....right into the cockpit, all over the top, and left rear of my MSM...
After working the Mercury Mariner program at The Shops at Willow Bend today, I pulled into the QT station on Hebron in Plano to fill the gas tank. Top was down. I put the fuel nozzle in the opening and waited for it to fill, on auto-fill mode. I was looking at the thing registering over 10 gallons when I expected less than 9 tp fill, and suddenly fuel was spilling all over the trunk, left side, down into the folded top area, and all over the ground. I grabbed it and shut it off but not before more than half gallon spewed all over the areas described. I immediately grabbed towels and wet them and began washing it off and cleaning down in the top fold area, raised the top and cleaned it well. Bottom line, I was there 20 minutes cleaning the crap out of the interior, top, and painted sections, and also the trunk channel. Hopefully, I got it clean enough to not discolor the top or the paint. Will clean more Sunday. I went in and talked to the clerk, who had been watching it all, and advised him the thing never shut off automatically. His response, "that happens all the time on top filling gas tanks, the pump nozzle just doesn't seal enough to make the pump shut off automatically. I think that's BS, and he has a faulty nozzle. I had him put his name and the store number on my receipt, and give me a name and number to call just in case there is discoloration of top and paint that won't clean off, but he was adamant that it happens all the time on top loading fills... Has anyone else had this problem? This is the first time it has happened to me in this car, and I have 5500 miles on the car now. I hope I just need to go over it with soap and water and re wax the painted areas....
