Why don't they have different shaped nozzles for diesel?

[Baldbrewer]

Wife's just put £40 of petrol in her diesel car, AA charging £160 to drain out due to " driver error."

That's not quite what I said but in the same ballpark

Why oh why don't they have different shaped nozzles for diesel and petrol?!?!

 

[PD]

Pinch your brew house syphon and get her to suck it out. At least she will not do it again !

 

[THE_Liam]

I'm glad they don't to be honest. I run my diesel car on pure veg oil (usually sunflower), but in winter it gets a bit thick and starts to gel in the injection pump so I mix in a bit of petrol to thin it. Usually stick 3x20 litre drums in the tank then drive down to Shell and top it off with 3-4 litres of petrol. Used to use diesel but 10-12 litres of diesel had the same thinning effect as 3-4 litres of petrol

 

[31bb3]

id have filled it to the top with diesel it would have run ok

 

[THE_Liam]

id have filled it to the top with diesel it would have run ok

Unless it had a very large tank or was a particularly old, low-tech indirect diesel engine, it wouldn't have run ok, it would probably have had severe damage caused by explosive pre-detonation. A little bit of petrol heavily diluted would be ok, but if £40 was in there chances are thats more than half the tank...

 

[snail59]

I thought the nozels were different sizes :hmm: ??. Thought the Diesel nozel was bigger than a Petrol to stop it fitting a Petrol cars filler tube.... :whistle: :whistle:

 

[calumscott]

I'm glad they don't to be honest. I run my diesel car on pure veg oil (usually sunflower), but in winter it gets a bit thick and starts to gel in the injection pump so I mix in a bit of petrol to thin it. Usually stick 3x20 litre drums in the tank then drive down to Shell and top it off with 3-4 litres of petrol. Used to use diesel but 10-12 litres of diesel had the same thinning effect as 3-4 litres of petrol

Isn't white spirit supposed to be good as an anti-coagulant for diesel...?

I also have it on very good authority that you can burn just about anything in a diesel so long as it's as heavy or heavier oil than what comes out of the pump.

Yes, that includes old engine oil too!! :shock: Gotta change your fuel filter a bit more often mind...

 

[THE_Liam]

Isn't white spirit supposed to be good as an anti-coagulant for diesel...?

I also have it on very good authority that you can burn just about anything in a diesel so long as it's as heavy or heavier oil than what comes out of the pump.

Yes, that includes old engine oil too!! :shock: Gotta change your fuel filter a bit more often mind...

Yeah white spirit is very good at thinning it down, but strangely it's illegal to use in a road vehicle. Same with engine/gearbox oil, kerosene and paraffin. Engine oil is particularly good, they pull like you've doubled the boost because of the higher calorific value of lubricant oil

Not that I'd know, because that's illegal...

 

[oldbloke]

I thought the nozels were different sizes :hmm: ??. Thought the Diesel nozel was bigger than a Petrol to stop it fitting a Petrol cars filler tube.... :whistle: :whistle:

Yeh, that stops you putting diesel in a petrol car, doesn't stop you putting petrol in a diesel car

What happened to hydrogen, eh?

Where's my jetpack?

 

[THE_Liam]

What happened to hydrogen, eh?

Hydrogen fuel cell cars will never be allowed to become popular, the oil firms have too much sway in government...

Not that I'm bothered to be honest, there's no substitute for internal combustion :mrgreen:

 

[Baldbrewer]

BMW only fitted the misfuelling device in 2006 our reg = 55 plate :cry:

Needless to say I found it much more useful to fit an antifuelling device to the wife
I sure it didn't hurt........much :thumb:

 

[Archtronics]

£160 to drain it out :wha: you can buy a little pump for £30, we use one for oil changes much easier w ay of doing it.

 

[Baldbrewer]

£160 to drain it out :wha: you can buy a little pump for £30, we use one for oil changes much easier w ay of doing it.

Yep got one in my garage for oil changes etc, except she was 40 miles away on the side of a main road and I was on my 2nd whiskey mac lol!

AA Fuel specialist had to drive up from London and then they needed another van to tow her home to do the job on our drive.
Poor bugger it was pissing down,kept him topped up with coffee and choccie biccies.
Hope those guys are paid well ,he earnt his wages yesterday.

 

[Wendy1971]

ive done that many moons ago and it cost me a fair few quid at a garage but im a woman and i do like a good gosip :lol:

 

[Titus A Duxass]

This was a worry of mine - I've just had a diesel to petrol conversion done on my VW Camper.
Fortunately the guy who converted it also fitted a new filler neck so I can't fill it with diesel (like I have been doing for the last 7 years).

 

[THE_Liam]

This was a worry of mine - I've just had a diesel to petrol conversion done on my VW Camper.
Fortunately the guy who converted it also fitted a new filler neck so I can't fill it with diesel (like I have been doing for the last 7 years).

Which model? If you don't mind me asking, why did you convert to petrol? In my experience most people go the other way...

 

[jonewer]

What happened to hydrogen, eh?

Hydrogen fuel cell cars will never be allowed to become popular, the oil firms have too much sway in government...

Not that I'm bothered to be honest, there's no substitute for internal combustion :mrgreen:

Well, you can just as easily run an internal combustion engine on hydrogen.

I dont think the oil firms are worried about hydrogen though, you would still have to burn the same oil and then some to make enough hydrogen.

 

[THE_Liam]

Well, you can just as easily run an internal combustion engine on hydrogen.

I dont think the oil firms are worried about hydrogen though, you would still have to burn the same oil and then some to make enough hydrogen.

Really? Never heard of that one myself, is the technology anywhere near?

 

[jonewer]

Well, you can just as easily run an internal combustion engine on hydrogen.

I dont think the oil firms are worried about hydrogen though, you would still have to burn the same oil and then some to make enough hydrogen.

Really? Never heard of that one myself, is the technology anywhere near?

Technology to burn hydrogen in an internal combustion engine? Been around for decades.

The problem is not how to burn hydrogen, its how to obtain and store significant quantities of it in a cost effective manner.

 

[THE_Liam]

Well, you can just as easily run an internal combustion engine on hydrogen.

I dont think the oil firms are worried about hydrogen though, you would still have to burn the same oil and then some to make enough hydrogen.

Really? Never heard of that one myself, is the technology anywhere near?

Technology to burn hydrogen in an internal combustion engine? Been around for decades.

The problem is not how to burn hydrogen, its how to obtain and store significant quantities of it in a cost effective manner.

It'd be great if it ever became widely available, hydrogen is dirt cheap! I could get a V8 again :)