Thread: Idiot!!

Originally Posted by 3rr

At an inflated price there are adaptors that fit into the filler that make it impossible to insert a petrol nozzle but accept diesel nozzles.
Obviously this won't solve the petrol nozzle on the diesel pump issue but it will prevent absent-mindedness - not-thinking- etc. I had a staff member who pulled up at a petrol pump in a brand-new diesel ute. The pump jockey (yep, my servo still employs them) was busy chatting her up while he merrily inserted a tank full of unleaded. That ute travelled about 50km that day with noone the wiser.....next morning I get a call from another staff member (ex mechanic of 30 years experience ), who had driven it a further 40k, saying that the thing sounded like a sewing-machine and was lacking power....upshot is that after draining and purging, it fired up straightaway with no further issues - i couldn't, and still can't, believe the idiocy of the pump jockey, the ex-mechanic, and that the ute survived seemingly unscathed. All my utes now have those adaptors.

I now have a female one of those adapters who reminds me every time I fill it up, so I doubt I will be allowed to do it again!

Originally Posted by Fitzy2011

Your probably right, but I need it back ASAP so I will just have to go with it. The repairer I use has been good to me in the past, so I will accept that he is not getting stuck into me.

there is a guy on the Disco3 website in the UK who is pretty quick on shipment to OZ at very good prices.. widely used by the D3 and RRS community in Australia

Originally Posted by zilch

there is a guy on the Disco3 website in the UK who is pretty quick on shipment to OZ at very good prices.. widely used by the D3 and RRS community in Australia

Thanks, but I just got it back, all good again!

Originally Posted by 3rr

At an inflated price there are adaptors that fit into the filler that make it impossible to insert a petrol nozzle but accept diesel nozzles.
Obviously this won't solve the petrol nozzle on the diesel pump issue but it will prevent absent-mindedness - not-thinking- etc. I had a staff member who pulled up at a petrol pump in a brand-new diesel ute. The pump jockey (yep, my servo still employs them) was busy chatting her up while he merrily inserted a tank full of unleaded. That ute travelled about 50km that day with noone the wiser.....next morning I get a call from another staff member (ex mechanic of 30 years experience ), who had driven it a further 40k, saying that the thing sounded like a sewing-machine and was lacking power....upshot is that after draining and purging, it fired up straightaway with no further issues - i couldn't, and still can't, believe the idiocy of the pump jockey, the ex-mechanic, and that the ute survived seemingly unscathed. All my utes now have those adaptors.

3rr would you happen to have a link to where these adapters can be bought

Cheers Dave