars!
As a rule of thumb, if I go to any gas station and I notice a general state of disrepair or old/not working equipment, I have serious doubts if the underground fuel storage tanks are in a better shape and therefore will not purchase gas from there.
Great point but why am I the only one who likes this?😂
Never would have occurred to me to be around janky gas stations
Same. I stick with the modern well kept ones. But I also don't live in an inner city with few choices. A lot of inner city gas stations are old.
Ten violations and still open. This is why I don't trust gas stations especially premium.
I used to haul fuel and sometimes 87 would get dropped into 91 tanks due to poor labeling. Some station owners could care less.
Someone is getting a lot of kickbacks
@@charkswitlazers Expensive to fix turbos and luxury cars that require premium gas.
My car takes 89
Not 91, not 87
@@brandonfoley7519 then put 91 in it and call it a day
Hope that lady finds them reliable in court
Same here in NC at an Exxon station, gas contained 75% water. Some cars barely got out of the parking lot.
Pay that man
The shop padded the bill, there is no way it should be $ 1,500. The oil change was $ 150 and not needed if there was water in the gas.
@@bobroberts2371yea, that whole town is shifty…..
@@bobroberts2371 yeah he could have drained his own gas and added some seafoam and been fine, but at the same time, i'm all for a huge over inflated bill going to the owner of the gas station
@@phat-kid That is beyond a huge bill, the Range Rover was $ 3,500 and the bill has 3 lines of work performed.
Note that it is fraud for you to push the bill and some day YOU will be on the other end of an issue.
An issue like you " bumping " into another car in a parking lot and the other person going after and getting your $ 100,000 personal injury insurance. I helped someone through this ordeal so I effectively have first hand information. It took about a year to clear things up and the person I was helping still worries that they are going to be sued and be living on the street.
They need to close that station down until they come to their senses and fix these issues
That part.
Just boycott Valero all together
@@Seri-Katil Used to gas with them back in 2005 because it was local to me next block and never had a problem with them but now I don't trust a certain location because they caught my debit card info. Use cash
Are you even in your senses??
@@Bdubs007 Bye Troll.
As a real Toledo the city needs to shut down the gas station.
You’re a real Toledo? lol
@@BMarie774 It's in my DNA.
. LMAO, ok guy
This country town needs to be shut down...PERIOD!!!
Shady business owner needs to be held accountable....
owner is listed as yazeen qaimari
That's insane how there's only 1 hose outlet for 3 different types of gas. Is that common in the U.S?
Yes that's the normal way at most gas stations here in the US one handle for all three gas in Ford diesel sometime it be a separate gas pump
Ohio being 1 of only 3 states not testing MAKES TOTAL SENSE.
ohio is one of THOSE states
FREEDOM!! MAGA2024 AND BEYOND!!!
When I heard they reporter say that I was like WHAT
So, who are the other two states? Would've been nice to include that info.
Same thing happened in cincy at a immigrant ran Sunoco
give this man a brand new CAR
Did I miss something? Wasn't that a woman? 😂
@@TheSikadelik Did you skip the first part of the video?
@@Crazzzycarrot-qo5wrthere were two people, so they're both correct
@@88pts No, since first comment obviously meant the dude. So yes they did miss something.
@@Crazzzycarrot-qo5wr not sure what you're arguing, but OP and @TheSikadelik are both correct. It's odd to mention just the dude when both the woman and guy had their car damaged.
Never go to a second hand gas station or even a family owned single gas station! They probably won't follow all the rules! And imagine how many cars broke down not knowing it was the water in the gas!!! So many crooks in this world! Such a shame!
As a fellow security officer thanks for your service.
As someone that works at a gas station and had this happen recently in the town i work in, at a different gas station.... this is actually pretty common when companies dont take care of their holding tanks. Leaks happen and with the crazy weather we've had nationwide...... this will continue to happen more often. The company i work at, is constantly checking their tanks, their pumps, programming systems, etc. But we sadly have many that dont.
I almost p*** myself @2:23 in the video... "Hold on a minute - let me call this mofo" 😂😂😂I'm dead!!!😂😂😂
😁😂
Willie 😅
2:13 if you're not throwing me under the bus was a person
one of 3 states!!!!!! this is rediculous, change the law NOW!
