You shouldn't laugh but!!!

**Tobytyke** · 14 Jun 08, 05:50 PM

Had a ride to DM today, first time, nice shop well impressed, anyway it turns out that some lucky/unlucky guy (somebody must know who it is!!) picked his D16RR up last week and it was "transported" back to the workshop today, he'd only gone and filled it up with diesel , rumour has it he was distracted while talking to his mates!!!

Now I know I call my bike The Tractor but I don't think she'd take kindly to being fed the old cooking oil. The good news is the RR's up & running OK, a few coughs & splutters and a whole lotta smoke but once she'd cleared her throat she sounded gorgeous.

**Pax** · 14 Jun 08, 06:28 PM

Its a very easy mistake to make and one I have every sympathy with

Help! - Possible fuelling woe on Ducati 900ss

**alan 999s** · 16 Jun 08, 05:50 PM

Would have been cheaper to fill up with petrol!

**Nathan Lee** · 14 Jul 08, 02:46 AM

I am ashamed to say I have done the same thing...Differant bike though!

Its that moment when you realize what you've done and still have to pay for it that sucks! I'm not even colour blind.

**Steve GD** · 14 Jul 08, 04:22 AM

Interestingly I noticed yesterday that my local Tesco filling station has an ad on the counter advertising the services of a company which will fix just this problem, should you be distracted enough to fall into this trap.

**Paivi** · 14 Jul 08, 09:54 AM

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Originally Posted by alan 999s

Would have been cheaper to fill up with petrol!

Not in London it wouldn't have...£1.25 per litre is the highest I've seen.

**AndyH** · 16 Jul 08, 05:57 AM

Well at least the internals got a good lubricating

**OllyA** · 02 Aug 08, 07:52 PM

Why they never made the nozzles on the pumps a different shape with petrol/diesel is beyond me-the tank on the car/bike could be the same shape, therefore impossible to fill up with the wrong fuel-simple!

**swannymere** · 02 Aug 08, 09:42 PM

The nozzles on petrol pumps are smaller than those on diesel pumps and petrol cars usually have a restrictor where you put the pump nozzle into the filler neck, most bikes don't. It would help if all fuel pumps were the same colour, Sainsbury's use yellow for derv whilst Shell use Blue and others use black.

**998gsb** · 02 Aug 08, 11:02 PM

Its easy done - particularly with modern forecourts with about 4 variants of petrol and super duper petrol and more recently diesel and super duper diesel.

As an aside to this thread.... whilst in Europe the other week we discovered V POWER PLUS MAX and other fuel companies flogging a similar brew - 100 Octane not 98 - it doesn't smell like petrol and smells very similar to AVGAS which light aircraft use - the bikes loved it - they were like missiles!! Haven't seen it over here at all anywhere - anyone know why we dont get it in the UK apart from at Aerodromes!!

**Jolley** · 03 Aug 08, 06:51 AM

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Originally Posted by 998gsb

As an aside to this thread.... whilst in Europe the other week we discovered V POWER PLUS MAX and other fuel companies flogging a similar brew - 100 Octane not 98 - it doesn't smell like petrol and smells very similar to AVGAS which light aircraft use - the bikes loved it - they were like missiles!! Haven't seen it over here at all anywhere - anyone know why we dont get it in the UK apart from at Aerodromes!!

I also found this, in Germany on my way back from a boarding holiday in Austria. The Impreza loved it.... and despite the Autobahn speeds I actually got better mileage out of it!

**851corsa** · 03 Aug 08, 04:30 PM

A dealer might say that rather than 'we messed it up when we serviced it'

**BaggaZee** · 03 Aug 08, 10:41 PM

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Originally Posted by 998gsb

Its easy done - particularly with modern forecourts with about 4 variants of petrol and super duper petrol and more recently diesel and super duper diesel.

As an aside to this thread.... whilst in Europe the other week we discovered V POWER PLUS MAX and other fuel companies flogging a similar brew - 100 Octane not 98 - it doesn't smell like petrol and smells very similar to AVGAS which light aircraft use - the bikes loved it - they were like missiles!! Haven't seen it over here at all anywhere - anyone know why we dont get it in the UK apart from at Aerodromes!!

BP Ultimate, 102 Octane. I've found it in a few places and I like it! A tank definitely lasts longer too.

**MC TOOL** · 04 Aug 08, 12:45 AM

yeah ! we ( me ) do that in NZ too ! What a day that was , distracted ( so Im blameless?) by the lad at the fuel station drooling over MY bike , and grabbed the wrong handle , the fact that I noted that the handle was the wrong colour didnt even slow me down, and what really ****ed me off is that the afore mentioned lad obviously twigged to what I was doing , stood there smirkin his face off, said nothing ...... the little sea you en tea . I got , maybe 1 km up the road , heading AWAY from home , sudden loss of power , heaps of smoke.... I really thought Id just chundered the motor , but with no oil light on there was some hope . Pushed it home ( why is it that when you have to push the thing home , all your friends , especially the ones WITHOUT ducati's , drive past ?) where the correct diagnosis was ( eventually ) made . Wont do that again !