Very Very Urgent Petrol Query

dragona

Urgent - my husband is going to run out of fuel at Longford - he is on the N4 coming from Sligo, and all the effing petrol stations are closed.
Does anyone know if there are ant 24hr ones ANYWHERE please


God I forgot to mention he is on his way to Mullingar

seamus

There's a 24 hour petrol station on the N4. If he can hold out till Lucan, there's one about a km before the M50 roundabout (on the other side of the road). Probably not that much use to you, unless you're going to go out and meet him.

muffler

Get him to call one of the local garda stations and they should know.

biko

Try ringing Statoil stations, this is from http://www.statoil.ie/
Or try any the websites for the others for number to stations.

Longford Oil
Sligo Road
Longford
Ph. 043 45782

Mackens Granard
Granard
Co Longford
Ph. 043-86044

Nally Bros
Longford Road
Ballymahon
Co Longford
Ph. 0902-32387

Treanors Garage
Athlone Road
Ballymahon
Co Longford
Ph. 0902-32170

Btw, good luck (and get one of them petrol containers to keep in the boot)

dragona

Thanks a million!

rsta

Did he get sorted??


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SoBe

hamils in mullingar is your only hope.on the main n4 just leaving mullingar.

monkeyfudge

This is a great learning oportunity.

Now I don't drive or know very much about cars but I'd think that it would be a good idea to keep a spare can of petrol in the car in future... Has anyone ever thought of this before?

[nicK]

monkeyfudge wrote:

This is a great learning oportunity.

Now I don't drive or know very much about cars but I'd think that it would be a good idea to keep a spare can of petrol in the car in future... Has anyone ever thought of this before?

genius!

this is the kind of thing that should be instilled in every childs brain... just after learning how to ride a bike..

theCzar

I'm curious though dragona, when your husband rang with this problem did you say, "chill, I'll post a message on a bulletin board for the insomniacs to answer" and then hang up?

Black Swan

monkeyfudge wrote:

This is a great learning oportunity.

Now I don't drive or know very much about cars but I'd think that it would be a good idea to keep a spare can of petrol in the car in future... Has anyone ever thought of this before?

Unless the can is stored somehow safely outside the vehicle (which also poses other problems), I believe there are several potential hazards:

1) Petrol fumes are a health hazard if inhaled (especially over protracted periods).

2) Fumes in a confined space may explode and burn with a spark.

3) A lot of automotive research has been conducted in anticipation of auto crashes, including what happens to stored fuel in a vehicle on impact. For example, the Ford Pinto's fuel tank was defective and exploded on impact injuring and killing people (Ford was sued for millions).

Oh, it does not take much to inflame a car considering what its interior is made of (and which reaches all the way into the boot in most vehicles). Plastics, carpet, insulation, other fabrics, etc., etc. A liter would easily ignite one.

mukki

monkeyfudge wrote:

This is a great learning oportunity.

Now I don't drive or know very much about cars but I'd think that it would be a good idea to keep a spare can of petrol in the car in future... Has anyone ever thought of this before?

all cars come supplied with a built in fuel tank, that holds more then enough to safely get you from one garage to the next. keeping fuel in the car might seem like a good idea, but wait until the day it cooks the skin on your face and hands, ( sounds sore! )

Lump

Blue_Lagoon wrote:

Unless the can is stored somehow safely outside the vehicle (which also poses other problems), I believe there are several potential hazards:

1) Petrol fumes are a health hazard if inhaled (especially over protracted periods).

2) Fumes in a confined space may explode and burn with a spark.

3) A lot of automotive research has been conducted in anticipation of auto crashes, including what happens to stored fuel in a vehicle on impact. For example, the Ford Pinto's fuel tank was defective and exploded on impact injuring and killing people (Ford was sued for millions).

Oh, it does not take much to inflame a car considering what its interior is made of (and which reaches all the way into the boot in most vehicles). Plastics, carpet, insulation, other fabrics, etc., etc. A liter would easily ignite one.

Surisingly enough, the proper petrol cans you buy are rated by the EU for safety etc, and they're air tight, so there's not much change of fumes escaping. I used to work for statoil and people would come in looking for plastic milk bottles to put petrol in because they ran out up the road, they'd get really annoyed when I said it was illegal to give them anything except a proper can, which obviously they had to buy.

But meh, most paid It was the same story with jump leads, they'd come in asking to borrow the leads instead of paying €20 or whatever they were..... How they expected us to make money who knows

Sam Vimes

monkeyfudge wrote:

This is a great learning oportunity.

