Wrong fuel in your car.

[paphos-mcfc]

My mate, first week as a delivery driver, was told to fill up a new van for his first time, he put diesel instead of petrol, caused a few quids worth of damage and nearly lost his job, I think he had to cover half the costs. Anyway, we gave him some stick for a while and nicknamed him "Van Diesel" funny as fuck.

 

[spendmorethanerikson]

A couple of years ago two blokes were on Dragons Dragon who had designed an attachment to stop you putting the wrong fuel in. Can't remember what they were called but i do remeber all the Dragons eyes lit up.

 

[DiscoSteve]

Putting petrol in a modern diesel and running it will usually end up with you coughing up at least a thousand quid to fix it (if insurance doesn't pay) and you can invalidate your warranty on the engine if you're still in those first few years of newness

If you do it and realise BEFORE you drive off, don't start the car, just call the AA - they have a service just for this kind of mistake...

 

[gaudinho's stolen car]

Somebody should come up with some kind of different nozzle system for the different fuels. I'm surprised nobody has thought of it actually.

 

[toffee balls]

What do you need to know guys

I have put diesel in a petrol car x 1

I have put petrol in a diesel car x 2

glad I don't smoke that shit anymore

Work part-time at a petty station and witnessed a woman put a fivers worth of diesel into her unleaded Daewoo Matiz (sp?). After i told her not to start it up 'cause she'd fuck her engine and to get onto her breakdown people, it cost her £130 for the pleasure of them draining it out. What made me wonder is that the diesel pump nozzle is a bit bigger than the unleaded nozzle so she must of struggled to get the diesel into her car and makes me think she was a bit stupid.

Anyone else managed to do this. I could understand people putting unleaded into a diesel car 'cause the nozzle would fit easily but not the other way around.

She should have filled it up with pecky.
£5 of diesel to a full tank of unleaded as a ratio would make no difference
She has been ripped by the breakdown people.

 

[rickmcfc]

Somebody should come up with some kind of different nozzle system for the different fuels. I'm surprised nobody has thought of it actually.

There is, Ford use this on theri new cars, my 09 plate focus has it.<br /><br />-- Tue Jun 28, 2011 4:42 pm --<br /><br />

What do you need to know guys

I have put diesel in a petrol car x 1

I have put petrol in a diesel car x 2

glad I don't smoke that shit anymore

Work part-time at a petty station and witnessed a woman put a fivers worth of diesel into her unleaded Daewoo Matiz (sp?). After i told her not to start it up 'cause she'd fuck her engine and to get onto her breakdown people, it cost her £130 for the pleasure of them draining it out. What made me wonder is that the diesel pump nozzle is a bit bigger than the unleaded nozzle so she must of struggled to get the diesel into her car and makes me think she was a bit stupid.

Anyone else managed to do this. I could understand people putting unleaded into a diesel car 'cause the nozzle would fit easily but not the other way around.

She should have filled it up with pecky.
£5 of diesel to a full tank of unleaded as a ratio would make no difference
She has been ripped by the breakdown people.

Incorrect, you can do it the other way though, if you have a diesel and put a little bit of petrol in by mistake, it will make no pifference what so ever as long as you fill up the tank with diesel. Putting diesel in a petrol however wont do the engine any good and it wont run properly.

 

[Cake]

To be honest, why aren't the 4 types of fuel all a different shaped nozzle, whihc only fits on that type of receptacle?

Is it because it's a nice easy way for companies to make a few quid now and again?

Would cause a huge issue for every car on the road before they changed the shapes of the nozzles. For example change the diesel nozzle to a traingle and each diesel car would have to go and have a triangular shaped receptacle fitted in place of the current one just so the driver could continue to fuel it.

Ford do something called Eayfuel which stops you being able to put wrong fuel in, the neck of the filler tube is only marginally wider than a diesel nozzle for example and when you put the nozzle in it has to engage 3 separate catches in order for the fuel neck to the tank to open. As a petrol nozzle is smaller than a diesel one it won't hit all three catches and the filler neck won't open stopping you mis-fuelling your car.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I had a diesel car before and I filled it up with petrol twice. On both occasions I was fortunate that I didn't start the car.

The first time I was charged about 300 quid. It was a Friday night and I was desperate to get to Manchester so I (reluctantly) coughed up. Realise I was probably had but it was a seller's market.

The second time was in Liverpool and the guy who was behind me at the garage told me he was a mechanic. He towed it to the garage he worked at, drained it and charged me...40 quid. What a star.

I was so grateful I gave him the same again to get himself a drink. Given my reduced finances currently he'd probably have to settle for a hug if it happened today!!

 

[Anonymous]

I recall a certain ex City player that i know puttin' the wrong fuel into his new car as he tanked up for a visit to a relatives , and it cost him £3,000 to get it sorted out!

I shall save him the embarrassment !

 

[stonerblue]

What do you need to know guys

I have put diesel in a petrol car x 1

I have put petrol in a diesel car x 2

glad I don't smoke that shit anymore

Work part-time at a petty station and witnessed a woman put a fivers worth of diesel into her unleaded Daewoo Matiz (sp?). After i told her not to start it up 'cause she'd fuck her engine and to get onto her breakdown people, it cost her £130 for the pleasure of them draining it out. What made me wonder is that the diesel pump nozzle is a bit bigger than the unleaded nozzle so she must of struggled to get the diesel into her car and makes me think she was a bit stupid.

Anyone else managed to do this. I could understand people putting unleaded into a diesel car 'cause the nozzle would fit easily but not the other way around.

She should have filled it up with pecky.
£5 of diesel to a full tank of unleaded as a ratio would make no difference
She has been ripped by the breakdown people.

agreed.<br /><br />-- Tue Jun 28, 2011 6:05 pm --<br /><br />

I recall a certain ex City player that i know puttin' the wrong fuel into his new car as he tanked up for a visit to a relatives , and it cost him £3,000 to get it sorted out!

I shall save him the embarrassment !

I'm gonna go for Alex Williams.