I've been driving diesels for 10 years.When I take my car to the dealer for repair or for a "free" oil change I always ask for a diesel loaner.I used to get one occasionally but no longer. They tell me they don't loan out diesels any more because people were putting gas in them.
Whenever I let family or friends drive my car I very firmly state that they're not to fill it up...even if they do so out of gratitude.I always make sure the tank is full or close to full before they drive off.
Then BP service stations have a very helpful system for those who want to put gasoline in their diesel vehicles.
They have a green handle on the gas pump, just like all the other diesel pumps. Except, they’re not diesel of course.
I hear ya.
I have had people come up to me at the station when filling up that VW and tell me that I was putting diesel into that Bug.
I would laugh and say, yup, it runs better on diesel.
Put over 400 thousand on that thing. The dam plastic body just came apart and we got rid of it. I wish we would have had that thing completely redone at a body shop now.
Just drive a big one ton that rolls coal all over, then they won’t get mistaken heh.
My dad was pretty mad last time he took his car and myself in my truck and we took the family up in the mountains in southern BC. After we got back to Hope, he had to fill up his hybrid Toyota Camry, and I was still over 3/4, he looks at my dash and it said 7.8/100. That’s over 30 MPG and better than he got heh. I’m also 10,000lbs with a sled deck and full load of tools etc. He thinks he got ripped off now. I told him to stay away from electric.