@oasisnova They’ve tried, but every time it fails to pass citing either “unnecessary regulation” or “state government overreach”.
It’s Ohio man a 💩red state
@@stanford-nf4jk So, "because republicans" then.
You would think that a government who has a party that gerrymandered districts...they could get stuff like this passed. Who stalled it?
Little Weasel DeWine is more worried about transgenders !
As a mechanic, I can tell you the charges for those repairs are a scam. A majority of the repair is dropping the fuel tank to get the water out and cleaned, disconnect the fuel lines up front to blow out or flush the lines out with fresh gas and add a fuel system cleaner. Technically no parts needed other than a new seal for the fuel pump to make sure it doesn't leak when reinstalled.
Mbz dumb@
I was thinking the same but I've also never seen a 7:1 ratio of water and gas put in a car before so idk. We had a little once and just ran heet through it and it was fine.
@@diapysik @diapysik I think the biggest thing is making sure the tank is clean and dry so it minimizes the amount of water remaining in the system, especially if that fuel system has a fuel return line. That's a reason i won't work on vehicles that have been sitting a year or two with stale gas. Ethanol gas breaks down and will mess a fuel system up and even damage an engine. it'll start today and be locked up or bend valves the next time you go to start it if it's stale.
@@williammiddlebrooks9954 wish I knew all about cars, to keep problems away and keep from getting ripped off
I was wondering why that charge was so effing high.
That same thing happened 2 my friend 5 yrs ago FAST fuel in Rockford Illinois on
N main st ..water in tanks under parking lot
I work at a gas station in pa and we have a system that shuts down our gas pumps if there is a large amount of water in the tanks it also prints out water and gas levels in the tanks every 4 hours.
PLEASE! Can we please get an interview with the station attendant?
I may have a new hero.
🤣
This is the third time that I specifically heard about that company having water in their gas, even where I live and I live in Philadelphia
I was a tanker truck driver and I would check for water if the tank had moved in than 3 inches of water we would not deliver the gas
Bingo, we are supposed to stick the tank every time before dropping.
Yes but most drivers wont have water paste or even pump the rain water out of the spill buckets
What's supposed to happen after the water is discovered? Is the delivery rescheduled? Is it reported? What's the proper chain of command for this situation?
@@finally97 States have minimum tolerances on the amount of water that is acceptable in a tank. Some states have 0.5" some states have 1.5" of water that is acceptable. These tolerances are also based on the size of the tank. Anything above, fuel has to be stopped from being sold and deliveries are no longer made.
A Class C certified person (Usually the store owner/manager or above are Class C) then documents this in their internal log (Which was missing at this station, according to the news report) and call their petro contractor. This Petro contractor will then pump the water out, and check where the water came into the tank from fix that leak.
They will also inspect each pump to see if water is in the lines. If there is water in the line, those pumps are purged, filters inside the pump replaced, then purged, then filters are replaced again, signed and dated of when they were replaced. Then the pumps are calibrated to the correct amount of fuel dispensed according to the screen. (If screen says gallon the amount coming out of the nozzle must be a gallon not to the hose). This calibration spot gets a new wire with a metal state seal that has to be broken to be removed (In case someone wants to mess with the calibration)
Most gas stations in the city have an electronic tank reader, that monitors the level of fuel and water in each tank. If water is above that tolerance level, they will start beeping loudly. The only ones that I haven't seen them in are local stores in far rural towns.
3" is pretty generous. That's a lot of water.
This happened to me in St. Louis. I and another customer put gas in the car and both cars stalled before leaving the lot. The gas station paid all the charges to fix all the cars that got gas that day. It was inconvenient, but at least they corrected the mistake
We truly roll dice when buying fuel for our vehicles.
Only when shopping at gas station that look like this
That gas station looks like a dump.
I don't fill my tank from places like that, now I know why.
First of all the blacked out Velero sign should have been a clue that that gas was trash.
Dead giveaway the whole place is.
If the guy can’t keep his brand license he’s screwed.
