NICK..MIZEN
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Thanks for all your input ... she's back on the road for £200 ... If she makes it to Devon and back with no further probs then I think she's been a very lucky girl ....
I think there was someone on Dragon's Den the other night with a device that would prevent people putting petrol in diesel cars.
Unfortunately I wasn't fully concentrating to see how it worked (can't imagine how it would
), but I remember them saying there was quite a bit of interest from hire car companies...
Unfortunately I wasn't fully concentrating to see how it worked (can't imagine how it would
), but I remember them saying there was quite a bit of interest from hire car companies...
I think there was someone on Dragon's Den the other night with a device that would prevent people putting petrol in diesel cars.
Unfortunately I wasn't fully concentrating to see how it worked (can't imagine how it would
i saw this, iirc its a device you place into the filler which stops a petrol pump being inserted. i think it was based on the diesel nozzle being smaller so you cant put petrol in which has a larger nozzle? it makes the filler hole smaller so only a diesel nozzle can be inserted.
I think there was someone on Dragon's Den the other night with a device that would prevent people putting petrol in diesel cars.
Unfortunately I wasn't fully concentrating to see how it worked (can't imagine how it would
I watched this as well, it was basically just a peice of plastic which clipped onto the fuel tank which stopped you from putting the petrol pump in. He said that Ford have already got this design fitted to there diesel cars so i dont see why all manufacturers dont have it fitted?
As said, you cannot put diesel into a petrol as the diesel nozzle is bigger, it physically wont fit into a petrol filler neck.
I heard about the dragons den thing, but didnt see the actual product. IMO the best thing to do would be to make the diesel nozzle have one big indent in it, with a corresponding indent on the filler neck. Then if petrol cars have 2 indents, it would mean you can only physically put a petrol nozzle into a petrol fuel filler and the same for diesel. Obviously the only problem with this is you need every single petrol forecourt to swap their nozzles for the new style ones, although the cars you could just clip a plastic piece on yourself, if it didnt make it as a standard feature.
My mum once filled her tank on her Sharan with petrol. It detected the petrol instead of diesel and the ECU stopped the fuel pump and turned off the engine to prevent damage. All that was needed was to drain the tank and refuel. Start the engine again and the ECU detects diesel and voila.
I heard about the dragons den thing, but didnt see the actual product. IMO the best thing to do would be to make the diesel nozzle have one big indent in it, with a corresponding indent on the filler neck. Then if petrol cars have 2 indents, it would mean you can only physically put a petrol nozzle into a petrol fuel filler and the same for diesel. Obviously the only problem with this is you need every single petrol forecourt to swap their nozzles for the new style ones, although the cars you could just clip a plastic piece on yourself, if it didnt make it as a standard feature.
My mum once filled her tank on her Sharan with petrol. It detected the petrol instead of diesel and the ECU stopped the fuel pump and turned off the engine to prevent damage. All that was needed was to drain the tank and refuel. Start the engine again and the ECU detects diesel and voila.
no offence to anyone here who have done this by mistake,
but it makes you wonder what people are thinking when they fill up.
like when at tesco pumps you have to select pay at pump or kiosk.. many just huff and puff that the till operator hasnt activated their pump when its actually them who must press the button.
i always give the pump a good look, if anything to make sure everything is ok.
but it makes you wonder what people are thinking when they fill up.
like when at tesco pumps you have to select pay at pump or kiosk.. many just huff and puff that the till operator hasnt activated their pump when its actually them who must press the button.
i always give the pump a good look, if anything to make sure everything is ok.
I honestly dont understand how he could do this when the nozzles shouldnt physically be able to fit in?
T. Spark
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True, however as said further down, I personally dont think its hard to look at the colour of the pump
I also generally fill up at the same pumps so get into a routine of sorts
As for the diesel play thing and petrol work thing, yeah im new school mate
However going to pick up the new company car friday morning which will mean diesel and diesel
True, however as said further down, I personally dont think its hard to look at the colour of the pump
I also generally fill up at the same pumps so get into a routine of sorts
As for the diesel play thing and petrol work thing, yeah im new school mate
However going to pick up the new company car friday morning which will mean diesel and diesel
if i had a pound for everytime someone said its not difficult or i have a routine... thing with routines is when they go wrong...
lest hope your routine isnt too ingrained in your mind with the new car!
Your right, though, it should be easy..
I nearly put diesel in my rsturbo in france a few years ago. The pump was green ( unleaded you would think ) but no it was a low sulpher content diesel. Guess they had coloured it green because it was environmently friendly diesel. I noticed as I looked at the pump readout just as I was about to squeeze the trigger. 
Ok I did this to a Ford Focus, it had no fuel into, and I filled it with petrol, drove about 20 miles before it packed up, would start ect, got towed by the RAC, they drained the tank replaced the fuel filtter and thats all, all ok, cost me about £100 but that was about 5 years ago. I did about another 100k miles in her before she had to go back with no other problems.
Was this what folks saw on the telly?:
http://www.wlv.ac.uk/Default.aspx?page=18129
Spotted this on my local University's homepage. My dear aged father recently did the unleaded thing with his diesel Peugeot. When I'd finished laughing at him, I vowed I would seek something out to prevent him wasting his pension on sorting his car out when he does it again (there's no if, only a when...).
I may get one of these for him when it's released - I want to see some reviews first though.
http://www.wlv.ac.uk/Default.aspx?page=18129
Spotted this on my local University's homepage. My dear aged father recently did the unleaded thing with his diesel Peugeot. When I'd finished laughing at him, I vowed I would seek something out to prevent him wasting his pension on sorting his car out when he does it again (there's no if, only a when...).
I may get one of these for him when it's released - I want to see some reviews first though.
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