Black is the new green.....

Well, at least when you're filling up and have taken the wrong handle...

<thud>

 

Dum dum dum

 

ITYM dumb, dumb, dumb, as in sans-plumb.

HTH YTTC.

 

You complete numpty.
Did you ride it?

 

Not very far..................

 

Well, at least when you're filling up and have taken the wrong

You put diesel in your bike?

 

I heard a news story on the radio saying that some consumer group wanted
more obvious labels on the pumps because something like 400 people a day
fill up with the wrong fuel. I thought "surely no one with an ounce of
sense can mix up 'Diesel' on a black handle and 'Unleaded' on a green
handle, let alone 400 a day!"

So, what's your excuse? And secondly, what were you doing out on your
bike? It was all but unrideable when you wussed out of the mirtth
yesterday.

 

Bwahahahahahaaaaaahhhhaaaa!!!

You thick, thick, thick, ****.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19

 

I think it's because the handle colours aren't standard. For example
Sainsburys petrol stations have yellow handles for diesel pumps
whereas Tesco have black.

And also the pipe isn't always the same colour as the handle. The BP
near me has all black pipes with only different coloured handles.

Still, dunno how hard it is to always pick the green one which
unleaded always seems to be. At least if you put that in a diesel
it's not going to moan as much as putting diesel in an unleaded.

 

A work colleague managed to put unleaded in his wife's company cage (a
diesel BMW) It cost them ~£4K to be fixed. The lease company insisted
on the tank, injectors, filters etc all being changed. He tried but
couldn't get out of it in any way. The only way BMW would honour the
warrantee was if the work was carried out.

 

Wow, I always thought diesels were pretty tolerant of any old shite
being put in them.

This may only apply to tank engines though.

 

A mate had an old Transit diesel van, started to run out of fuel on the
way back from a banger meet. We emptied all the petrol we had into his
van and it got us home no problems.

It did pop and bang a bit but other than that it was ok.

 

I suspect it's more a case of the lease company & BMW being cunts.

 

I filled the empty tank of an (almost) new Vauxhall Vectra TD with
petrol and drove it 110 miles. It got rather hot, I glanced in the
mirror as I blipped the throttle and it kicked out a load of smoke.

Apparently the real damage is potentially to the injector pump since
these are high precision in a diesel engine and where diesel is a
lubricant petrol is a solvent.

In my case I took it to the fleet garage and they dumped the contents of
the tank and injection system refilling with diesel and away I went.
They refused to see the funny side on the Wednesday that I did it.
Probably 'cos I'd done it on the Monday as well.

Still, it was a company car and did a further 20k miles for me with no
signs of damage. I then left the company and trust me in the last week
or so I did my best to blow the fucker up (revving hard with no load
etc.) and it wouldn't go pop.

 

Jonathan of this parish spent £1200 on a new injector pump for his Astra Di
last year after running it on petrol. Ouch.

 

I needed the diesel pump on by citroen ZX refurbished and the top plate
needed to be replaced (the plate is aluminium and a steel arm runs in
this plate- the throttle without a bush although there is an o-ring in
place). The plate cost 100- to replace and I asked them to recalibrate
the injectors and the pump. The bill came to about 300- and that was
with labour at 30-/hour since I got a reduction (normal rate 45 IIRC).

Diesel pumps are expensive things; a refurb unit would cost about 500-

Still it's gone through two MOTs since and with 165k on the clock it's
(to quote the MOT inspector) "as clean as a whistle".

 

****. The company had to pay for it?
They should have simply taken it round the corner and got a mechanic to
clean out the fuel system without the lease company being any the wiser.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19

 

Troo.
I thought it used to be quite common to put 'a few litres' of petrol into
diesel, especially during freezing spells, when the old diesel stuff would
start waxing up.
I think this was before all these injector thingies.

 

The company I work for had a brand new Merc Sprinter which was two weeks old
when I took it to Italy. After filling up outside Rome,
2 miles up the road it went bang! Apparently the fuel had water in it and as
diesel is a lubricant for the pump and water isn't, it seized, broke up and
fucked off through the engine which, after that was a write off. Mercedes
admitted it was 'a design fault' as it shouldn't have broke up and replaced
the motor!
It would have happened if it had been petrol too.

 

Generally parafin or kerosene IIRC.

And Diesels have *always* had injectors since they were a twinkle in
Rudolf's eye (I believe).