Misfueling solution ?

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mr wilks

Lifer
 Lancashire
after doing this some years ago & feeling pretty pi66ed off http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2220871/Motorists-filling-cars-wrong-fuel-costs-Britain-150m.html
i still find it hard to believe that pump nozzles & car tanks can't have round/square/triangle nozzles to suit different fuels :?
cheap plastic inserts could easily be fitted inside the filler neck of cars already on the road ?
yes ?
no ?
 
I agree it's barmy a fool-proof solution isn't out there. But then again, I've always found I can tell the difference between green and black handled pumps! I regularly fill up the wife's 4x4 diesel.
 
Putter Whore said:
I agree it's barmy a fool-proof solution isn't out there. But then again, I've always found I can tell the difference between green and black handled pumps! I regularly fill up the wife's 4x4 diesel.
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Unfortunately one of the petrol stations I use on my commute has 'ultimate' petrol & diesel, and the signage/labelling is almost identical :headbang:

It's not so much a problem when you see 4 nozzles - 2 for diesel and 2 for unleaded, but when you end up at a pump with no super unleaded on and simply see a non-black-handled nozzle with ULTIMATE on it, you'd be forgiven for believing it was super unleaded and not 'super diesel'. Especially when they're out of Ultimate Super Unleaded and cover it up, to leave Ultimate Super Diesel on show.

Luckily I've never mis-fueled :thumbsup:

Ultimate Unleaded
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Ultimate Diesel
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mr wilks said:
after doing this some years ago & feeling pretty pi66ed off http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2220871/Motorists-filling-cars-wrong-fuel-costs-Britain-150m.html
i still find it hard to believe that pump nozzles & car tanks can't have round/square/triangle nozzles to suit different fuels :?
cheap plastic inserts could easily be fitted inside the filler neck of cars already on the road ?
yes ?
no ?
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Dragons Den for you me thinks....
 
Agree this is one of those things that there isn't a simple solution for, however...

...a large sticker saying **CHECK DIESEL** stuck on the fuel filler could help.
 
The diesel nozzles are a different diameter(bigger)so putting diesel into a modern petrol car is virtually impossible.It is very easy,however,to put unleaded into a diesel as i know from bitter experience :oops:
 
I recall something on dragons den which the contestant wanted to licence to car manufacturers. Didn't get the investment :(


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I live in fear of doing this, but have 2 petrol cars so have never done it... I have only once tried to fit a diesel nozzel into a petrol filler and of course it didn't fit. Tanker driver getting it wrong though - got to be a sackable offence - never mind the £14k of damage to cars - how about the entire tank contaminated and requiring cleaning ! :o
 
We have 2 company 3 series cars... identical colour and spec... except one is a diesel and the other is a petrol..... thats asking for trouble... and indeed i once nearly put diesel into the petrol one... luckily the nosel didnt fit... and i realized my near mistake.
 
Most manufacturers fit anti filling devices at the factory now. BMW is one of them although I'd never want to test it.

Over the last 12 years or so I've always had petrol and diesel cars at the same time so have always been careful and never had a problem.

BP are one of the worst with their Ultimate fuels. A director filled up his 535d a few years ago with ultimate unleaded instead of ultimate diesel. BP paid but only because he put in ultimate petrol. If he had put in normal petrol they wouldn't have, reason being the two ultimate fuel nozzles are similar in colour.
 
And they never fixed it ...

Sometimes, I find it confusing abroad as Diesel is Gazole and at Aral all the pumps look the same, just different writing in the same colour above ...
 
When my dad got his first diesel a few years a go I bought him a fuel angel - http://www.misfuellingprevention.co.uk - works well.
 
I'm always so careful having one diesel and one petrol.

The diesel (Jag XF) as others have mentioned has an anti fill device and I have intentionally triggered it as a test. It basically trips a plastic restrictor that blocks the filler neck. Put a special 'key' in to reset.

Even so Jag put a warning in the handbook that it shoudl not be relied upon :rofl:
 
cj10jeeper said:
Even so Jag put a warning in the handbook that it shoudl not be relied upon :rofl:
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That's a standard Legal department response to certain human beings' persistent stupidity - can't account for the determination of the above-average idiot :D
 
I always double take when filling up. My RRS was Diesel and had 4 years of that, and now even after 2 years with the Z...I still have to over think the process
 
Ford has system "Ford Easy Fuel capless refuelling system" The Easy Fuel™ capless fuel-filler system is a Ford-exclusive feature that uses an integrated spring-loaded flapper door to eliminate the need for a fuel tank screw cap. That means no more fumbling to remove and tighten the cap and less fuel odor on customers’ hands or gloves when they’re at the pump. Easy Fuel also has a patented mis-fueling inhibitor to reduce improper fueling and siphoning.
The inhibitor consists of a fuel nozzle detector that guides the nozzle to the opening. If a nozzle or foreign tube of a different size – a diesel nozzle or plastic hose, for example – is placed in the filler neck of a gasoline-powered vehicle, the latches will not release. For a diesel-powered vehicle, the inhibitor will keep out the smaller gasoline nozzles.
 
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