Car help?

[lifetime fan]

Right, as fucking stupid as this sounds how do I tell if a car runs on petrol or deisel?

 

I've borrowed a mates banger, (Nissan Rasheen) and the fuel is almost completely gone and I need to fill it up. However I can not get hold of him and there are no fuel receipts in the car.

 

To add to it, any instructions in the fucking thing are written in Indian (I think) and i can't work out how to lift the bonnet.

 

Any ideas?

[Uncle_Meat]

Right, as fucking stupid as this sounds how do I tell if a car runs on petrol or deisel?

 

I've borrowed a mates banger, (Nissan Rasheen) and the fuel is almost completely gone and I need to fill it up. However I can not get hold of him and there are no fuel receipts in the car.

 

To add to it, any instructions in the fucking thing are written in Indian (I think) and i can't work out how to lift the bonnet.

 

Any ideas?

 

 

Start it up and smell the exhaust fumes.

 

Just the sound of the engine should be enough, really. How quickly it revs up, does it pull like a horse at tickover, does it sound "grannngy".

[lifetime fan]

Start it up and smell the exhaust fumes.

 

Just the sound of the engine should be enough, really. How quickly it revs up, does it pull like a horse at tickover, does it sound "grannngy".

 

Its that much of a fucking banger mate regardless of which fuel it ran on it'll sound fucking horrendous.

[Nick Leeson]

doesn't it say on the inside of the petrol cap or the area around it?

[Nick Leeson]

also if it's a diesel it might have a light on the dashboard to tell you when to start. As in when you turn it to second click a light will come on for about 3 seconds then go off to tell you it's ready. Think it's when the coils are warmed or some shit like that

[Guest The Chimp]

If it's a diesel it should be difficult to start the engine straight away. The main giveaway if it's a diesel should be on the dash. When you turn the key is there an amber light that comes on and then goes off about three seconds later. Diesel doesn't have spark plugs and uses "solonoids" (can't remember the right name), but they have to heat up usually. Diesel is also quite greasy - so that again might halp mate. Sorry, all I can think of at the mo.

[Guest The Chimp]

Sorry - didn't see the above reply when I sent mine.

[RJ Fan club]

Sound stupid I know but what is the engine size, often diesels are odd to petrol for example 1.5, 1.9's, where as petrols are often 1.2, 1.4, 1.6 1.8's.

 

You should be able to tell by the acceleration, engine noise and mid range poke in older models.

 

Diesels (older ones especially) are slow off the mark, with good mid range torque. They usually have a clattering noise tractor type opposed to a quieter and smoother petrol.

 

Also if the back tag has a "d" after the engine size its usually a diesel.

 

Besides syphoning off a fuel sample and burning it, you're fucked if none of that helps.

 

edit: chimps and others orange warm up light is a good tip too.

[lifetime fan]

Cheers lads, nothing inside the fuel flap apart from Indian writing.

 

I'll have a look at the light job now.

[Uncle_Meat]

Just use your schnozz. Nowt smells like a diseasel when it's running, or even when you stick your nose in the filler.

[bigmacbrownie]

Do you know the difference in smell to petrol and diesel? If so, take the cap off and smell it and see what it is. If you don't know the smell then take the cap off and take it to the pump and sniff up. You might look a twat but fuck it you get high in the process. :thumbup:

 

edit: UM beat me to it.

[lifetime fan]

One of you lot must be able to put a pic up of the orange light job that should show up.

[hamstrung]

Put petrol in it.

 

If it doesn't work, its probably diesel.

[She Knows It]

Does it sound like a taxi when the engine's running? That's how I tell.

[Uncle_Meat]

Google to the rescue. Probably...

 

http://www.worldwidecarparts.co.uk/index.php?option=categories&category_id=227858

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Rasheen

 

 

Both appear to imply (follow the engine code links from that wiki entry) that it was only ever petrol-powered.

[Big Ig]

Put chip oil in it.

[Victor Ganges]

 

If there is a yellow/amber lamp on the dash when you turn the key before the car starts with the same symbol as above, its diesel.

[G Richards]

Another quick way, even without putting the key in the ignition, is to check to see what it revs up to before the redline.

 

If it is about 4000 then it is diesel.

 

If it is 7-8000 then it is petrol.

 

(Diesels deliver their power/torque much lower down, which helps them to be much more economical).

[Caramac]

also if it's a diesel it might have a light on the dashboard to tell you when to start. As in when you turn it to second click a light will come on for about 3 seconds then go off to tell you it's ready. Think it's when the coils are warmed or some shit like that

...Glowplugs, thats what they are..........turn on ignition, glowplug light comes on for a second or two, when it goes out start engine and drive away.

[RedKnight]

Have you asked the car?

[bobhorse]

Just give it back to your mate with £20 and save yourself all the bother

[bigmacbrownie]

Have you asked the car?

 

:lol: :lol:

[Dr.Filth]

Sound stupid I know but what is the engine size, often diesels are odd to petrol for example 1.5, 1.9's, where as petrols are often 1.2, 1.4, 1.6 1.8's.

 

You should be able to tell by the acceleration, engine noise and mid range poke in older models.

 

Diesels (older ones especially) are slow off the mark, with good mid range torque. They usually have a clattering noise tractor type opposed to a quieter and smoother petrol.

 

Also if the back tag has a "d" after the engine size its usually a diesel.

 

Besides syphoning off a fuel sample and burning it, you're fucked if none of that helps.

 

edit: chimps and others orange warm up light is a good tip too.

 

*GF translation*

Have you tried read-booting?