As a former tech it does not cost $1,700.00 to flush the engine. You drain the tank and use an external tank/vessel to supply fuel. Run it about 1/2 hour, change the filter and fill it up.
That was the real crime. Lol
Exactly. I'm a retired mechanic. The real thieves are the mechanics shop that is charging that much. I would have done it all for less than 500. New engine oil, fuel filter, draining the fuel tank.
Im an auto tech and the last time I had a car with water in the fuel tank it was a big headache. I did the usual repairs, drain gas tank, replace fuel filter, clean fuel lines and vehicle didn’t start. The bad fuel ended damaging the fuel pump and the spark plugs. Customer paid over 2k, now I just tell customer that we will have to start by draining gas tank and go from there.
@@iati6294 i mean you could have checked the fuel pump and spark plugs first. that should have been part of the job before you tried to run it with a half assed repair.
Them to be held reliability lol 🤣
ive had this happen once to my car, called the company and they offered to pay for new gas but not the repairs. could never get the check engine light off after that one
Wow, shut them down! No good. They better reimburse him.🤬
The efforts "stalled"
I worked at a gas station in the early to mid seventies. Once a week and after every delivery of fuel I would stick the tanks with water finder on the stick to check for water.
Ever find any?
Yep did the same in the 80s never saw anything over a half inch on the stick
Whatever happens, they won’t be held “reliable”. 😅
@user-ew6jy9mo4r I felt second hand cringe when she said that. 🤦🏽♂️
@@stanford-nf4jk. Me too!
🚨 Grammar police🚨
Everyone zip your lips up.
I agree though... It was cringe😬
They should have never cut that pump ⛽ on to begin with.
So every inspection agency (that bills the taxpayers) knew about the problems and they were operating anyhow? Ridiculous
the names of the officials who stalled the fuel quality bill should be made public.
He got robbed by the mechanic too!
correct
lol i came to say this but its a mercedes so maybe he went to an expensive mechanic?
Same thing i was thinking 🛑
Freaking unbelievable bill. I have had bad gas several times, and the largest cost was refilling the tank.$1400?
@@ISLAMICSTORIES131400 for a repair on a Mercedes is cheap the parts on those cars and labor are insane had an 08 e350 4matic those cars are money pits.
If water is leaking in, gas is leaking out,
Not necessarily, the tanks temperature, height, weight, volume, and other things are supposed to be regulated, normally by a device, most places use Veeder Root. If they are not monitored this can cause all sort of things to happen, and in this case you got water in the tank.
@@andorastorm1000 Yes intelligence! Half these comments have never even pumped their own gas-LOL
@@kurtdowney1489 I believe it's NJ and OR that have state laws where only an attendant can pump the gas.
@RockFan89 Funny thing is when i travel, most countries have people pumping the gas. You aren't allowed to pump yourself.
@@RockFan89 OR doesn't any longer.
America, the land of the -FREE- FEE
what
And the home of the slave
@@SHEEPLESUCKthere is water in gas in Mexico
There is water in gas in Mexico
There’s fluoride in water
Thats why you should always pay the extra cents and go to top tier gas stations. Avoid all those janky old gas stations.
Facts!
Costco is good
False. Gas price varies between multiple factors. This one could have charged a premium and you still could have gotten screwed. Point is they should be held liable end of story.
1:49 The bill is $1,425.55 4:12 Her bill is $3,200. I think there is more than one thief in this video. That woman should find a new mechanic and take him to court, too.
What a nightmare!
If a pump is unserviceable then you simply turn the breaker for that pump off so nobody could use it ''by error''. Simple as that.
So the owner knew and is running a scam operation. Shut the place down and sue the owner for all the damages and losses, then put this criminal in jail where he belongs.
Pump systems aren't like that anymore. The pump is below ground in thestorage tank now, has been for over 3 decades. As for the device standing there on the concrete island, yeah, we call it a pump, but only in name. Used to be, each "pump" had its own pump in the bottom compartment, so if you turned on either side, the pump came to life. If 2 hoses were dispensing at a time, it went a bit slower. Now, with the actual pump down in the tank, and it's a higher volume pump, one big pump can feed fuel to several heads at one time. The only power needed at the head, would be to light up any lights in it, run the onboard computer, and serve the network that all the "pumps" are tied to the main kiosk in the building with. So if one "pump" is powered, they're all powered. That's why they put garbage bags over the hose gun to keep people from grabbing and using certain units.
