How does Ford's easy fill caps work?

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  1. LDR

    LDRed Well-Known Member

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    I can't remember the exact name for it, but it's their new innovation so you can't fill a diesel car with petrol and vice versa.

    How does it work?

    Ta.
     
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    I think its the width of the nozzle

    I think that diesel and petrol pumps have different widths to their nozzles and the fuel cap has a valve that only opens up with the right width nozzle inserted. Or I might be talking rubbish again
     
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    I love the radio advert for that.</p>

    Retards put the wrong fuel in their car. We have built a car for retards. You are a retard. Buy a ford!
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    It's one tube within another.

    </p>

    The petrol pump is the same size as one of them and therefore won't go in, the diesel pump will fit between them. Vice-versa for the petrol version.</p>

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    I tend to find basic reading skills and colour recognition helps when putting fuel in a car.
     
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    Agreed, I rely on the old

    Not being an utter feckwit system.

    Must be a truly wnak car if the headline marketing is about how you can't put the wrong fuel in. Chuff me
     
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    Farnham_Red Administrator Staff Member Admin

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    There is also a very old and true saying about how hard it is to make something foolproof

    Fools are so ingenious - I bet someone still manages it somehow.

    Arnt "leaded" petrol pumps - the old 4 star type still the same size as a diesel nozzle?
     
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    RE: There is also a very old and true saying about how hard it is to make something foolproof

    leaded pumps???? - I'm going to show ignorance now but I can't recall seeing one for years - not that I actually look!.

    I had a circular from the AA last week about joining up and it suggested 173 thousand people put the wrong fuel in their car each year and call the AA - seemed ridiculously high. On the basis that they reckon that there are about 20 million cars on the road, they are saying that 1 in every 115 of them gets the wrorng fuel put in each year, and thats just the ones that call out the AA when they do!!.


    If the RAC quoted a similar number, plus others that go to local garages etc, then it mayt be about 1 in 50!. Can't be right, surely?
     
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    Is that the system that was on Dragon's Den?

    Or did Ford develop their own?

    Do I care? Probably not.
     
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    From what I can gather...

    </p>

    ...the Dragon's Den one is retro-fit but the patent doesn't cover building the idea into new ones.</p>
     
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