Sorry community, just have to have a rant!!

I just went to put fuel in my car, but put petrol in it instead of diesel! Now I have to have my tank drained and cleaned!

Stupid mistake I know, but when the RAC guy came and picked up my car, he said to me: 'This happens about three times a week, and always at BP stations'. You know why? because they mix the diesel pumps in with the petrol pumps. I was in a rush, that's why I made the mistake.

Hate to moan about Perth again, but everywhere I have ever travelled, they have always had diesel pumps well seperate from the petrol pumps (usually to give trucks space to fill up).

Why does this place have to be different FFS? I've got no idea how much this drain and clean will cost me. As well as that the colours that define each fuel type are not much different. I've taken some digital shots of this, and emailed a complaint to BP. Wonder if they will do anything about it?

Rant over.

Andrew.

Over here the pumps have always been all mixed together, sorry to hear about your bad day though.

One day, when we have all gone electric, such confusion will be a thing of the past. Like fuel pump queues.

Unlucky Fish I once put diesel in my petrol, about twenty litres before i realised. Just drained it and filled it full of petrol and swapped out the fuel filter a few times over the next few days, old skool car so it was all good. Hope you dont get stung too much for the fix.

I thought the fuel companies recently changed the pump nozzles so they were different sizes for each type of fuel to stop this sort of thing happening. I did this very thing a few years ago, well the missus did but, luckily it was diesel in a petrol car so I just filled her up with unleaded and ran her rough for a while till she cleaned up. I know its worse the other way (petrol in a diesel car).

I feel for you mate. Its a right pain in the Arse.

SD

I sure hope they don't put the coin-operated vacuum machines too close to the fuel pumps in Australia.

We've actually had someone put diesel in his petrol car and then try to get it out with the coin-operated vacuum cleaners...

Well, what followed was an explosion, police, fire trucks etc.

Unfortunately I wasn't there when it happened and only heard about it later.

Here's a video in german: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNDqRaQXi_o

And yes, we also have all the fuels next to eachother, only the two types of gas you can get are obviously hard to confuse for something else, even though some people don't know there are two types of gas.

Same here.

In this state, diesel nozzles on the pumps have larger spouts so you can`t fit into a gas tank.
Now it is possible to put gas in a diesel tank by mistake.

Where I buy diesel fuel for my tractor the pumps are separate from the gas. In fact, just about
all the stations I have been to in this state, they are separated and have their own pumps.

That sucks Andy.

We have separate diesel pumps for tax free diesel intended for farm use only. You're fined if you use this in a car. The auto diesel pumps are right beside the auto gas pumps.