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# Crybaby of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/crybaby-of-the-day-12/
- Published: 2025-04-20T18:30:42.000Z
- Updated: 2025-04-20T18:30:41.000Z
- Description: The tribunal ordered that the company pay Jamie Makgill $1289 only – the cost of towing the ute and flushing it out.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day

> Jamie Makgill pulled into a new Mobil self-service truckstop in Mangawhai, Northland, planning to fill his 2018 Ford Ranger ute with diesel for a trip to Auckland. \[...\]  
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> It wasn’t diesel that he was pumping that day, but a product called [AdBlue](https://www.1news.co.nz/2019/07/15/insurer-changes-rules-after-fair-go-goes-into-bat-for-driver-who-wrecked-fuel-tank-by-adding-incorrect-additive/?ref=goodoil.news), a diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) injected into the exhaust systems of late model trucks and some cars to reduce emissions.  
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> It goes into a completely different tank and should never be mixed with diesel. \[...\]  
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> At the Mangawhai Mobil, the AdBlue dispenser was on the same bowser as a diesel dispenser, with a blue handle rather than black, signifying diesel. \[...\]  
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> Makgill pumped about 20l of AdBlue into his fuel tank, but was having trouble dispensing it.  
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> Although the nozzle fit snugly into his fuel inlet, it kept clicking off.  
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> He tried removing the [magnetic cap on the nozzle](https://www.centretank.com/support/adblue-in-diesel-tank?ref=goodoil.news) – designed to ensure that people with DEF-compatible vehicles insert the nozzle into the correct tank – but that stopped the flow, so he put it back on.  
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> Then he spilled some of the product on the forecourt.  
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> He eventually gave up and switched to a diesel pump and finished filling up with that.  
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> “I drove off, and within about 100m my vehicle was engulfed in smoke and just ruined.” \[...\]  
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> Although his mechanic and an AA assessor had estimated that $30,000 was the cost of repairs, Mittal & Son provided an “equally compelling” statement from a loss adjuster that the claim was “highly inflated”. \[...\]  
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> \[Mathew Alderidice, the Motor Trade Association’s sector manager for energy and heavy vehicles said he was unsure how Makgill had managed to dispense AdBlue when it had a magnetic cap, but no system was 100 per cent failsafe.  
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> “\[The caps\] are there to make people stop and think, ‘am I doing the right thing here?’.  
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> “It’s like having a safety on a gun, it’s going to work 99 per cent of the time but sometimes it doesn’t.”  

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