Re: Gas cap differences RED and GREEN????[200/90]

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Re: Gas cap differences RED and GREEN????[200/90] posted by jorn schreurs on
Tuesday, 5 December 2000, at 3:44 a.m.

This is a European thing.

Red is for Leaded Gas
Green is for Unleaded Gas
Black is for Diesel

Unleaded gas (and catalitic converters) has only been introduces (CAT - manditory) since 1992. Fill up a post '92 car with leaded petrol and your CAT is gone.

All fillup stations in Europe use these colour codes. So in case you do not know what your car can take, you only have to follow the cap colour and fill up nozzle colour (for the idiot really).

They also made the nozzle of unleaded fill-up gun smaller together with the hole of the fillup oil in your car. You cannot unsert the Unleaded nozzle (red) in an post '92 car (green).

Reg,

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Jorn Schreurs (84 240GLT B23E M46OD 150k, 92 240 Torslanda B200F M47 137k)

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