That said, I'm not defending these boneheads who have serious water problems in their fuels, I'm just trying to explain roughly how things work in modern filling stations.
Had this same thing happen a few days ago after stopping at a Shell Station. Learned the hard way to always get a receipt.
What state?
@@OrchidKiller Tennessee, Shell Station in Knoxville at East Towne area.
PSA i’m a technician in the Houston market. We see this quite often due to all the flooding we have if this ever happens to you soon as the technician discovers water and the fuel tank stop call your insurance and file a claim insurance will pay for the damages then insurance will sue the gas station, also what I tell my customers buy gas from the same station all the time unless you were traveling it makes it much easier to prove if you ever have an issue like this.
Wait... He never goes there, but he knows which pumps always have a bag on them?
Bring something to put the gas in. She bring a vodka bootle. LOL
😂😂😂😂
😂😂 ☠️
Pretty smart if you don’t have a gas can. Most people have a glass liquor bottle. So it make sense
Know that 🐈 good 🤤
@@donduchiee6923 lmao like how does a bottle got sum to do with her having good 🐱 😂😂
She said she wants them held reliable. I'd say they are very unreliable. 🤣
Glad someone else noticed that lol
I'm an Army veteran and receipt/distributing fuel was part of my job. A dirty little secret that gas companies don't want you to know about is the delivery trucks DO NOT have filtering systems. About 1/4 of what they have in their trucks is WATER. B-12 Chemtool will remove water from your fuel tank, it should be regularly added to your fuel tank NO MATTER where you get fuel. The filters on the pumps at your local gas station are only meant to trap SOLIDS, not water.
Wow. Thank you for this information! How much much of the B-12 Chemtool do I use for a full tank of gas?
A bottle of Heet would also do the trick. @@KellyCompletelyPuzzled
Let me get this right,when I delivered fuel for a living and I delivered 8,000 gallons of 87 2,000 gallons would be water? That makes no sense at all
So if I fill my tank with water, and add B-12, what happens?
I believe this that's why sometimes the gas goes faster than others cause it's just bs
After so many reports you’d think the county would take action.
Tanks have water in them more often than you think. In fact, sometimes they are filled with water to keep them from floating out of the ground during installation if there's a lot of rain. They pump it out before the first filling. But it can get in again later from rain if there's a leak in a vent tube underground or a damaged fill tube seal or cap. I've even seen a split brass ring on top of the fill tube.
Even if the electronic monitoring system fails, there's no excuse for failure to pump the water out of a tank. They have measuring sticks and water detection paste for use to determine the level of water in a tank.
Had a gas station once accidentally put diesel fuel in a gasoline tank. Then when it did a $1,000 of damage to my car refuse to admit their mistake. They even had swapped the receipt to say diesel to cover their F up, but forgot that diesel filling handles are larger and can't be fit into a gasoline downspout. I went back to the station, and showed the pump showed "Gas", but the receipt showed "Diesel" into a gas can. That won my lawsuit, but it should have never gotten to that point.
Good for You, for pursuing that!
Never back down!
They fit a motorcycle just fine. Don't ask how I know. (It wasn't much, burned it out and kept thinning it out)
I worked for 3 years at a gas station and I had to check the tanks for water EVERY SHIFT
EVERY SHIFT IS SUPPOSED TO STICK THE TANKS WITH THE WATER DETECTION GEL ON THE STICK. They are not doing what is required
These tanks are leaking into the ground
Water,being heavier than gas collects on bottom of tank, common situation with gas stations. If they just had a dump of fuel from a tanker that will stir up what's in the tank. Someone pumping gas into their automobile will likely get water. That's why I don't get gas if there is a fuel tanker on the driveway, learned that 50 years ago at sun oil company in Detroit. (Dealer management school.
But they tell people to buy at a station that has fresh gas deliveries. Specific gravity of water and oil very different they don’t mix.
Sue them and make them reimburse you in court!
