HendrixsWhiteStratReturns Posted April 17, 2018 Author Share Posted April 17, 2018 Hi Paul / AllYes you may be right (damages claim) and I'm not holding my breath but if nothing else it might make them look at the signage at that particular pump (one guy on another forum identified the pump number I'd filled at before I even volunteered the info)!If it helps stop someone else from doing it then it's worth it.Bottom line it's my fault but I have never even come close to doing it before and am fastidious in checking so - given others doing the same thing at the same pump - then there must be something that's making people shove the wrong pump in thinking that it's petrol....can't all be coincidence/absentmindedness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM25T Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 ..... or a short skirt on the next pump ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p.mole1 Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 I used to laugh at the muppets I knew who had done this! until I was returning from Skye on a new CBR600. I was tired and almost ran out of fuel and just made to Ponteland and filled up with low sulphur diesel. I took off down the bypass past the airport and developed a misfire, Honda they never go wrong until I looked in my mirror and vast plumes of white smoke was pouring out the exhaust.I made to a car parking area and knew straight away! I just tipped out the diesel and drained the carbs ( this was back in 2000 ) called a mate with a petrol can and a few splutters later all was ok.The only worry was the diesel that was left in the belly pan which made corners a bit of a worry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HendrixsWhiteStratReturns Posted April 18, 2018 Author Share Posted April 18, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Area Representative Piers300 Posted April 19, 2018 Area Representative Share Posted April 19, 2018 Having read this post, yesterday at The Shell petrol station near Rye, I was extremely careful to double check I had selected the right fuel. It is too easy to make a mistake if you are in a hurry or tired. Luckily, three of us were out for a Blat to Rye and in no hurry and enjoying the weather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Area Representative Golf Juliet Tango Posted April 19, 2018 Area Representative Share Posted April 19, 2018 Fabulous weather too, such I shame I was in a conference room. I managed to get 15 minutes of fresh air at lunchtime and a 45 minute walk before dinner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Vine Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 The problem doesn't just lie with the pump marking but with the driver who forgets that they're driving the diesel car today rather than their usual petrol vehicle. The answer has to be mechanical and somewhat more sophisticated than the current two-size nozzle which only works one way and stops putting diesel in a petrol car. My last two (three?) diesel Mondeos all came with a shutter device on the filler entry that would accept only diesel nozzles. As a bonus, it's also capless.Ford call this brilliant idea Easy-Fuel. Works perfectly (even with the grotty cheap-o nozzles you often get at some down-market French service stations). JV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthonym Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 I often spend ages in Italian "petrol" stations trying to figure out what's diesel and what's not, looking for 98, which is very hard to find in any case. Beats me why we can't have some standard EU nozzle markings such as "petrol" "diesel" or the local language equivalents being benzina and diesel. Makes me wish I had a sense of smell, assuming the pump nozzles smell different. - anthony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HendrixsWhiteStratReturns Posted April 19, 2018 Author Share Posted April 19, 2018 I refuelled for the first time today at a different garage - I must have checked and rechecked about 5 times before pressing the delivery lever on the nozzle.... I could see the guy behind thinking "What is this idiot doing" ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthonym Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 thou art clearly traumatised. Sympathies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Area Representative Golf Juliet Tango Posted April 19, 2018 Area Representative Share Posted April 19, 2018 I am not in the least surprised. I am sure the rest of us would have done likewise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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