Diesel filling pump newbie - what am I doing wrong?

fields5069

OK, I searched the internet looking for advice, but I'm stumped. I have a diesel hire car at the moment, a Jaguar XE, and I can't for the life of me get a good flow going from a diesel pump. It cuts off with the slightest finger pressure on the "trigger". The nozzle also doesn't seem to go very far into the neck of the fuel tank. Do I need to try to force it in further? It just seems to come to a hard stop. I need to have the nozzle most of the way out to get any flow at all.

Help!

BRISTOL86

fields5069 said:

OK, I searched the internet looking for advice, but I'm stumped. I have a diesel hire car at the moment, a Jaguar XE, and I can't for the life of me get a good flow going from a diesel pump. It cuts off with the slightest finger pressure on the "trigger". The nozzle also doesn't seem to go very far into the neck of the fuel tank. Do I need to try to force it in further? It just seems to come to a hard stop. I need to have the nozzle most of the way out to get any flow at all.

Help!

Sounds like a fault of the fuel tank neck or the nozzle rather than anything you’re doing wrong! I’m not sure there’s a particular technique!

fields5069

BRISTOL86 said:

fields5069 said:

OK, I searched the internet looking for advice, but I'm stumped. I have a diesel hire car at the moment, a Jaguar XE, and I can't for the life of me get a good flow going from a diesel pump. It cuts off with the slightest finger pressure on the "trigger". The nozzle also doesn't seem to go very far into the neck of the fuel tank. Do I need to try to force it in further? It just seems to come to a hard stop. I need to have the nozzle most of the way out to get any flow at all.

Help!

Sounds like a fault of the fuel tank neck or the nozzle rather than anything you’re doing wrong! I’m not sure there’s a particular technique!

Cheers, I didn't think so either. I've had diesel cars before, just not for 6 years or so. It happened on different pumps too, all at a Sainsbury's. I'm guessing the neck of the tank, maybe I should peruse the Jag manual.

fields5069

Hmm, maybe the misfuelling protection devcice is partially deployed or something, there should be a resetting tool in the boot. I shall investigate!

DefaultM

I just stick it in and keep going til it can take no more...

axisus

some nozzles are faulty. Bloody annoying when you get one. I usually find that an incredibly light touch, just enough to get the flow starting works best

RiftAmps

Common problem, when the nozzle is inserted you need to provide downward pressure on the handle to help angle the tip upwards, if that makes sense?

Also happens to most JLR or Ford diesel vehicles manufactured after March 2008 - they all share the same anti-syphon and wrong fuel-nozzle technology.

JAYJO

Put some hair around the neck of the fuel tank Itll soon go in.

fields5069

RiftAmps said:

Common problem, when the nozzle is inserted you need to provide downward pressure on the handle to help angle the tip upwards, if that makes sense?

Also happens to most JLR or Ford diesel vehicles manufactured after March 2008 - they all share the same anti-syphon and wrong fuel-nozzle technology.

Aha, thanks, that makes sense, the misfuelling thingy comes down from the top of the neck. I'll try the reset tool as well.

ICBM

It's just God's way of telling you not to use the Fuel Of Satan.













Years ago my Dad had a (petrol) Vauxhall Astra that had some sort of problem like that, it would take about 20 minutes to fill the tank and really piss off anyone waiting behind him. If I remember rightly it was caused by a kink in the filler pipe when it had been installed. Vauxhall wouldn't fix it because that would have required changing the whole petrol tank, which was a huge job and they didn't accept that it was a serious enough issue.

boogieman

Just a thought but you’re sure it’s actually a diesel, right? It does sound like the misfuelling device is kicking in. 

fields5069

boogieman said:

Just a thought but you’re sure it’s actually a diesel, right? It does sound like the misfuelling device is kicking in. 

I checked about 10 times. Big yellow cap, with "diesel" written on it, and an engine which sounds like it belongs on a farm!

boogieman

fields5069 said:

boogieman said:

Just a thought but you’re sure it’s actually a diesel, right? It does sound like the misfuelling device is kicking in. 

I checked about 10 times. Big yellow cap, with "diesel" written on it, and an engine which sounds like it belongs on a farm!

Yeah, that sounds like a diesel all right. 

VimFuego

had something like that on my hyundai, depending on where I took it. I just used to slightly pull the nozzle out and that seemed to work. I got adept at hearing when it was about to fill, so could stop just short of splashback.

blobb

Debris in the filler tube? Worth checking, just get up close and peer into the filler pipe. It's a bit dark in there so you may need some illumination while you do it, nothing hefty required. A match should do the trick.

Paul_C

Unless it's hot enough you could drop the match into the diesel and all it would do is go out.

57Deluxe

try pumping some unleaded in and see if that makes a difference...

AlexC

A thread about faulty nozzles! (Giggles childishly)

Dominic

our Petrol voyager always did this
Try putting nozzle in then withdrawing so it's only just in and let fuel flow slowly

Maynehead

When this happens to me I just pull it out slightly and the fuel will flow freely again.

fields5069

It was the misfuelling device thingy. I used the supplied tool and that sesee to have done the trick. Cheers for all the advice.