Only you can prevent diesel disasters

[youngsod]

Forgive me for I have sinned, I have finally been forced over to the dark side and have bought a diesel Volvo V60. I know, I know…

The thing is I know myself, and after 22 years of putting petrol into cars, I am guaranteed to try to put petrol into this one. Does any one have any recommendations for those devices that stop you mis-fuelling? I will need something I'm sure of it, I can already hear the bking from the wife.

[Caulkhead]

Yes, sell the rattler and buy a petrol like god intended.

[turbopug]

http://www.seamarknunn.com/acatalog/info_KCSD.html

It does happen. I've done it myself.

[RobM77]

I bet you'll never do it I'm on my first diesel now, and also own a petrol car, but I never get them mixed up.

And diesel's not so bad - I changed to avoid the hideous throttle delay that almost all petrols have now.

[redtwin]

Will the petrol nozzle fit?. Newer diesels sometimes have special fuel filler openings that will only allow larger diesel nozzles in. Wife's new Fiesta is like this, bit of a faff as you have to push the nozzle in at a particular angle, but if it prevents mis-fuelling it is a small price to pay.

I know a Fiesta is not a V60, but there is a Ford link.

[youngsod]

I'll check the nozzle when we visit the dealer this weekend. It's all been a bit quick buying this car after a kebab delivery driver decided to do £11.5k of damage to the wife's Jazz and write it off. We spent the entire weekend (and I mean entire) going round dealers looking at cars. By the end of it I was ready to set fire to my collection of Autocar and Car magazines.

Trust me I will try and stick petrol in it, I'm a scatterbrained numpty at times.

[Shaw Tarse]

Either buy a sticker, or maybe put a blob of paint on the filler cap?

[littleandy0410]

Don't know if this will work, never tried one, but remember laughing at them when in the queue once:

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/...

I must admit it's something I always worried about doing, but in the 5 years I owned a diesel and a petrol, I never even picked up the wrong nozzle.

[J4CKO]

We have 2 petrold and a Diesel, not had any issues, am quite aware of what I am in, the clue is the diesel is slower, noisier and not in a good way, plus it says diesel on the fuel cap on the inside.

[thinfourth2]

No help but

I win the numpty prize

Put the V8 landrover on the trailer behind the diesel landrover

Drove to petrol station and filled up the petrol one with diesel and the diesel one with petrol

[youngsod]

I just don't want to take the chance, and I just know I'll do it without thinking if I don't get something that will physically stop me. Even stickers and the like won;t be enough as it only takes once to make a mistake. As my mother always tells me - too many brains and not enough common sense!

[RobM77]

thinfourth2 said:

No help but

I win the numpty prize

Put the V8 landrover on the trailer behind the diesel landrover

Drove to petrol station and filled up the petrol one with diesel and the diesel one with petrol

ETA: I didn't think a diesel filler nozzle would fit in a petrol filler? Aren't they bigger? I presume that's not the case on a Landrover?

Edited by RobM77 on Thursday 25th August 12:16

[slipstream 1985]

thinfourth2 said:

No help but

I win the numpty prize

Put the V8 landrover on the trailer behind the diesel landrover

Drove to petrol station and filled up the petrol one with diesel and the diesel one with petrol

thanks ginger bear all over my notebook now!!

[oyster]

slipstream 1985 said:

thinfourth2 said:

No help but

I win the numpty prize

Put the V8 landrover on the trailer behind the diesel landrover

Drove to petrol station and filled up the petrol one with diesel and the diesel one with petrol

thanks ginger bear all over my notebook now!!

A grizzly one?

[XJSsometimeSoon]

thinfourth2 said:

No help but

I win the numpty prize

Put the V8 landrover on the trailer behind the diesel landrover

Drove to petrol station and filled up the petrol one with diesel and the diesel one with petrol

You win. I just spat soup out all over my desk and laptop

[Zod]

With a petrol X5, the problem I had in Italy (where they still have petrol pump attendants) was to prevent them from putting diesel into it!

[FreeLitres]

If you put Petrol in a Deisel car, do they go quicker and sound less like a tractor?

[Fats25]

http://www.stopdieselmisfuelling.co.uk/fuelsure-di...

??

[alock]

Some insurance companies now offer insurance. Axa charge something like £6/year to cover your costs if you get it wrong.

[monthefish]

RobM77 said:

And diesel's not so bad - I changed to avoid the hideous throttle delay that almost all petrols have now.

I have avoided Diesels thus far because of the

'throttle'..........
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....
...
'response'

situation.