Thread: Young Lady having a bad day

I almost got caught out when filling up at a different servo to the several ones I regularly use. The colour of the diesel pump handles at my regular servo's is black and through force of habit picked up the black pump handle at the new servo, only it turned out to be premium unleaded. Lucky I always double check the pump before starting to fill up as (although pretty hardy) I don't think Tdi's do so well with 3/4 of a tank of petrol in them. Reminded me not to be too complacent!

The diesel nozzles at my locals have a secondary lever that has to be depressed to dispense fuel. It wouldn't help in this case.

I would definitely not say you are cold hearted Ean.

Easy to do, and all our cars are diesel. I say that as I nearly put petrol in my wife's diesel car. Just got distracted when I picked up the nozzle. Luckily noticed the nozzle was the wrong colour before I pulled the trigger.

I've been to a couple of servo's where the somebody has swaped the nozels so the unleaded one was hung up on the diesel pump & vice verser. Supose they think it is funny people putting the wrong fuel in there car. I always make sure the nozel & hose goese to to the type of fuel I require.

Well done for looking out for her, Ean.

The mistake is all too easy to make, when you are distracted, or cars aren't your thing. It's worse when it's easy to put petrol in a diesel, where the damage can be severe, and hard to put diesel in a petrol car, which isn't quite so bad. ( I'll qualify that by saying I have no idea what damage it can do to modern injected petrol cars. In the carby and early injected days all it meant was that the car wouldn't run.)

They should make one square, and the other round...

Originally Posted by 1950landy

I've been to a couple of servo's where the somebody has swaped the nozels so the unleaded one was hung up on the diesel pump & vice verser. Supose they think it is funny people putting the wrong fuel in there car. I always make sure the nozel & hose goese to to the type of fuel I require.

Fortunately that 'clever' trick will never get the wrong fuel delivered to the tank as lifting the nozzle is what activates the pump so, if the nozzle is on the wrong pump, it will never flow as the pump it belongs to still has nozzle holstered on it..... If that all makes sense. Still, it doesn't hurt to be OCD about it, I am!