I'm such a tool, diesel BlackBird anyone?

[_Stretchie_]

Originally Posted by squirrel_hunter

Mr Stretchie,

You are no longer allowed to comment on my oil filling abilities without me bringing this incident up.


Regards, Mr Squirrel.

Do what makes you feel good, remember though, I have only done this once and as such retain the right to take the mick out of you....

How many engines you gone through because of your "oil filling in abilities"?

Friend of mine sold his absolutely mint-condition GSXR1000, built by Crescent to BSB standard with all the toys, about £30,000 worth of stuff on there. Had to sell it due to legal bills, ended up selling it to a van driver, who proceeded to ride it to the nearest garage, fill it with diesel, then not be able to ride it and break it for parts.

Not too good, but at least it was small enough that it didn't totally ruin the bike! Just waiting for when I do it now...

[Luckypants]

Originally Posted by Jayneflakes

Lesson here folks, don't fill up if you are tired, stressed or having an off day!

Yep, went to fill the car at 1am after a long drive Sunday night, half way through had a massive panic I was filling with petrol. Luckily it was just paranoia. I have put petrol in my car once in the past, but realised my mistake and brimmed it with diesel to compensate.

[anna]

Originally Posted by squirrel_hunter

Mr Stretchie,

You are no longer allowed to comment on my oil filling abilities without me bringing this incident up.


Regards, Mr Squirrel.

He might not be able to, but there are plenty of others that will

I've not done it to the bike yet (fingers crossed, touching wood with my non-typing hand) but we have one diesel and one petrol car. Every time I go to fill one up, and I know Wifey does the same, I'm either chanting in my head "passenger : petrol" or "driver : diesel" to make sure I fill up on the right side. If the filler caps weren't on opposite sides on the two cars I think we'd have blown something up by now!

[garynortheast]

My trouble is that I use the bike most of the time and automatically reach for the petrol nozzle when filling the tank.

the one thing that most of you with common rail diesel motors dont realize is that if you put petrol in a diesel car and run any petrol through the pump say as little as a thimble/eggcup full then you can put a almost 100% chance that one day may be even 40k or more down the road on one cold british winters day a light will come on to say low pump pressure and a bill for about a grand,the pumps run at 100+bar and the only lube is the diesel and lack of lube is a killer,a mate in the rac says that most diesel pumps are good for 250k and almost all of the premature failer he has seen can be tracked back to petrol being added into the tank

[yorkie_chris]

Most petrol engines won't die horribly for quite a while if you get a bit of diesel in there. Mate of mine used to run contaminated petrol in his escort all the time, ran right enough if suitably diluted. If you start to hear pinking then add some more petrol or don't let it "lug" at low rpm.

Probably not a good idea long term but I would not be too fussed about 1l in a 15-20l tank. Ride it home, drain it out into cans and add a can per tank therafter to burn it off.

I have never mis-fueled, but the chap next door used to run his picasso HDI on scrapyard diesel that his brother got for him, 1 HP fuel pump and set of injectors later he started using pump diesel. those HP pumps are a bit more than 100 bar, old pug 306 D turbos inject at 175 bar and will run on just about anything, modern common rail diesels are scary high pressure (the current 1.6 hdi is 1600 bar) so the pump needs to have the lubrication or they die really quickly.

Is it just me or should petrol and diesel have different shape nossels and holes so that its physically impossible to put the wrong fuel in? Like them shapes you try and push through holes as a kid.
Or am I missing something?.