McLizbae:
Oh Yes! Only one hilarious time though, and that was when I picked my present car from the dealer after the deal was sealed.

With the Light on and the Guage completely down, I saw it quite clearly that there was no fuel in the newly acquired car. However, what I didn't believe was that the car won't even drive to the nearest filling station which (I am certain) was not up to 2km from the dealers outlet. Few meters after driving out of the dealer's shop and the car went mum on me. Within a moment alot run roughly through my mind. I called the dealer and he told me without hesitation that it must be fuel! Then somethings I saw at dealers flash through: one of the dealers boy use 4L keg to pour some fuel inside one of the big corolla cars in their garage just to drive it out. He also keep the remaining fuel beside him at the passenger side. That in case the car start jerking on him on the road, he will give a little bit fuel again.

I quickly beg for a keg around since I was very close to the filling station, bought some fuel and pour in the car. Na so car start again o!

Then I learn 2 things:
1. Dealers don't fuel cars. When I call the dealer again, he told me that's how it is done, that no dealer fuels a car displayed for sale at the dealership on one hand for economic reasons (them nor wan buy fuel for new car owner) and on another hand for security reasons (if by any means thief Wan steal car, he nor go go far before car go stop). This practice will how ever kill the fuel pump and the entire powertrain of a vehicle.

2. Due to no 1., check duty papers and go for the car that hasn't stay long with the dealer. There you may have a fuel pump that is still in good health

Fuel pump for big cars (esp 2010 upwards) dey very expensive too!

Jokerman:
Fan belt cut was the worse thing to ever happen to me, but thank God it happened just after the third mainland bridge at Berger bus stop...😬

I thought it was gas out, till I got a mechanic 😂

Judolisco:
my bro na 5k oh... Make God help us.. D bolt sef Don tire me... How u dey run am na... Because if I buy 5k now I trip e don dey show fuel light

nymphomaniac:
This is why your fuel gauge and brain must be working

JoeEeL:
Please who has any confirmed updates on the latest in Sepeteri, Oyo state?

2006 thread making front page. If fulani herdsmen don kill this OP since 2010 na, how we wan take know? We know NL is quite old but is that the reason you resurrected this prehistoric post?

OlujobaSamuel:

Berger bus stop just after the 3rd mainland bridge?
I sure sey na visit you visit Lagos when the thing happen.
Hope dey no try obtain you sha??

Jokerman:


Lol... Who wan obtain Omo Ekó.... Emi gan I be obtainer igboro🤣...

Berger bus stop before Olopomeji bus stop at Iyana oworo axis...

Ndipe:
Ok, it has never happened to me, before, but I have come very close to running out of gas. Once, while driving home I realized that I was running low on gas. It was in the evening and the nearest gas station, was miles away. I kept praying that I would make it to the gas station, and miraculously, I arrived at the gas station and filled my tank.

Earlier on when I lived in Nigeria, as a kid, my father's chauffeur was taking us back to Calabar, after spending the weekend in the village. Guess what? He ran out of gas on the highway, much to the anger of my father. He rushed to the gas station and came back with a container filled with petrol. I just brushed off the incident.

At another time, while going for a job interview that did not materialize, I had a flat tire. While I was pacing up and down the side of the freeway, trying to place a call to my insurance company /9-11 for assistance, another fellow pulled right behind me and told me that he had ran out of gas. His story was typical, finances played a major role, so in exchange for changing my tires, I offered him a ride to the gas station. Still, on my way to school again, I witnessed a scene where a man was filling his tank with gas, just off the freeway.

I inquired from my coworkers about their experience and two told me that they had in the past. Worse of it all is when you are flying. How can one be so sure that the plane they are flying in has a tank full of gas? Ethel Kennedy (widow of Robert Kennedy) lost her parents in a plane crash, because the plane had ran out of gas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Skakel_Kennedy)

So your experiences please? How about those living in the USA? What would be your reaction if someone ran out gas here? Would you lay blame on them for failing to take advantage of the plethora of gas stations, in close promixity to one another in the spirit of capitalism, or would you chalk it up to the frailties of humans?

AntiIncognito:
I be commercial driver, we dey run am on a steady

When fuel was 500 naira per litre, 5k fuel will take me and my passenger to our destination.. now fuel is 650, we go still buy 5k fuel hoping that by one kind Miracle e go carry us reach..

We dey risk am.

dominique:
Its been long, about five years ago thereabouts. I had touched some places and had it at the back of my mind to fuel the car on my way home as the guage was already on empty only the car to stop as I got a few meters into the filling station. The attendants helped me push it a few more meters to where the closest fuel pump could reach it and I refuelled. That was when I got to know that cars don't start immediately after refueling, you need to let the fuel circulate properly. That freelander showed me premium shege before we threw it away

Chokehold:
FreeStuffsNG and other agbadorians will be familiar with this question.

VikingKing:


Does he even own a wheel talkmore of a car?