Nearly made a terrible mistake!

[jd_1984]

I have been driving my dads diesel car for over a week (he needed my car as it is larger for a trip to Scotland). My car is unleaded.
I went to the petrol sation in my car this morning, half asleep, picked up the diesel pump and just as I as I went to squeeze the handle, I realised what I was doing!
That would have been a costly mistake!!!!

[ummmm]

My Dad filled up a transit van with petrol...he was not happy!!

[piggynose]

wish i cudve seen his face if you had.
lol

[yogi-bear]

Hey jd,

Very lucky indeed as if you put in the diesel, possible engine damage and all kinds of problems would have occurred.

You would have had a big bill on your hands, thats for sure.

Could possibly consider this a let-off and treat myself to something really extravagant as a present for being such an astute and clever soul. :0)

I'd buy a rum and raisin Carte D'or ice cream tub..... and scoff the lot! ( now thats what i call treating oneself....lol )

[yogi-bear]

.....or a packet of twiglets :0)

[Dee Sa]

I did that once put £4 worth of diesel instead of unleaded then stopped, paid the £4 but refused to move my car until I rang the RAC they werent happy threatened me with the police ! in the meantime the RAC arrived and said put petrol in to the full amount and everytime your tank uses a quarter fill it up and keep doing that for about a week and you should be okay, luckily it worked but if I had put petrol in a diesel tank they said the tank would have had to be completely washed out. I was on my way to Heathrow to collect a friend and that made me panic all the more.

[jd_1984]

There probably would have been a couple of drops in and around the nozzle that may have dripped in to the tank, but I doubt any damage has been done. I was literally about to start fueling and something made me look up at the read out which had the diesel price per litre displayed, so immediately yanked the nozzle out

[boxtops]

I thought the nozzles were incompatible, so diesel doesn't fit in petrol, and vice versa?

[andy-hughes]

I thought that - and if it is not the case, then it should be - that the nozzles are tank funnels are different sizes, so that it's not possible to put the incorrect nozzle in the incorrect funnel.

If this is not a design feature on modern cars, then it's high time it was.

[jd_1984]

My car is a 2005 mercedes C class and the nozzle did go in!