That is SO much water!! Water not only wont burn (obviously), it can also ruin the whole fuel system. Fuel pump, injectors, and anything else that touches fuel may be damaged. The fuel tank may even need to be removed to properly be cleaned out at times.
Not surprising to hear about a company ripping off the public while at the same time charging them a arm and a leg.
Unrighteousness
Station owner probably has a friend or relative that owns the repair shop down the road lol.
Owner is listed as yazeen qaimari
There's water in every gas station...it ain't just them all over the country
Facts
Willie seems like a believable guy
Omg! Do your job government & shut this place down. This is way out of control.
Great owner, he is most likely hiding everything he owns to not pay.
I never go to Valero. Sorry this happened to you sir!!
Look again, the Valero signs wire masked off,"covered".
whats sucks that if its true that if this can happen at a quiktrip or any random gas station, who knows when it could happen.
This has happened to me multiple times after filling up getting down the road and the vehicle dies.Never pump gas when you see the tanker truck at a gas station because they stir up all the water at the bottom of their tanks.Years ago we had to stick the tanks at the station every night and check the level and see how much water was at the bottom.
"State lawmakers have tried to pass a fuel testing law, but those efforts stalled."
Why did they stall? Was there water in the legislature too?
Those foreign owned gas attendants put skimmers on debit/credit card readers. They need to go to jail
SAD TO SAY THEY BRING THEIR DESPOT CORRUPT WAYS
@@diatribe1194shop white only gas and other white owned places
Despot this word or term isn’t commonly used in my region ( Washington State) but it should be . Exactly what’s happening here ! Despot corrupt business practices. Sad but very true.
Why I carry cash. But unfortunately carrying cash will be a thing of the past. But for now, I carry cash for all purchases.
Why I carry cash. But unfortunately carrying cash will be a thing of the past. But for now, I carry cash for all purchases.
In AZ the Inspectors are out the same day, there’s is no way OH cannot do the same.
Station did this to me. Trying to climb the grade, I thought my car was going to blow up. Luckily, I knew and got some fresh fuel and water removing additive. 💙 T.E.N.
happened to a friend of mine years ago, it was during a cold front and he couldn’t get it started for almost 2 weeks as it froze in his lines and tank
To get that much water in the underground tanks at the gas station, either the tanks are rotted out and have holes in them allowing surface water to leak in, or the owner is literally filling the fuel tanks with water to make more money!
ill take B for 100 lol
Adding water to a storage tank would just lead to trouble. You do know water and gas don’t mix?
Usually gas stations only have 4 tanks, 3 for each octane level and 1 for diesel. The 3 tanks containing gas feed gas to all of the pumping stations which means that if water was say, in the 83 octane tank all of the pumps would have been pumping out bad 83 octane gas not just the two that had bags on them. It's hard to believe that out of all the people who got gas there only two ended up with water.
Must be they filled up, other people just put in a little bit.
Give all those folks their repair cost or loss compensation of thier vehicle this is a class action suit for all those attorneys general office for all of them. Unacceptable
Back in 2010 I worked for a company that installed large 15 thousand gallon tanks in the ground for Kiki Fill, Country Fair, Sheetz and some Gulf gas stations. We had to to a survey of every Kwik Fill gas Station in New York State. Every tank we checked with water paste on the stick had a minimum of 2 inches of water at the bottom of each tank up to 5 inches at some. Now when you install a tank in the ground you set the pump at least 4 inches from the bottom of the tank. So every time you turn that gas pump on the failure car up you’re getting the water first. Quick Fill was so mad at our company because every single one of them failed none of them, updated their tanks or had them serviced. Water was just seeping into them. That’s why I don’t go to no old gas stations or any QuickFill gas stations.
It's a Valero. This is not the only one that does this. Stay away from junk gas stations like this and stick to the good names
What are the good names please? Because I thought shell and Valero were good names
@@salma_Nella22 Shell, Chevron, Exxon. The big names. You may have other big names depending on where you live but stay away from the smaller junkie ones
@@Ayaya-yg5nd thank you
Hmm.. in Florida the state routinely shuts down stations with bad gas. Sounds like you need to fix your laws up there.
Sure they do