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Marc
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   12th Jan 08 at 14:01   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
In the Telegraph Motoring paper today someone has wrote in saying he accidentley filled his car with diesel and it hasn't been the same since. The reply was that many people have done the same thing and they'd all filled up at BP, whose pumps are all green. Which means they don't even read which pump they're picking up! It got worse saying that people have done the same thing at Shell, so as well as not reading which pump they are picking up they can't distinguish between red, green and black either which is the colour of Shells pumps
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12th Jan 08 at 14:02   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I've never understood how people manage this, even if they own one of each, surely in the drive to the pump would remind you which car you were in?
Marc
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You'd think wouldn't you! I had a diesel for 5 weeks once and never once went for the petrol pump Only filled up twice obviously!
Marshall
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tell me about it. i work at a small renault/nissan main dealer. think we had 4 in the space of two weeks at one point. one of our courtesy cars has had it done 3 times. cant be long before the inj. pump gives up. there was a label on the key ring, dashboard, and inside the filler flap saying it was diesel. someppl are retarded.

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Dave A
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12th Jan 08 at 14:08   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
we had a noble M12 in that had been filled with diesel
Marc
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12th Jan 08 at 14:09   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
LOLZ
AndyKent
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quote:
Originally posted by Dave A
we had a noble M12 in that had been filled with diesel


You've got to be joking

Don't deserve to drive it (if the owner did it)
Fad
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12th Jan 08 at 14:20   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Marc
You'd think wouldn't you! I had a diesel for 5 weeks once and never once went for the petrol pump Only filled up twice obviously!


Same I had a Diesel courtesy car for two weeks never managed to go for the wrong pump.

These people belong in a nut house along with them people who can't shit in a public toilet without soiling the walls.
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Some people really are as thick as shit, like you say Shell's pumps are colour coded for christ sake, and it isnt like DIESEL and UNLEADED arent even at all similarly spelt Does wind me up when people blame someone like BP, when its their own stupid fault for not reading the pump
Tom
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12th Jan 08 at 14:22   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I'm sorry but how the hell do you put diesel in a noble
scottyp1989
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mates put petrol in his disel vectra 3 or 4 times now. keeps using the excuse that he is used to filling up with petrol but he has had the car for nearly 7 months an he put petrol in yesterday lol
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I had my Corsa, and an Escort van a while back, each one was in the petrol station about once every 2 weeks. I never once went for the wrong pump.

I'm just awaiting someone to use the excuse that 'these new diesels, you can barely tell the difference, so I thought it was petrol'

It will happen one day
Colin
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12th Jan 08 at 16:15   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I dont get how people manage it either.
Ben G
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how the hell can you not read that it not only says UNLEADED or DIESEL on the box but also says it on the nozzle bit aswell probably grannies with dementia that don't deserve to be on the road IMO.
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12th Jan 08 at 17:08   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
i think they should ban diesel
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quote:
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i think they should ban diesel
Joe
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You can normally get Diesel in a petrol due to the filler hole size and nozzle size can you?
WATSON
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12th Jan 08 at 17:35   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
My mate put diesel in his skyline once
mwg
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I've managed quite easily to not go for the petrol pump when I've needed to fill up even though I had petrol cars for the past 6 years.

These people that fill up with the wrong fuel are most likely the same ones that drive badly and generally have no interest in cars
Graham88
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When I worked in the Petrol Staton you'd get at least 1 a week (I only worked 8 hour weeks)

Gotta see their faces when they're realised what they've done, it's classic
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12th Jan 08 at 18:45   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
i work in a petrol station at the moment and just today someone put just 50p then realised it was diesel this is good though cheaper then buying redex fuel cleaner

you think thats stupid alot of people put in super unleaded as they think its the same i know this as our super wasnt working properly and people were complaing
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quote:
Originally posted by Graham88
When I worked in the Petrol Staton you'd get at least 1 a week (I only worked 8 hour weeks)

Gotta see their faces when they're realised what they've done, it's classic


I bet you sat there watching them as they filled up their cars with 50 litres of the wrong fuel without telling them
Mike
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I used to work at a garage, a woman filled her Jeep Cherokee Diesel with £50 of petrol, realised, brought it over the road to us, we drained the tank for £40, she then went back over to the petrol station, £50 of petrol, back to us, another £40 to drain, then another £50 of diesel

Third time lucky and it cost her £230 to fill up idiot
Dave A
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so she filled with petrol twice?
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