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aca72 · 04-09-2009, 07:09 PM

Why the spark plug change? Did your Yaris hit 100K+ miles already?

la_scanner · 04-09-2009, 10:06 PM

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Originally Posted by aca72

Why the spark plug change? Did your Yaris hit 100K+ miles already?

diesel put into car. replaced plugs with cheapy autolite. even though car ran fine my grandma didn't want her warrant to be void. understandable.

jambo101 · 04-10-2009, 08:31 AM

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Originally Posted by la_scanner

diesel put into car. replaced plugs with cheapy autolite. even though car ran fine my grandma didn't want her warrant to be void. understandable.

Now that the dealer knows that diesel was put in the car

and the owner will pay $130 for new plugs expect more money making ideas from the dealer.should be something like a full replacement of all blinker fluid next.
Still dont know how some one puts diesel into their car as the gas nozzle for diesel gas wont fit a gasoline powered car.
PS. Did a bit of research and it seems some stations that dont service big trucks do indeed use the same size pump nozzle for diesel and regular gas.

la_scanner · 04-10-2009, 08:44 AM

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Originally Posted by jambo101

Now that the dealer knows that diesel was put in the car

and the owner will pay $130 for new plugs expect more money making ideas from the dealer.should be something like a full replacement of all blinker fluid next.
Still dont know how some one puts diesel into their car as the gas nozzle for diesel gas wont fit a gasoline powered car.
PS. Did a bit of research and it seems some stations that dont service big trucks do indeed use the same size pump nozzle for diesel and regular gas.

dealer has no idea that diesel was put in there. and yes, nozzle fits. only difference is that it has a green handle. at least this is how its set up at the one of the chevron gas stations in the city of la verne,ca.

Yaris Hilton · 04-10-2009, 09:07 AM

I once got "gassed" with diesel at a station near Atlanta that had three grades of gasoline and Diesel in the same pump with the same nozzle! Perhaps I operated it incorrectly, but I sure thought I'd selected regular (the button for which was green, as was the Diesel.) I was mad enough about it to call the Bureau of Weights and Measures, which tested the octane of the fuel and found it as labeled. What they didn't test was whether diesel came out of that pump when regular was selected.

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Yaris Hilton Half a Bubble Off Plumb Drives: 2009 Yaris Sedan Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Bristol, Tennessee, USA Posts: 1,593	I once got "gassed" with diesel at a station near Atlanta that had three grades of gasoline and Diesel in the same pump with the same nozzle! Perhaps I operated it incorrectly, but I sure thought I'd selected regular (the button for which was green, as was the Diesel.) I was mad enough about it to call the Bureau of Weights and Measures, which tested the octane of the fuel and found it as labeled. What they didn't test was whether diesel came out of that pump when regular was selected.