Petrol in diesel engine

Sackboy said:
No, you don't even have to know that they are words. Call them icons if you like. The pipe from the pump marked DIESEL and coloured 'whatever' goes into the car with the cap marked DIESEL and with the same colour and smell. It doesn't take much thought.
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Does the colour of the pump handle match the colour of filler cap for all petrol/diesel cars currently in production? My car's filler cap is black and the pump handle I filled up with this afternoon was green. As for the smell, I was seriously unaware that diesel and petrol smelt different (shows you how much exposure I've had to diesel machines).
 
A word does not equal an "icon" Sackboy.

Yes, for a rational person the connection of fuelpump colour and fuelcap colour makes sense. For a non rational person, who hasn't grown up in a western culture its not as self-evident as you seem to think.
 
I'm with sackboy here - if you work in a petrol station - you must be able to recognize a few things - like the word Diesel.

Else how does the dude know what to put in when you say, I'd like 93, 95, Unleaded, LRP, Diesel....
 
xrapidx said:
I'm with sackboy here - if you work in a petrol station - you must be able to recognize a few things - like the word Diesel.

Else how does the dude know what to put in when you say, I'd like 93, 95, Unleaded, LRP, Diesel....
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Spot on. It's the attendant's *job* to put the right fluids in. If he can't get that right, then he can't do his job.
 
Claymore said:
Spot on. It's the attendant's *job* to put the right fluids in. If he can't get that right, then he can't do his job.
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The thing is - you can do a lot of damage to car by putting in the wrong fluids...

e.g.
Honda put the wrong diff oil in my S2000's diff - the entire diff had to be redone at a cost of over R8,000.

If a garage employs someone to do a job, then it is their responsibility to make sure that person can do the job properly, if not, the garage should accept responsibility for any damages.

If it was me, I would have had the garage take my car by flatbed, to a decent repair shop, and have them professionally clean the tank, and all fuel lines, just in case.
 
Also, if they can't do their jobs - then we should do what is done overseas, put in our own fuel. . .
 
xrapidx said:
Also, if they can't do their jobs - then we should do what is done overseas, put in our own fuel. . .
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We could do that and I've often told them to buck up or they will be replaced by a machine. Already they can just punch in a figure, stick the pump in and it does everything.

However the ANC would find a reason to protect jobs for the workers (voters).
 
Well - I think it would be my right to do it myself... I already do the tyres, oil and water.

One of my ex girlfriends father refuses to let them touch anything on his car - because they always tend to overfull and spill.

I tell the guy if he overfills or spills, he's cleaning my car for free.
 
I let them fill my fuel till the pump's auto-stop, and clean the windscreen. Other than that, they touch nothing else. Even if they found my oil low, they don't have the right viscocity of oil, and probably don't even have synthetic oil anyway. The cooling system is a closed system, not designed to be checked every fill-up (and it's supposed to have an antifreeze solution, not plain water).
 
Yeh - I use fully synthetic oil, I always have a 500ml bottle in my boot, just in case its low and I forgot to check at home.
 
Ultimately I actually agree with both you xrapidx and Claymore... if the guy is working at a fuel station, he should know these things.. but thats not saying he does... and i'm also saying should a person be illiterate or whatever, the difference between "Petrol" and "Diesel" as words will be meaningless to the person.

But yes, I only let those guys put petrol, and wash my windscreen.. they never get to touch anything else on my car.
 
Claymore said:
I let them fill my fuel till the pump's auto-stop, and clean the windscreen. Other than that, they touch nothing else. Even if they found my oil low, they don't have the right viscocity of oil, and probably don't even have synthetic oil anyway. The cooling system is a closed system, not designed to be checked every fill-up (and it's supposed to have an antifreeze solution, not plain water).
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Same with my car... except that when the garage had to send out a vehicle to my house to come fill up my coolant, they added 1liter of coolant and 4 liters of water :rolleyes:
 
Well if the antifreeze solution is supposed to be 1 part to 4 then thats cool.. but if its supposed to be pure antifreeze, or a different mixture, you accept bad service way to easily... I'd have stripped my moer with them... esp after all the other k@k they've put you thru.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Well if the antifreeze solution is supposed to be 1 part to 4 then thats cool.. but if its supposed to be pure antifreeze, or a different mixture, you accept bad service way to easily... I'd have stripped my moer with them... esp after all the other k@k they've put you thru.
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I didn't know back then. I also didn't take my car back to them to fix (I still have to reprogram my radio each time I start the car)... too scared they break something else.
 
froot said:
I didn't know back then. I also didn't take my car back to them to fix (I still have to reprogram my radio each time I start the car)
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Then only the ignition power wire on the radio is connected. There should be two power wires on the radio: one connected to the battery, which lets the radio keep ettings etc., and one connected to ignition, so that it comes on when the car's on.
 
Claymore said:
Then only the ignition power wire on the radio is connected. There should be two power wires on the radio: one connected to the battery, which lets the radio keep ettings etc., and one connected to ignition, so that it comes on when the car's on.
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I know what's wrong... but I will have to pay to have it fixed if I take it elsewhere :)
 
If most of the 2.5litres of petrol was removed, and the tank refilled (full) with diesel, nothing will happen. The diesel will dilute the little petrol left.

Another question - Will a pure synthetic oil be safe to use in a diesel engine? Oils like GTD is designed for engines with a higher compression ratio (aka diesels). What about synthetic?
 
JungleRumble said:
If most of the 2.5litres of petrol was removed, and the tank refilled (full) with diesel, nothing will happen. The diesel will dilute the little petrol left.
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Yup, all appears fine. Tank was almost empty again today & no problems, so the fill up i did now will definitely more then dilute any remaining petrol
 
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