BP Ultimate - confusing unleaded and diesel

[smillion]

Is it just me?

For the second time I have tried to fill up the E55 with diesel by accidently picking the BP Ultimate Diesel pump. Fortunately the E55 cannot accept the nozzel but its a worry.

I see BP Ultimate everywhere and forget that he green coloured flash advertising Ultimate applies to both unleaded and diesel.

Is it just me? Probably a reflection of middle age.

 

[Rashman]

Is it just me?

For the second time I have tried to fill up the E55 with diesel by accidently picking the BP Ultimate Diesel pump. Fortunately the E55 cannot accept the nozzel but its a worry.

I see BP Ultimate everywhere and forget that he green coloured flash advertising Ultimate applies to both unleaded and diesel.

Is it just me? Probably a reflection of middle age.

No, it's not just you.
It has caught many people off guard - almost me when I used to use BP Ultimate.

I have since been using V-Power and find it better.

 

[500E]

Very confusing. Use V-Power if you can, it'll be better for the E55. I heard Tesco's Ultimate fuel is suppost to be just as good, if not better.

 

[Smarties]

Same here, filled the Smart Brabus, and then had that sinking feeling when I noticed that Petrol and Diesel had the same branding....I had chosen the right one, but very poorly signed

 

[Rashman]

Very confusing. Use V-Power if you can, it'll be better for the E55. I heard Tesco's Ultimate fuel is suppost to be just as good, if not better.

V-Power all the way!

However, a friend of mine with a GT-R swears by Tesco fuel. He says he is very happy with the results.

But the episode of the "contaminated Tesco fuel tanker" scared me enough to never visit a Tesco forecourt!

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

For a while, BP were paying out regularly to fix cars which had been misfuelled due to the similar branding and confusing colour coding of their fuels.

Going back six or seven years, I new a guy who filled his brand new A4 with the wrong fuel. It cost several thousand to recover and put right, and BP refunded him in full without a fight.

 

[500E]

I'm sure BP have enough money to replace those cars that were filled with the wrong fuel, nevermind the damages caused to them!

 

[PXW]

I use ultimate in the 211. Never had a problem distinguishing petrol from diesel as I find the magic words 'Diesel' and 'unleaded' give me a big clue often supplemented by the black for the diesel and the green for the unleaded. Whilst BP used to pay out on these errors, I think that was generous of them; the fuel pump colouring is different across all petrol retailers, and unless the industry gets together to standardise (and why should they make it easier to use each others products?) then frankly I think it's down to the consumer to have a look rather than just act automatically

 

[GRAV888]

supplemented by the black for the diesel and the green for the unleaded.

Green? Surely blue?

 

[PXW]

Green? Surely blue?

Was thinking of the pipes, but yes

 

[crockers]

I use ultimate in the 211. Never had a problem distinguishing petrol from diesel as I find the magic words 'Diesel' and 'unleaded' give me a big clue often supplemented by the black for the diesel and the green for the unleaded. Whilst BP used to pay out on these errors, I think that was generous of them; the fuel pump colouring is different across all petrol retailers, and unless the industry gets together to standardise (and why should they make it easier to use each others products?) then frankly I think it's down to the consumer to have a look rather than just act automatically

Green? Surely blue?

Was thinking of the pipes, but yes

Nice to see NO confusion then.............

 

[richard]

I thought diesel nozzle wouldnt fit in a petrol fiiller (as its bigger) (which is what I suspect has saved Smillion embarrasment and would have saved Smarties the same.

Of course this means the smaller petrol nozzle fits in a diesel filler - unless you have something magic like the BMW diesel filler "hole" that has some extra metal in it to prevent you putting too smaller nozzle in

R

 

[smillion]

I thought diesel nozzle wouldnt fit in a petrol fiiller (as its bigger) (which is what I suspect has saved Smillion embarrasment and would have saved Smarties the same.

As in my OP.

And that is EXACTLY what saved me. I couldn't get the nozzle in . I would have merrily filled up were it not for different nozzle sizes.

I don't envy the diesel driver cos it doesn't work like that.

Marc

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

I don't envy the diesel driver cos it doesn't work like that.

Most like a reflection of the fact that when the pump nozzle standards were introduced, diesel fuelled cars were in the minority, and so protection for the majority was far more important.

 

[PXW]

Nice to see NO confusion then.............

None whatsoever I just pull up at the pump, pick up the darker coloured nozzle, having first glanced at it to check it has the magic word 'diesel' on it. I have really never had a problem at BP, but some of those other service stations, especially the orange and red ones, are dead confusing

(p.s. am biased having spent 15 years working for the yellow-and-greens...)

 

[elpeterol]

Unfortunately I put BP ultimate petrol in my diesel!!! Luckily realised before I drove the car but BP are definitely the worst. They wouldn't pay out so it cost me a bit to sort out.

 

[Baron_Samedi]

Maybe its BP's way of keeping the visually challenged off the road....

 

[Sp!ke]

My father (who worked for BP for 35 years) has done this twice with BP ultimate.

The last time it happened, the AA were so busy sorting other people that had done the same thing that the two specialist recovery vehicles in London that perform this specific task were booked up solid for 5 days.

My local mobile mechanic friend ended up doing the job of sorting out the mess for considerably cheaper than the supposed discounted AA members price.