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[Mrs Cakey]

Most of my sales rep and accountant neighbours have a few times

That's the main culprits according to statistics.

Happens more often that we think. 1 every 3-4 minutes nationwide

  Really that many  :-? :-? :-?

Yep Amazing how many people still manage to put Diesel into a petrol (considering the nozzle doesn't fit ) but normally the other way around due to the modern Diesel being so much more quiet and refined

[dbug]

Voted nevr Mrs C - have you?

[Stallion]

although iv put down (no never) gotta say have seen a fair share of people doing that and forking out alot of money (while being in car rentals).
Still remember this weeked 10 brand new 08 reg focus diesels were deliverd, 8 come back on recovery trucks, with wrong fuel put in...
(although keyring, fuel flap and on dash had big diesel sticker) 

[Mrs Cakey]

Voted nevr Mrs C - have you?

Not personally, but I lots of people who have (and even more who nearly have!), some of them several times

I know someone who has done it to every car he's owned as well as a few he's borrowed

[Brikhead]

I've never put the wrong fuel into a vehicle but then I used to drive a diesel van for a living so I'm used to swapping between different pumps.
I've spent the last six months working as a mobile mechanic and have had to pump out the wrong fuel on three different vehicles so far!

[TheBoy]

I fail to understand how, but I do know someone who has.

If people are that distracted when Fuelling, what are they like when they are driving. Scary.

[Auto Addict]

I fail to understand how, but I do know someone who has.

If people are that distracted when Fuelling, what are they like when they are driving. Scary.

My brother-in-law managed to put petrol in a diesel, his last five cars have been diesel

[Richie London]

if they changed the pump nozzle to square and round depending on what fuel wouldn't be a problem. quite a good idea i think. if you have an old car you buy an adapter to slot on pump

[Andy B]

3 different cars & each has different fuel. Diesel Astra, 95 Ron in the Omega & 98 Ron in her Smart, never been tempted to put the wrong fuel in any of them. 

[Del Boy]

Done it in my Astra 1.7 DTi before, put a fivers worth of unleaded in, put £10 worth of diesel in afterwards, it was fine  Not done it since luckily.

[Andy B]

.... put a fivers worth of unleaded in, put £10 worth of diesel in afterwards, ...

Last of the big spenders ............ 

[The Red Baron]

never done it myself, but drained many a citroen bx when i worked for citroen.

[bigboykarl]

twice  .......once in a works ford galaxy ..i had my own ford galaxy petrol at the time and must have been on autopilot..second time i had a citroen c8 i had finished work in london at 7.am after a 12 hour night shift driven home to barnsley..not gone to bed and at 3.pm after getting a call from my daughter went to pick her up stopped for fuel and fatigue got the better of me

[Entwood]

Not done it myself.... but did have the wrong fuel put in once ......  12000 ltrs of AVGAS (Aviation Gasolene)  that should have been AVTUR (Aviation Turbine Fuel).... now that took some sorting out ...  and it wasn't even a nice place to be stuck in ...

Some very embarrassed ground crew on that one...

[Andy B]

... that should have been AVTUR (Aviation Turbine Fuel).... .....

So what's AVTUR like then? The only turbines I've ever worked on had super heated steam (550psi 850^oF) going through them.