All my life I‘ve been paranoid about accidentally putting the wrong fuel in my cars and it turns out THAT’S NOT EVEN POSSIBLE ANYMORE because they made the diesel nozzles bigger, so they won’t fit
Why do anxieties inherited from my dad not update themselves 🙃🙃🙃
@fasterthanlime When unleaded gas became a thing, the nozzles were made smaller and the smaller hole was there at the top of the filler so you could not stuff the leaded filler in there and wreck the catalytic converter.
...and I watched someone carefully trickle leaded gas into the filler around the restrictor plate, presumably because it was cheaper.
I swear to God half of resolving anxieties is just doing threat modeling, like, really asking yourself the question: “OK, in the worst possible scenario what actually happens?”
@fasterthanlime my therapist would play this game with me and when I would actually explain the absolute worst case I would feel so dang silly…. very effective technique, +1
@fasterthanlime I don't understand how this works and I can't find any clear explanation, it is driving me crazy.
Also, too bad the simpler "bigger nozzle for diesel" is implemented this way around, since petrol in a diesel is a bigger problem than diesel fuel in a petrol engine.
@fasterthanlime Your car doesn’t start, a zombie outbreak starts, you cannot flee, you get half-eaten and become a zombie yourself. Or, your car doesn’t start, a Justin Bieber show starts at the gas station, you cannot flee, you end up with a dedicated Justin Bieber tattoo on your bum. Fuel is scary business…
@fasterthanlime right! And don't forget to do an incident review after the fact, do some root cause analysis, and be kind to all present by reminding everyone of the Prime Directive:
"Regardless of what we discover, we understand and truly believe that everyone did the best job they could, given what they knew at the time, their skills and abilities, the resources available, and the situation at hand."
@fasterthanlime@thejpster When you’re done here the liquid fuel nozzles will look like the EV charging plugs with wild shapes sprouting half a dozen pipes and electrical contacts 🤣
My recollection of the history is when cars requiring unleaded fuel came out, the fuel filler neck was made smaller, and unleaded pumps used a smaller nozzle. You could use unleaded in older cars and it was mostly ok, but not the other way round. The diesel nozzle is the same larger size as the old leaded gas one.
@fasterthanlime@thejpster there is a solution and the name is SoloDiesel. I saw it in my local Volkswagen shop many years ago, and after a search it seems to still exist.