On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:03:51 +0100, Richard wrote:

wrote:


are you sure ?
even new diesels need thier plugs warmed first (and have a pigtail
light) ....

Neighbour's newish-jag which is powered by some awesome twin-turbo Vee
diesel does not have a glowplug symbol. He was warned (by Jaguar) that
if he inadvertently fills it with petrol he must _under no
circumstances_ even unlock the vehicle. Apparently it _does_ have some
sort of preheat system, but it commences as soon as the doors are
unlocked, thus there is no embarrassing pause once you have jumped into
your sleek executive conveyance!

You'd have thought that cars could have an RFID tag by the filler that
a reader in the pump nozzle would check.

Then the pump would stop and flash a light to tell the driver they're
about to make an expensive mistake!

Would be easy to retrofit to cars too, just stick the tag inside the
filler flap.

This sort of technology has been around on London Buses for a while in
the form of Oyster prepayment cards

cheers,
Pete.