ooops. petrol in derv

[Danzibar9]

Doh can't beleive i did it. I put £30 of unleaded in my derv leon. Luckily i noticed before i started it and drove off. After a few frantic phone calls if got the number of a company to sort it out for me. They came round in an hour and a half and sucked all the unleaded out. £186 later i was on the road again. £186!!! Be warned, be carefull. Thats all

 

[Torquemonster]

It's very easily done.Especially if you have a lot on your mind,and are in a rush.
Ford's newest Focus and Mondeo have a system that makes it impossible to fill up with the wrong fuel.Don't know if it's been patented or not.Probably.

 

[devonutopia]

The smell is enough to tell me which is the right one. I am so paranoid about putting unleaded in mine I will check & double check it is diesel. Have yet to mis-fuel a car to date.

 

[Muttley]

I make a habit of always putting on the plastic gloves when I'm fuelling with diesel. If the filling station has run out then I have a pack in the car. It helps to get in a different routine right away, as soon as I get out of the car. It seems to have worked so far . . .

 

[techie]

It's very easily done.Especially if you have a lot on your mind,and are in a rush.
Ford's newest Focus and Mondeo have a system that makes it impossible to fill up with the wrong fuel.Don't know if it's been patented or not.Probably.

Yup, it either is the one or very like the one designed by a sucessfull chap on Dragons Den.

 

[JamesL]

how does it work?

 

[truCido]

Or you could buy one of those little things from halfords that speaks and tells you diesel when you open your fuel cap lol!!

 

[Cupra Kev]

The system the new Focus and Mondeo use (possibly more) is a filler cap that it's physically impossible for a petrol nozzle to go into - can't remember specifics, but either the petrol nozzle is larger so smaller filler, or petrol nozzle is smaller so requires contact top bottom and sides of the filler cap before it allows fuel in.

 

[T. Spark]

ooops indeed! Expensive fill up, I hope you asked for the petrol so you could sell is 2nd hand

 

[ChrisUK]

Put £5 in mine before I realised. Brimmed with diesel & it was fine

 

[RobTheHood]

I'm sure top gear did a 'test' or maybe fifth gear about this very thing, and ran the car! Diesel car sothered the most and broke down I think, plus they used older model cars which may actually be more robust than modern engines to the change. Just be careful otherwise expect a big bill

 

[Jonboy582]

Doh can't beleive i did it. I put £30 of unleaded in my derv leon. Luckily i noticed before i started it and drove off. After a few frantic phone calls if got the number of a company to sort it out for me. They came round in an hour and a half and sucked all the unleaded out. £186 later i was on the road again. £186!!! Be warned, be carefull. Thats all

Not like in the old day. My dad did that, then syphoned it out as they sit at different layers. And kept the fuel he syphoned out and the fuel in the engine lol. See now that's free

 

[Danzibar9]

Well we nearly tried that. My bro turned up with a length of hose and some buckets, but we thought better of it.