Stop Petrol in Diesel tank

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Mungo \"two sheds\" Toadfoot" saying something like:

There already is on the market a useful device which prevents the wrong fuel or oil being used.

Everybody's got one.

The message from Grimly Curmudgeon contains these words:

Eh? I ain't got a Harry Enfield who stands behind me and says "You don't want to do it like /that/".

The pump spouts are different sizes today - unleaded is smaller diameter than diesel

The diesel pump does not fit the tank of an unleaded car. So that's half the problem solved.

Ford has invented a device which requires the pump 'spout' to press a ring down (and which the unleaded spout wont trigger). So that will be the other half of the problem solved. Due to be fitted to the next generation Mondeo I'm told.

I just hope that Ford make it available to other manufacturers!

I'm sure they will - for a fee.

I suppose that will be a good idea if the rest of the filler neck is designed to work efficiently. Hands up all of you who have/have had a car which will only fill if you get the position of the nozzle "just right" - any other place it cuts out constantly? Rover 218 was a bugger for that, and several of my other cars too.

The message from Chris Bolus contains these words:

Several, though my Audi is better than most I've had it's still not perfect.

I'm amused because the word "stop" in Danish can mean 'put' as in "Stuff Petrol in Diesel Tank".

Johannes wrote on Fri, 09 Dec 2005 19:32:52 GMT:

Neither "stop" nor "put" appear in that phrase, so I'm a bit confused.

GMT:

The subject line. "Stuff Petrol in Diesel Tank" is a back-translation of the Danish: "Stop benzin i Diesel tanken".

Zog The Undeniable ( snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Not even to the cat?