Radar19:
I have to double check if I’m tired, I run a petrol car but so used to putting diesel in my truck.
The diesel nozzle shouldn’t fit into a petrol car anyway.
I prefer to stand staring at the pump like a lemon till I twig. [emoji38]
Done that before. Was in the services fueling the truck one day when a damsel in distress came over and asked if I could help her fill her new car up. She couldn’t get the nozzle into the filler. I stood there like the lemon you describe also struggling to get the nozzle to fit. In the end up, the woman from the services came out and said we were probably trying to put the wrong fuel into the car. What a ■■■ I felt when I realised this was the case.[emoji15] [emoji15] [emoji15]
Doesnt work though the big nozzle wont fit the little hole but the little nozzle will fit in the big one.
Juddian:
So paranoid did i get about doing this that i’d sniff the filler nozzle to confirm all was right once i’d put a small squirt in.
Given up with Diesel cars now anyway, the modern stuff has got too complicated and expensive to put right when they go wrong, and they do.
That’s what I did on Saturday in France. Itd been 8 months since Id been there and when I saw GAZOIL on a yellow pump I had to have a sniff even though I kind of remembered…its paranoia I tells ya!
Bking:
Easy way to cure the problem of “wrong” fuel would be to fit a left handed collar to diesels and a right handed collar to petrols.Same on the fuel pump nozzles.
Fit a proximity switch to the nozzle collar so that until its engaged fuel cant be pumped.Cost about 50 quid per pump.Fiver per car.
But too many folk make a lot of money from your mistake.
80 quid is about the “standard " charge and they end up with the"waste” fuel and have the bloody cheek to sell you a gallon of petrol/diesel for 10 quid.
Be a lot easier if people would just watch what they’re doing, or fit a device that when you open the flap an electronic voice says ‘’ this vehicle is petrol (or diesel whatever it is) this vehicle is petrol, this vehicle is petrol’’
