Wasn't Thinking!!

[WD40]

So are you saying we never know what's going into our tanks?
Doug

 

[Zmann ARGH]

here is another fear of mine ... I am so paranoid of putting gasoline in my diesel truck ,, that whan I drive my wifes Tahoe 5.7 ( when my ford is down)
I fear filling it with diesel lol

 

[fordoor]

That's how I interpreted it too, unfortunately.

 

[DaveBen]

I have another vehicle, a Toyota Corolla, that I had that fear for, but it is totally natural to put gas in the car and diesel in the truck. I would be very surprised if I grabbed the wrong handle.

Dave

 

[fordoor]

I thought that as well. Was in a hurry, thinking about other things,hadn't had my 1st cup of coffee yet. But I came to my senses when only 4.9 gals. went in her. Coulda been way worse. Like, if I would have walked in for that cup of joe!

 

[roger2003]

It's a mix.
When I drove a fuel tanker. There was guys that would cross mix all the time with diesel and gas. Like put 10k of gas on to of 10k diesel. They would send me over to do a pump out of a hot load, then pump the hot load back into the terminal tank were it would mix down with new fuel. Then they would do a flash test on it, then send it right back out on my truck for another station.

That is interesting, I wouldn't have guessed that- but that is good info to lock into the mental rolledex!!!!!!

 

[Dogman]

What drives me nuts here is the color of the filler handles. Hess use orange for diesel, Marathon uses green for diesel, Shell uses yellow, others uses red or black. So you have to look twice before you pump. There starting to get everything one coler now so......

 

[Zmann ARGH]

good point .. how stupid is that ! remember old school you could not put reg in an unleaded vehicle // they could have spent a dime and solved the gas / diesel issue also

 

[caissiel]

Here in Canada or in New Brunswick the nozzles are all in green, but the nozzle size is now small like the gas size. It use to be bigger and I could feel the difference. I have been driving diesels for over 20 years now and never did the mistake because when I fuel the Diesel vehicles it's much different at the pumps here, but when I look for Diesel pumps in the states I get confused because of the green nozzles used on Gasoline pumps.

We use to put 1 gallons of Gasoline in our VW Diesel here in the winter so the fuel would not gel as much. But I have never put it in my trucks. Those VW pumps would pump anything that burn anyway just like the old diesel trucks did.

 

[rammertide07]

What drives me nuts here is the color of the filler handles. Hess use orange for diesel, Marathon uses green for diesel, Shell uses yellow, others uses red or black. So you have to look twice before you pump. There starting to get everything one coler now so......

x2!!!!