Bongo Fury

northerntaff wrote:

mister munkey wrote:Only posh people in the New Shapes get that benefit.

The rest of us have to play Russian Roulette with the guage.

Hmmmnn! - Confused here. Mine's a Dec '97 'facelift' model and I remember having read something before I got it that said it didn't have a low fuel light...and now this comment from MM, but mine has got one.!!

So...is it the facelift models onwards or is mine a one off !!!!

Possibly yours was owned by Haydn when he was stationed in Japan? Just a thought

Muzorewa wrote:Ours is a '98 S, not a new shape and we have a low-fuel light. Still hasn't stopped me running it dry, either

Indeed!

Trouble at t'Mill says it won't ever happen again to MC

But I say, Trouble at t'Mill is an honourable man and almost right. But MC will run out 1 more time, as I did as a younger man (not that I'm calling MC a younger man you understand), and that will be when she thinks she can push it on a few miles even though the gauge is showing empty.

If I had noticed the guage was low and winged it it wouldn't be so bad - but I hadn't even noticed I was low - like I say - one of those weeks

Hi All

MobileCat given your week of troubles, getting the fuel wrong must have been so easy. What is amazing is that there is nothing to stop this happening, apart from someone remembering which fuel goes in what car.

Other systems have some sort of failsafe but petrol/diesel none. When I worked for a fairly clueless company with a fleet of mixed diesels and petrol we had several wrecked this way. Nothing on the cars to indicate to our non tecy salespeople and some guessed wrong. I got issued with a company wreck and realised when I went to fill it for the first time I had no idea what it ran on. Previous owner had left abandoning it in the car park and lost the handbook. Phoned boss who thought it might be a diesel, Fortunately I knew enough to realise it wasn't but it would have been so easy to get it wrong.

Mine is a petrol Bongo, but there is a plain grey filler cap and nothing to show what you fill it with. I have had funny looks at petrol stations and comments that was I sure it it wasn't a diesel from another Bongo owner.

Given the extent of the problem;Hampshire police spent something amazing last year on wrongly fuelled vehicles; why has the ingenious equivalent of Hayden not come up with something to prevent the tired, distracted and ignorant from repeatedly making this mistake.

I am sure all you experts will come up with very good reasons why this cannot happen. Over to you.

I have a feeling that is much more difficult (if not impossible) to put diesel into a modern petrol car, due to the narrowness of the filler?

That is certainly the case with my Toyota, but that may be becasue it is a car designed for the US market (it has a petrol vapour flap, for example)

But you can put a thin unleaded petrol nozzle in a wide diesel filler neck.

mikeonb4c wrote:Only posh people in the New Shapes get that benefit.

Surely you mean new people (us) in the posh shapes (The Tardis*), don't you Mike.

*(Anybody using that name, do you know? Thinking of buying some custom decals.)

Re "The Bongo Book" you've volunteered me for, am more than happy to tackle that as things stand but feel that I need to meet a lot more Bongonauts first, and get some Bongo touring/camping under my own belt, before I could make a good fist of it, Therefore, am thinking of it as a next winter project, when we may also be visiting my sister in Victoria (yes, out in the bush, surrounded by muck and bullets at the moment), and a diversion into Hiroshima could even be feasible - depends on funds, exchange rates, and the general economy at that time.

Meanwhile, we're meeting Kirsty missfixit70 down in Darset for dinner and a jaw in a week or three, so I'll hope to recruit her as my second researcher - you being the first one, of course

Need to get back to shuffling VINs, as I've now got another couple of samples to work with but I still need more - probably during this w/e.

Cheers

David

That was meant to be a PM! Oh well, never mind

Ron Miel wrote:

mikeonb4c wrote:Only posh people in the New Shapes get that benefit.

Surely you mean new people (us) in the posh shapes (The Tardis*), don't you Mike.

*(Anybody using that name, do you know? Thinking of buying some custom decals.)

That's it then. Decals ordered, "The Tardis" it is. Us Time Lords can't hang about

Ron Miel wrote:

Ron Miel wrote:

mikeonb4c wrote:Only posh people in the New Shapes get that benefit.

Surely you mean new people (us) in the posh shapes (The Tardis*), don't you Mike.

*(Anybody using that name, do you know? Thinking of buying some custom decals.)

That's it then. Decals ordered, "The Tardis" it is. Us Time Lords can't hang about

It was Mister Munkey who said that not me! But as we now know, it aint necessarily so. I'm sure a petrol warning system could easily be designed using a length of nichrome wire and passing a current through it so it glows red hot when the filler cap is removed. Passing diesel over it would merely douse it, but petrol would ignite and you'd know you'd got it wrong when your face was blasted off by the explosion before any serious damage was done to the engine .

Plenty more great ideas where that one came from and Oi, Haydn, don't nick my brill idea

mikeonb4c wrote:petrol would ignite and you'd know you'd got it wrong when your face was blasted off by the explosion before any serious damage was done to the engine .

...and I used completely the wrong type of fuel....

So it was Mike. I'm spending too much time on here, and becoming (even more) befuddled! Like your idea, as long as you test it there, not here

When it down to me to fill Bongo up I take her down't Mile Road, near us - they only have Diesel there and fill it up for me. I could see me easily doing doing the same thing .....

Back on thread - Dydo is now home safe and happy

mobilecat wrote:Back on thread - Dydo is now home safe and happy

Glad you are sorted Cath!!

Dabs

Hey Dabs I love the new emotiocons