The thing about driving a diesel is...

[Satty]

That when you're out of town and need to fill up the rental car you will put about a gallon of diesel in before you realize what you're doing.....

[Croc]

Oops.

[z28luvr01]

Aren't there diffrent nozzles to prevent that sort of thing from happening?

[Satty]

It's hit or miss in MO I guess because something similar nearly happened with the Fusion due to poor signage, but this gas station wasn't very up to date, I couldn't even pay at the pump. Oh well, I blame Enterprise for giving something as forgetable as an Impala. I'm sure it'll be fine.

[SAmadei]

You're considerably more optimistic than I would be.

Dad's cube van got a tank of diesel and whatever the mix ended up, the engine ran on it... in fact, he couldn't shut it off. At all. He limped back to the gas station and between the mechanic and my father's mechanical skills, they got the engine shut off... after a draining, it ran OK. Of course, that was back in the carb days... FI would have shut the engine off.

But knowing how much rental companies charge for simple things like lockouts, I'd had to give them back a car with any hint of diesel in it.... but that's me.

I'm really surprised that they have federally non-conforming nozzles out there. In my area, its unheard of. And NJ was real hardline about that tank filler size when we converted the Cutlass from Diesel to gas.

[Robert Hall]

Aren't there diffrent nozzles to prevent that sort of thing from happening?

I was under the impression that the different nozzles were for the other direction..i.e. preventing putting gasoline in a diesel.

[balthazar]

I only fill at the 'big truck' pumps- there the diesel nozzle is considerably larger than the gas nozzles.

[SAmadei]

Aren't there diffrent nozzles to prevent that sort of thing from happening?

I was under the impression that the different nozzles were for the other direction..i.e. preventing putting gasoline in a diesel.

Gasoline has the smaller nozzle, so putting gas in a large diesel filling neck is easily done... big Diesel nozzle into smaller gas filler, not so much. Anything is possible if you try hard enough.

[ocnblu]

lubrication

[Intrepidation]

Diesel pumps are usually different color around here. Gas pumps are black, Diesel is yellow or green, often has its own pumping station.