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« Reply #15 on: Saturday, July 6, 2013, 10:49:45 » |
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You will all be pleased to know the dilemma has been resolved
You didn't fill it 50/50 Petrol/Diesel did you? |
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« Reply #16 on: Saturday, July 6, 2013, 11:04:10 » |
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Feelin' lucky, punk?
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« Reply #17 on: Saturday, July 6, 2013, 11:08:46 » |
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I'm curious as to whether it was petrol or diesel.
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« Reply #18 on: Saturday, July 6, 2013, 11:11:18 » |
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« Reply #19 on: Saturday, July 6, 2013, 11:22:26 » |
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Another way of finding out, the filler hole on unleaded petrol cars is much smaller than a diesel pump nozzle, so you can't make the mistake of putting the wrong fuel in. It was originally designed like that when they made the switch from leaded to unleaded.
However you can fill a diesel with unleaded because the hole is much larger. When we changed the pool cars at work from unleaded to diesel we had quite a few filled up with petrol by people not realising...
I once filled my motor with diesel, rather than unleaded....I'm red/green colour blind, and absent mindedly, took then diesel colour as being green. |
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« Reply #20 on: Saturday, July 6, 2013, 11:46:25 » |
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In the same situation I would turn ignition on and see if one of those curly glow plug display thingies lit up
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« Reply #21 on: Saturday, July 6, 2013, 12:36:40 » |
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You will all be pleased to know the dilemma has been resolved
To digress slightly, did anyone else also erroneously get taught to spell dilemma with an 'n?' Apparently this is quite a widely perpetuated error for reasons that are still not entirely known. My mind still rails against the correct spelling whenever I see it. |
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« Reply #22 on: Saturday, July 6, 2013, 13:27:04 » |
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Yes, I always thought there was an n in it. Weird.
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« Reply #23 on: Saturday, July 6, 2013, 13:48:37 » |
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« Reply #24 on: Saturday, July 6, 2013, 13:56:05 » |
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I once filled my motor with diesel, rather than unleaded....I'm red/green colour blind, and absent mindedly, took then diesel colour as being green.
I saw this happen once. It was at a filling station just north of Oxford near the bypass/Summertown. The noise that the chap made on realising what he'd just done was similar to the noise you would imagine someone making if they caught their foreskin in the zip after a hefty zipping up. It was an anguished yelp. Haunting. |
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« Reply #25 on: Saturday, July 6, 2013, 14:01:06 » |
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Try sticking the diesel pump into it - if it doesn't fit then its a petrol if it does then its diesel...
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« Reply #26 on: Saturday, July 6, 2013, 15:04:32 » |
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What a Dry lunch.
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ee the trick is only pick on those that can't do you no harm
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« Reply #27 on: Saturday, July 6, 2013, 15:06:15 » |
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Try sticking the diesel pump into it - if it doesn't fit then its a petrol if it does then its diesel...
Yes, this site explains how you can put petrol in a diesel and not vice-versa. http://dieselhead.co.uk/the-great-misfuel-debate/faqs/Won't work on older cars where leaded, unleaded, diesel all had the same size nozzle. In those days they just assumed if you can drive, you knew what fuel to put in. Do they still make learners read the highway code? |
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« Reply #28 on: Saturday, July 6, 2013, 15:13:19 » |
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To digress slightly, did anyone else also erroneously get taught to spell dilemma with an 'n?' Apparently this is quite a widely perpetuated error for reasons that are still not entirely known. My mind still rails against the correct spelling whenever I see it.
The one that annoys me is the use of the phrase "baited breath" instead of the correct "bated breath". http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bai1.htm |
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« Reply #29 on: Saturday, July 6, 2013, 15:39:02 » |
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I saw this happen once.
Not seen it happen but someone in front of me in the queue at the Ford garage service department had done it. I'm not sure sure if the mechanics were more impressed or dismayed that said person had managed to drive 26 miles from the garage it happened at to Swindon. |
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