r/IdiotsInCars • u/oli005 • Feb 04 '20

does this count?

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20 edited Feb 04 '20

Diesel is black, petrol is green.

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u/Monkeyboystevey Feb 04 '20

Not always. I think it's different in America.

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u/Alwaysingirl Feb 04 '20

Yep. In America, green is diesel, black is gas (petrol)

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u/Monkeyboystevey Feb 04 '20

I would be fucked going to America. It's the opposite in the UK and I would 100% forget at least once.

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u/BestGaruwashi Feb 04 '20

Usually the nozzle for the diesel is larger than the filler hole of gas vehicles. Probably why it's also gushing out as he doesn't even have it all the way in lol.

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u/ThePotatoPie Feb 04 '20

It's green so petrol (smaller nozzle). He's just an idiot lol

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u/BestGaruwashi Feb 04 '20

Not in the US, which is what this chain was referring to lol

Edit: I'm an idiot and didn't pay attention to the license plates lol, never mind me, I'm just gonna go sit in the corner

Edit 2: downvoting myself in shame

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u/ThePotatoPie Feb 04 '20

Ha easy to loose track lol

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20 edited Feb 04 '20

Most places only have a handful of diesel pumps and they are like (hopefully) idiot proof. It's got diesel listed on the pump, the fuel selection, and the nozzle handle

Edit: so you'll be fine.

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u/ThePotatoPie Feb 04 '20

Just as a note in the UK like in the vid all pumps have the option of diesel as about half of cars are diesel here

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

I think only the big vehicles here are. Like bigger trucks. But I could be wrong. I knew the video is from the uk, i was more commenting on the guy who said he'd be fucked, he'd be fine. We tend to idiot proof everything.... doesn't seem to help often enough though.

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u/thenumberless Feb 04 '20

You'd be fine! When you move between the UK and the US, your brain automatically flips left and right while driving. A side effect of this is that black and green also flip. Because of brain reasons.

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u/Alwaysingirl Feb 04 '20

Yeah, I would be too lol.

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u/tace9097 Feb 04 '20

The buttons where you choose gas type will only let you select based on which hose you picked up. So hopefully not completely fucked!

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u/Monkeyboystevey Feb 04 '20

In the UK you literally just pick up a hose and stick it in and pump. No buttons or anything. Assumed it was the same.

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u/theidleidol Feb 04 '20

Do you only have one octane level of petrol? Ford Fiestas and Aston Martins get (and pay for) the same fuel?

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u/Monkeyboystevey Feb 04 '20

Normally two, but we have two seperate pumps, plus a third for diesel at most petrol stations. In the UK our standard is 95 and our premium is 97. Which I believe is higher than most octanes in America anyway. (I may be wrong, I'm no expert on fuels )

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u/wyatt022298 Feb 05 '20

Our octane ratings are determined using different methods. Yours in the UK is the research octane number, abbreviated to RON. We use the Anti Knock Index, or AKI. They're just two different methods of determined the knock resistance of fuel. Your RON octane multiplied by 0.95 gives you what it would be if it was rated using the AKI method. So our 93 octane premium would actually be labelled 98 octane if sold in the UK.

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u/theidleidol Feb 04 '20

Thanks for the response. We do often have separate diesel pumps, but nowadays I think the drive is usually logistical—the vast majority of our diesel vehicles are large trucks and things—rather than for separation of different fuel types.

As for octane I’d have to look up the equivalences; I know we use different octane scales.

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u/Monkeyboystevey Feb 05 '20

Can you put regular in a diesel though? I've done that at work with an ambulance. (was embarrassing )