Member Since: 27 Jun 2005
Location: All at sea
Posts: 496
SPOTTER wrote:
....or there is always the stick to the HGV pump option.
Also HGV pumps are often higher pumping capacity so you fuel up a lot quicker, minus is that often they do not have the auto-cutoff like a normal pump so you have to be careful getting near to a full tank if you don't want eau de diese! smelling hands and shoesNow a disillusioned new Land Rover buyer and have jumped ship to something less expensive and more reliable that hugs trees.... now driving a Mini Countryman PHEV as well as my trusty and brilliant 1996 Epsom Green Defender90 Tdi300
31st Jul 2009 10:58 pm
Popelka
Member Since: 31 May 2008
Location: Praha (Prague)
Posts: 2430
Discovery3Newbie wrote:
so we went to the petrol station and low and behold I had filled up with V-Power Unleaded. I was embarrassed
I had similar issue with shell BUT I did put diesel in however it was the V-power diesel, when I checked the pump (after paying) I realised that they are in order of value from left to right and considering we read left to right was under the impression that this was done for profit.
I was lucky and only had the fuel bill BUT it does show us that when we are at the pumps to be EXTRA CAREFUL regardless of fuel type, they only want our money. Experience is a difficult teacher, because she gives the test first and then the lesson afterwards!!!!
1st Aug 2009 10:55 am
Discovery3Newbie
Member Since: 26 Jan 2009
Location: Middlesex
Posts: 20
I went back to the same Shell garage at the weekend, and could see loads of V-Power signs (diesel or unleaded not mentioned). I then went to evey pump and they were all V-Power Unleaded, they had no V-Power diesel. Does it actually exist?
3rd Aug 2009 12:20 pm
Ken
Member Since: 20 Feb 2006
Location: Here
Posts: 10865
Yes it does one deff in Taplow
3rd Aug 2009 12:23 pm
SPOTTER
Member Since: 06 Dec 2006
Location: Adrift........
Posts: 3095
Yup it does
not every garage has every type; merrily pulled intoa TOTAL garage on Saturday to put some Excellium in but there was none.
Very annoying, why can't they tell you before you make the effort to pull in end of an era ....... maybe a Defender when it appears.......
"It needs to indicate that it's excellent fuel"
"But we need to make it sound technical and science-y"
"Well I remember from Chemistry O-Level that lots of elements end with -ium and my expensive Oakleys are made from Unobtainium"
"OK - 'Excellium' it is; one of the leggy birds on reception can type up an invoice on the Mac whilst we hit the Groucho!"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana
Why are diesel and petrol supply points mixed together?
Because when diesel became more popular as a road fuel for passenger vehicles, the motorists complained that they had to fill-up at the smelly old HGV pumps which were out of the way and often didn't have the weather protection of the forecourt.
There's just no pleasing some people...... The older I get, the more I realise that people confuse wrinkles for wisdom
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3rd Aug 2009 1:32 pm
mzplcg
Member Since: 23 Jun 2009
Location: Gone
Posts: 1087
JMC wrote:
Because when diesel became more popular as a road fuel for passenger vehicles, the motorists complained that they had to fill-up at the smelly old HGV pumps which were out of the way and often didn't have the weather protection of the forecourt.
And back there is where it belongs too. Nasty, greasy, smelly stuff. Instead we have to put up with the puddles of it on the ground right by the petrol pump I want to use. So despite having a petrol car I still get that awful stuff in my carpets in a kind of proxy fashion through no fault of my own.
Why, over 40 years after we put a man on the moon, can someone not develop a sealed fuel delivery gun (a - la LPG filler style) for diesel? I don't mind the engines but it's the mess I find most offputting.
Fortunately my local Total station has 2 "petrol only" pumps
3rd Aug 2009 7:53 pm
AndrewW
Member Since: 06 Aug 2007
Location: Saddleworth
Posts: 2302
I confess I have only driven 32,000 miles in a Diesel vehicle but I have not yet spilt ONE drop of the (expensive) stuff neither on the car, on me or on the forecourt. . It's too smelly and 'orrible.
But I HAVE stepped in it whilst filling up.
For safety's sake I'm off to the wild, smelly untamed HGV pumps - but 'ANG ABAHT!! - I've just spent £7 on a Halfords chip that shouts at me AND £30 on a Fuel Angel. So I can brave the marketing confusion of BP, Shell and Total with complete confidence. I think 2006 D3 finally swapped for a 2016 D4 Graphite in Graphite grey. No mods
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