Now I don't drive or know very much about cars but I'd think that it would be a good idea to keep a spare can of petrol in the car in future... Has anyone ever thought of this before?

you'd be a great guy to have around the day after an accident

Blue_Lagoon wrote:

Unless the can is stored somehow safely outside the vehicle (which also poses other problems), I believe there are several potential hazards:

1) Petrol fumes are a health hazard if inhaled (especially over protracted periods).

2) Fumes in a confined space may explode and burn with a spark.

3) A lot of automotive research has been conducted in anticipation of auto crashes, including what happens to stored fuel in a vehicle on impact. For example, the Ford Pinto's fuel tank was defective and exploded on impact injuring and killing people (Ford was sued for millions).

Oh, it does not take much to inflame a car considering what its interior is made of (and which reaches all the way into the boot in most vehicles). Plastics, carpet, insulation, other fabrics, etc., etc. A liter would easily ignite one.

1) they can put a man on the moon, i think they're capable of making an airtight container. fumes wouldn't be a problem

2) fumes that are under pressure are more likely to explode, in fact the prevention of this happening too soon in an engine is a large part of a cars design. its call knocking. however, putting it in an airtight container doesn't make it more likely to explode. if it did, petrol stations would regularly explode

3) this applies to fuel stored in the tank too. if someone wants to avoid this hazard they'd have to attempt to drive the car with an empty tank for safety's sake. but if they put it in the boot in a heavy duty container they should be safe enough. in fact it'd probably be safer than the fuel in the tank since cars are designed to crumple on impact making it more likely that the petrol tank will be breach and leak fuel. a heavy duty container would withstand an impact better

and the Upholstery etc in a car is designed to be fire retardant

padi89

Of course its OK to cary a spare can of petrol.Last time i looked the 8 euro petrol can i have has an airtight seal.If the impact is bad enough for a thick plastic airtight can to go up then im pretty sure the tank would have gone up too.
The only thing that would bother me is if it leaked ,the smell would be rotten in the car for weeks im sure.

dragona

theCzar wrote:

I'm curious though dragona, when your husband rang with this problem did you say, "chill, I'll post a message on a bulletin board for the insomniacs to answer" and then hang up?

Of course....
Except I called him a f*****g idiot - this KEEPS happening, always waiting till the last minute to fill up.

dragona

rsta wrote:

Did he get sorted??


We like follow up stories here..

Yep I think he drove at snail speed and just about made it to somewhere
And the funny thing is, he was driving a borrowed car with only a quarter of a tank because he forgot to fill up OUR car.
I'm pretty sure it won't happen again!

theCzar

petrol is expensive these days, tavelling around with less petrol means you need less petrol because of reduced weight!

Sparky

dragona wrote:

Of course....
Except I called him a f*****g idiot - this KEEPS happening, always waiting till the last minute to fill up.

Buy a diesel car next time.

theCzar

Sparky-s wrote:

Buy a diesel car next time.

solar powered! oh wait ... 1am? hmmmm

Nevyn

monkeyfudge wrote:

This is a great learning oportunity.

Now I don't drive or know very much about cars but I'd think that it would be a good idea to keep a spare can of petrol in the car in future... Has anyone ever thought of this before?

You are NOT ment to keep a full can/cannister of petrol in the car that is too dangerous.
You are ment to keep an empty one so that you can go and get petrol if you run out and bring it back to the car.

monkeyfudge

Pfffft... airtight... The fumes are half the fun.

delly

monkeyfudge wrote:

Pfffft... airtight... The fumes are half the fun.

mmm....petrol fumes.....

nanook

Thaedydal wrote:

You are NOT ment to keep a full can/cannister of petrol in the car that is too dangerous.
You are ment to keep an empty one so that you can go and get petrol if you run out and bring it back to the car.

Spot on, you should not carry a full container in boot, it is not safe as per previous posts.

dingding

dragona wrote:

Yep I think he drove at snail speed and just about made it to somewhere
And the funny thing is, he was driving a borrowed car with only a quarter of a tank because he forgot to fill up OUR car.
I'm pretty sure it won't happen again!

I'd say the person who lent the car was happy when they got it back without enough petrol to get it to a petrol station. :cool:

Lump

theCzar wrote:

petrol is expensive these days, tavelling around with less petrol means you need less petrol because of reduced weight!

I hope that was a dig at Cormac and you're not bring serious!

Lump

nanook wrote:

Spot on, you should not carry a full container in boot, it is not safe as per previous posts.

Why?