Shell responsible for my misfuel - unleaded in diesel car standards non compliance

jonnyd281

arcon5 wrote: »

But if you just had 2 petrol cars, i'm wondering if now and again you'd just pick up the pump without having to think twice...

Its a case of getting too familiar with consistency.

The petrol nozzle and the hole for filling on a petrol car are smaller on most modern cars so a diesel pump shouldn't fit into a petrol car.

Labmanager

arcon5 wrote: »

No one said it was rocket science, what's being said is it's easily done. Particularly when in a hurry and grabbing a Pump it's easy to look at the colour of each pump rather than read the label on it.

Clearly ops not the only one, 150k people per annum fill up with the wrong fuel - and I'm betting most of the cases that form this statistic have not fallen foul of pumps being coloured differently.

As the vast majority of fuellings are carried out correctly it must be even easier to get the right fuel into your vehicle.

Stephen_Leak

arcon5 wrote: »

<snip> Can everybody here really say they check the pump thoroughly EVERY time they visit the petrol station? <snip>

I can. And, as a result, I haven't misfuelled my car.

michaelvintner

arcon5 wrote: »

I feel for op... on many occasions this could have been me. Admittedly when your in a hurry and been stuck behind that person who goes in to pay by cash and do some shopping you just pick up the pump and fill -- in my case green (unleaded). Can everybody here really say they check the pump thoroughly EVERY time they visit the petrol station?

Saying that, it's not their fault if it stated what it was on the pump and the standards appear to be guidelines, not rules. Maybe don't spend much time fussing over your mistake?

I read the writing on the pump. The tell tale sign that either says "unleaded" or "diesel".

forgotmyname

I use sainsbury's, Thinking hard now but are their pumps not yellow?

Shows how much notice i take of the colour, But i always check the word diesel, And double/triple check if my hands do not stick to the pump.

Had so many petrol cars and now a diesel, I dread having a lapse and putting the wrong fuel in.

Maybe i should start a list of people to blame just in case. Im going to start with McKneff

Hope they dont mind

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The question I have is exactly how do you see that the price is different on a different pump, or why would you even look.

bod1467

Bear in mind that Shell have their V-Power range ... the difference between V-Power diesel and standard diesel is very similar to that between standard diesel and standard unleaded. So the price differential is not in itself a direct indicator of fuel type.

(I once inadvertently pulled up at a V-Power diesel pump, saw the price and thought !!!!!!?!?!?) :rotfl:

But I agree with most other posters - READING is not difficult ... even if you're dyslexic the difference between diesel and unleaded is sufficiently marked.

redpete

camelot1971 wrote: »

I just cant see how people put the wrong fuel in. Diesel and petrol smell totally different for starters, plus theres normally a big clue on the pump with the words "Unleaded" or "Diesel" on it

How about if you regularly drive petrol and diesel cars, have for several weeks only used petrol, then take out the diesel which needs filling, distracted by other stuff that is going on and running on auto-pilot.

Result - a tank full of unleaded in your diesel engined vehicle and a big bill to drain it. (And BTW - no-one's fault but mine.)

Andy_L

arcon5 wrote: »

I feel for op... on many occasions this could have been me. Admittedly when your in a hurry and been stuck behind that person who goes in to pay by cash and do some shopping you just pick up the pump and fill -- in my case green (unleaded). Can everybody here really say they check the pump thoroughly EVERY time they visit the petrol station?

Yes, becasue I want to get the ordinary unleaded rather than the expensive, mucked about with, "premium"

Labmanager

redpete wrote: »

How about if you regularly drive petrol and diesel cars, have for several weeks only used petrol, then take out the diesel which needs filling, distracted by other stuff that is going on and running on auto-pilot.

Result - a tank full of unleaded in your diesel engined vehicle and a big bill to drain it. (And BTW - no-one's fault but mine.)

If I regularly drive a mix of petrol and diesel cars I'd make a point of checking/double checking/treble checking....end of....story.