I recently pulled into a Mobil gas station, grabbed the green handle pump, and proceeded to put 23 gallons of regular gas in my 1999 F250 diesel. Two questions:
1) I've driven diesels for 25 years now, and this is the first time I've seen any fuel other than diesel with green pump handles. I thought this was some sort of standard?
2) I had all of the gas removed and changed the fuel filter. It's running fine now. Any long term damage or other things I should check? (I only drove for about a mile after it became apparent something was amiss)

 

One of my techs did this to his company truck a while back. We had our mechanic go out and drain the tank and he said it should be fine. That was about 30,000 miles ago and still no problems. Hope you are just as fortunate.

Paul

 

Shows you how much I pay attention, I thought they were orange!

 

I think your right about their being a standard on the colors. I'll check and see if I can find something. In the mean time, you might want to get a few pictures of the station and the funky colored nozzle.

 

Go down to your Ford dealer and ask them for a couple bottles of lubricity additive. Put two in your tank now and maybe one in your next tank of fuel. This will protect your injectors from any scuffing.


"An ounce of prevetion is worth a pound of cure"

 

Howdy,

For some reason Mobil has there diesel pumps yellow.
The rest of the world has green handels for diesel but not Mobil.
I almost made the same mistake last year at a Mobil station, but I caught myself before I started pumping it full of regular.



Gr8ride

 

I avoid Mobil like the plague, the idiots cost me $200 buck cause they don't winterize their fuel. I go to HESS in the local area, you can smell the kerosene in their diesel. Plus Mobil/Exxon is the biggest importer of middle eastern oil. Bouycott them if you can.

 

10-4 on the green handle deal I pulled up to one last week grabbed it hit the button then I relized thay had unleaded & diesel on the same pump and both were green . need less to say one close call

 

My mom almost did the same thing the one time she borrowed my truck. As far as i know you should be fine..

 

I've seen a few of these blunders. One we had ended up needing some new injectors after around 10,000 miles. Its really fun getting rid of 50+ gallons of gas with a little diesel mixed with it. (55 gallon tanks) We would add 5 gallons of it to gas engine tanks each fill untill its all gone. It won't hurt a gas engine unless the diesel content is too high, then it would make them start a little harder.

 

When I was in Europe last year, the green handles were for regular gas, and I think black was diesel. I put about 4 liters of gas into our diesel rental. I drove it that way because I had little choice in the matter. It sure lost a lot of power! I did inform the guy at the rental counter when we turned it in that day. He said not to worry - it happens regularly!

Reggie

 

I stoped at a truckstop on my way home from Waco a couple weeks ago. I went up to the Automotive pump and found a green, yellow, orange and black handled pumps

WHAT THE HECK IS THIS? I thought. I always see diesel pumps as green or yellow, this place the diese was the black pump?

Just gotta pay attention.