Colourblind or just blind?

Was out for a pleasant bimble last night, when I noticed in a lay-by two
ZX-6Rs and a white van. I stuck my nose in, of course. One of the
Kwaks was being fiddled with by two beleathered blokes, and the driver
of the white van, a local biker of my acquaintance, who had stopped to
render assistance. Said ZX-6R was belching large clouds of grey smoke
from the exhaust. These two gents had come up to Carlisle from
Warrington, a good 90 minutes up the M6 at onehundredandsomething MPH,
and prior to returning had decided to fill up. Of course, one of them
had inadvertently pumped diesel into his tank, hadn't he? With WVM's
help, they had got most of it out, and were busy flushing some fresh
unleaded through it - although it was running, it sounded like a bag of
nails in a tumble drier. Hope he made it home.

I went to the same petrol station they had used, shortly afterwards. I
must say I had no problem finding the nozzle marked "Unleaded", although
it was for some arcane reason black, and the Low Sulphur Diesel nozzle
was green. This may explain the reason for the confusion, as I usually
go for the green nozzle myself, although I make sure it says "unleaded"
before squeezing the lever. Bastard petrol companies, eh?

 

Shouldn't have done it any harm, to be honest.

But I nearly did the same thing the other day. Why can't they go back to
using yellow nozzles for diesel? Some EU directive?

 

On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 00:53:38 +0100, Darren Robinson blathered on about:

[of petrol-related muppetry]

Was it a BP station with their new "Ultimate" re-branding? There was
a thread mentioning this on UKGSer in which someone had managed to
stick 22litres of diseasel into his bike (although in his case it was an
Esso station; go figure.)

As TOG sez, it shouldn't cause any lasting damage although may, possibly,
reduce the lifespan of any catalytic converter fitted. Filling a
diseasel vehicle with petrol, otoh, is another matter...

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Darren Robinson wrote in

snip <diesel in petrol tank>

There's a lot of it about. Some silly fucker on the GS forum did it a few
days ago too. Got 100 metres before it conked out.

 

S'not a problem on a company car...

 

Mum's b/f managed to put petrol in the diesel minibus, driving 5 miles
before he realised what he'd done. Thankfully it didn't cost too much to
fix, but needed new fuel filters and various other bits doing to it.

 

Ha ha been there, done there, had the P45.......)
Your right, so much more satisfying when it aint yer own.

Tone