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minimac wrote:I hope you pay more attention when you are driving than you do filling your tank.
Been using the right button for 92/93 for a decade now. It gets engrained into my brain after awhile. 
Especially when every car that i drive day in day out takes 92/93.
Ah well.
novaderrik wrote:every gas station around here has them different- they pretty much all have 3 grades of gas- 87, 89, and 91 octane.. 89 is always in the middle, but the 87 and 91 are in different positions at different stations.
you just learn to read the number on the big freakin yellow button you gotta push to select the gas you want..
are you also one of those people that can't be bothered to take note of which pump you are at, which causes me to have to stand in line behind you inside as you tell the cashier that you were in the "blue car out there" after they ask you which pump you are paying for?
Sorry to ruin your forum day, Francis.
This is honestly the first gas station i can EVER remember encountering that didn't have high test on the right hand side. I suppose maybe i should be apologizing to a couple of you for putting the wrong octane into MY car? (Not yours, i might clarify.)
Jeez... thread was meant to be humorous. I've already moved on and put 200 miles on the car since then. Situation averted. 
integraguy wrote:The handles on fuel pumps, by Federal and/or state regs should be, but are not, a different color for diesel. Especially where the pump has 2 nozzles: one for gas and an identical one for diesel. Yeah, I've come close to putting diesel in a Honda.
How did you get the nozzle to fit? Aren't diesel nozzles too big to fit into non diesel cars?
yup diesel nozzles are MUCH larger... and also BRIGHT GREEN... lol
around here the stations vary a lot... buttons are in different places, different sides etc...
Incorrect.
Diesel pumps at the tractor trailer pumps have much larger (and faster flowing) nozzles.
The nozzles at the standard auto pull-thrus are close enough to the same size that they will interchange in many cars.
And as I noted earlier, bright green is a brand color if you happen to be at a BP station. Regular gas pumps have bright green nozzles at BP stations.
SVreX wrote:Incorrect.
The nozzles at the standard auto pull-thrus are close enough to the same size that they will interchange in many cars.
Incorrect.
Diesel nozzles are larger than the old regular nozzles, which were larger than unleaded nozzles. Manufacturers put smaller fill holes in unleaded cars to keep people from putting in regular fuel by accident.
The clarifiers were "close enough" and "many".
I didn't say they weren't larger. I said they are not MUCH larger.
They are larger. But they still interchange with many vehicles.
The MUCH larger ones are in the truck aisles.
BTW- none of these will help the problem I described, since I put GAS in a DIESEL. ALL nozzles (including the large truck ones) will fit in the fill neck of an F-250.
DoctorBlade wrote:integraguy wrote:I thought I read a long, long LONG time ago that adding two DIFFERENT grades of gas, somehow got you a grade that was higher than the highest of the two? Example: adding 87 octane and 93 octane would get you something higher than 93. It was some article in C & D way back in the late '60s / early '70s just as unleaded was being phased in.
You'll get something between 87 and 93, actually. Some stations only get two grades of gas: 87 and 93, then they use a mix of the two for 89.
(anyone else watch Adam-12 reruns on TV Land just to see stations with 102 octane?)
Back in the olden days, you could do half leaded regular and half unleaded premium, and get a higher effective octane than unleaded premium alone. This is documented in one of the Cannonball Run movies, Dean Martin (IIRC) tells the gas station attendant, "Eh...she goes both ways".
4eyes wrote:DoctorBlade wrote:integraguy wrote:I thought I read a long, long LONG time ago that adding two DIFFERENT grades of gas, somehow got you a grade that was higher than the highest of the two? Example: adding 87 octane and 93 octane would get you something higher than 93. It was some article in C & D way back in the late '60s / early '70s just as unleaded was being phased in.
You'll get something between 87 and 93, actually. Some stations only get two grades of gas: 87 and 93, then they use a mix of the two for 89.
(anyone else watch Adam-12 reruns on TV Land just to see stations with 102 octane?)
Back in the olden days, you could do half leaded regular and half unleaded premium, and get a higher effective octane than unleaded premium alone. This is documented in one of the Cannonball Run movies, Dean Martin (IIRC) tells the gas station attendant, "Eh...she goes both ways".
Well if it was in a Hollywood movie it must be true.
I thought you bought an RX8
novaderrik wrote:every gas station around here has them different- they pretty much all have 3 grades of gas- 87, 89, and 91 octane.. 89 is always in the middle, but the 87 and 91 are in different positions at different stations.
you just learn to read the number on the big freakin yellow button you gotta push to select the gas you want..
are you also one of those people that can't be bothered to take note of which pump you are at, which causes me to have to stand in line behind you inside as you tell the cashier that you were in the "blue car out there" after they ask you which pump you are paying for?
Per Schroeder wrote:I thought you bought an RX8
DA DUM TISH!
The scariest pumps for me are the ones that have hoses for both gas and diesel at the same pump. Especially in NJ where they pump it for you. A couple of times I've had to go into slightly panicing rants to keep them from putting gas in my car. Fortunately, the stations I go to most of the time have the diesel pumps separate from the gas pumps.
