[Closed] PSA FuelSure device for diesel cars £14.99 + 3.99P&P

Those are of different design and vary between £30-£40

Quite expensive considering common sense is free 😆 Refuelling should be part of the driving test, anyone that takes more than 5 secs to decide what pump to pick up should be failed 😉

I put petrol in my Navara in a m6 service station when I was drunk.

I hear what you say about common sense. But if you happen to make small lapse of concentration and fill your car with wrong fuel ... then its AA or RAC time with a bill of £200+ to drain your tank.

What about other people owning petrol and diesel vehicles? And not to forget women.

What about women ?

we have these sort of devices on some of the ambulances (as some people can't remember that the entire fleet is diesel). Only problem, some diesel pumps don't fit well, therefore constantly activating the cut off. Takes aaaaaaaaaaaaaages to fill the tank when you can't put more than 200ml in without a big "clunk". Also, car missfueling is car darwinism in action.

What about other people owning petrol and diesel vehicles?

One of my cars is diesel the other is petrol, its pretty simple. Its like seeing a cyclist whilst driving and not running them over, if you're stupid you do it and if you're not you don't 😆

Not exactly rocket science is it 😉

I put petrol in my Navara in a m6 service station when I was drunk.

I hope you're a troll.

I got 2l in once, it was a long day but spotted it, just filled it up with the right fuel - It went quite well 🙂

I hope you're a troll.

unless he was eating cereal..

Misfueling can happen to anyone especially in the early hours of the morning, even when the entire fleet are diesel and you've not owned a petrol vehicle for years.

Mehaja has it though they're awful and can cause airlocks too easily meaning it takes age to fill the tank. Our service got around the misfile problem by going back to on site fuel, the money saved stopping misfiling over night was worth it alone. But the biggest shock was that buying in bulk and not from a fuel card from the most expensive supplier is cheaper.

I hope you're a troll.

Or the passenger?

I've had a tank full of 3 to 1 diesel/petrol mix in my T5 after an early morning brain fart at the petrol station. Just kept refilling with diesel, no problems.

What about women ?

My wife is getting driving license and soon will start driving car. She laughed at my suggestion of buying and installing it saying common sense reasons etc. She can get easily distracted by our kids, then boom put the wrong fuel in.

I always triple check for right nozzle when refuelling, those advertisments on nozzles are so big its easy to get confused and make a genuine mistake.

Interesting points mentioned about air locks etc, I thought about it too from discussions on honestjohn forums. Inventor of FuelSure was participating there and covered weak spots of different designs etc ( http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=78151)

At £30-£40 I would think about it but at under £19 worth a try.

I think its easy done when you have different cars.

I stupidly went into auto pilot putting fuel in the Polo and put about 80p worth of Diesel in before realising. Think its because I put £60 - £80 a week in the Fiesta at £20 a time I'm just so used to picking the Diesel pump up.

The Fiesta and most Fords these Days have special caps that can only take Diesel or Petrol that stop you mis fueling.

They don't have a screw on cap and on the Polo, Ive left the cap open and the screw on cap on the Roofrack, drove off and its blown off on the motorway 😳

I am now more careful.

I hope you're a troll.

Or the passenger?

Now don't you come here with your sensible insight

I've miss fuelled vehicles twice out of tiredness or duress. On both occasions the coloured coded pump handles had contrary coloured adverts on them - so the green petrol pump had a black mars advert on it and the black diesel had a green advert.

Ive left the cap open and the screw on cap on the Roofrack, drove off and its blown off on the motorway

I've arrived at a destination to find the [i]oil[/i] cap still balanced on the roof.

I put petrol in my Navara in a m6 service station when I was drunk.

He's always trolling. Not a real person. Note the vehicle is a gas guzzling 4x4 pick up.

He's always trolling. Not a real person.

I met him at Penmachno a long time ago, and he seemed real enough then. Riding a 456 IIRC.

We have one of those fancy flaps that comes as standard on new Fords on my wifes car. She seems to have problems filling it up at Sainsburys as apparently it keeps cutting out. She isn't the most mechanically sympathetic and I am yet to try it at sainsburys but it isn't a problem when I have filled it up at shell. I don't know if its the wife or the sainsburys pumps that are a problem.

I was a passenger. And yes zokes it was me.
The Navara was a works truck. Oh how my boss laughed at 3 am when the recovery truck wanted his credit card details to suck the fuel out.

We have one of those fancy flaps that comes as standard on new Fords on my wifes car. She seems to have problems filling it up at Sainsburys

My Mondeo has the same and as per the diagram inside the flap, you have to leave the pump handle low rather than holding it up otherwise it'll cut out. I use Sainsburys most of the time BTW.

In my last job as a highways engineer it always amazed me how many fuel filler caps you find at the side if the road. So forgetting to put it back on must be pretty common.
I like to think I have plenty of common sense but I still double check I'm using the right nozzle.

I have never even noticed the diagram. It might explain why I have never had a problem as thats how I generally insert it.

I can only see this sort of thing getting more common, as the task of driving geta further relegated to a secondary (or tertiary) priority tbh.

Modern cars are now so easy to drive, quiet, comfortable, reliable and even direct you where you want to go. It is no longer necessary to think about Driving and the tasks that surround it. You don't even need to know how to get anywhere these days. So it is unsurprising, imo, that people fill up with the wrong fuel. Lets face it, if you aren't thinking about something, there is a good chance you'll get it wrong. Add in a "normal and repetitive" nature to that task and bingo, you have a recipe for mistake!

Unfortunately this carries on over to road safety as well, with people driving too fast, too close, and with poor observation. If you are a cyclist, this brings obvious dangers too (whereas you can slap a couple of modern cars together at really quite high speeds and just jump out, that isn't the case for the poor unprotected bicycle user.

And finally, excuses such as "I was tired" etc don't cut it with me. if you were too tired to read a label and identify the correct nozzle (out of a choice of two!) then you shouldn't be driving. Imagine how crap you're going to be at avoiding an unexpected situation like a pedestrian stepping into the street, where you are going to have to react in 250ms, and steer and brake 2 tonnes of car around them and everyone else.

So, that really brings me back to where i started, and that is the std of driving is falling rapidly, as it gets relegated to a secondary priority task for the vast majority of motorists. ;-(