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Originally Posted by Tcoat
Not trying to debate with you and of course I don't have all the info but if you filled up with a 1/4 tank and your fuel was 70% water then you either had a pile of water in the tank to start with or you filled up with 100% water. The math doesn't work and the car should not have run at all since the very act of pumping gas in would stir up any water. It wouldn't be settled out on the bottom of the tank until the car had sat still for an hour or so but you would still have had issues if in fact it was 70% water. Unless it was a long term thing the fuel pump would not have been damaged in any way by water passing through it so not sure why it had to be replaced. Disposal of 10 gallons of water contaminated fuel would cost about $50 - $100 max so that shouldn't be a huge expense.
The sample will be telling and the bill will show you bought gas there but good luck getting them to say that other people had issues! Let us know how you make out this is indeed an interesting one.
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I'm sure you're right and that the technician exaggerated, but even if it was a high percentage of water it wouldn't have broken the car during that drive. The station is literally 3 miles from my house and I had around a quarter of a tank of good fuel still in there so that small bit was running my engine on the 5 minute drive home, then the water settled in overnight. As for the fuel pump, I'm guessing it got flooded from the multiple times I tried to start the car (since as I said in the first post, I believed that the battery was the problem at the time).
The dealership said that the new fuel pump won't arrive till Thursday so I won't see the records until then. In the meantime, I'm going to find out if there's anyone higher up I can talk to in the gas station, maybe find the supplier. Again, this is not a small station in a remote area. It gets a lot of activity during the day and I've been getting gas almost exclusively there for 3 years. I'm sure that other people got screwed that day like I did, I just have to get them to admit it.