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Diesel Guard reccomended by the Times
In it's Car Clinic Q&A column, The Sunday Times suggest fitting Diesel Guard to prevent a £200 repeat bill from a Peugeot dealer when a driver writes in after filling his diesel car with Petrol.
Read the full article at Times Online
Gadgeteer Hands On Review
by Judie Hughes, The Gadgeteer
The Gadgeteer has a 'hands on review' of the Diesel Guard in use in American trucks and concludes..
Honestly, I can't imagine why every truck rental place in the United States does not have these installed on their entire fleet. In fact, I think that the Diesel Guard is something that every dealership in my town should include standard with their diesel pickups. I heartily recommend this product to anyone with a Diesel vehicle; the peace of mind alone is worth the purchase price.
Read the full review at The Gadgeteer
Diesel Guard warns drivers not to use regular fuel
by Marc Perton, Engadget.com
Sometimes, a low-tech solution is all you need. If you’re driving a diesel-powered car and don’t want to trash the engine by accidentally filling it with regular gas, the Diesel Guard might just be the answer. The Diesel Guard is a $25 audio player that you mount inside your car’s fuel-tank door. When you open the door, it lets off a loud beep and a stern warning to fill the engine with diesel fuel only. We assume someone’s already making plans to hack these to say all sorts of less practical things when an unsuspecting gas-station attendant opens the door, but what we really want is one tailored for bio-diesel cars that says, “dude, this car only runs on fry grease!” Engadget
NAGGING VOICE FROM YOUR FUEL TANK
by Dave Pollard of The Sunday Times
According to the AA Trust, around 120,000 motorists fill their car's tank with the wrong fuel every year. Putting petrol in a modern diesel engine can easily wreck the injection system, but Dieselguard, a box that sticks to the inside of the fuel filler flap and uses the same principle as birthday cards that play a tune when opened, warns the user in a synthesised voice to "insert diesel fuel only". At just £12.50 including carriage, it's an inexpensive way to safeguard your engine. Times Online
Four-star brainwave to stop fuel mix-ups
By Sam Lister Daily Post Staff
A GADGET that bursts out songs and messages in birthday cards has been turned into a warning system for drivers.
Wirral inventor Chris Bibby has created a device that stops motor-ists filling up with the wrong fuel.
The costly mistake is one made by more than 300,000 car owners a year but he hopes the invention, which shouts out an alert, will help cut the number.
The inspiration came from an unfortunate first-hand experience when, on a dark and rainy evening, he grabbed the wrong pump when he went to fill up his car.
He said: "It was night and the weather was bad, I couldn't see much. I wasn't really thinking about what I was doing and I picked up the wrong pump. I just wasn't paying attention. "I suddenly realised that it must happened to thousands of drivers every day and decided there was a need for some kind of warning device.
" In today's society there is a bigger need than ever for this kind of device. People are so busy, always rushing around. It's very easy to make a mis-take like filling up with the wrong fuel."
Mr Bibby, of Heswall, who runs UK Fuel Guard, used the sound chip technology from greetings cards to design the matchbox-sized gadget called Diesel Guard.
It is aimed at busy drivers who are often on auto-pilot when they get to the petrol forecourt and the firm's logo is "Use your nozzle".
Encased in plastic, it is safe for petro-chemical use, and is simply attached to the fuel filler flap with a high strength sticky pad.
The device is light-sensitive so when the driver goes to fill up it blasts out a warning to fill up with derv.
It costs from about £80 to have the fuel tank drained if the engine has not been switched on.
But once it has been fired repairs spiral and can mount up to thousands.
At the moment, it is being sold individually over the internet for £12.50 but Mr Bibby, and his nephew Kirk Eden, who is marketing the product, are hoping to target car firms and other large companies.
Although not from an engineering background, Mr Bibby has run a construction company and a car sales firm.
This latest venture has spurred on his inventive talents but he is remaining tight-lipped about future projects.
" I do have other projects I plan to work on but at the moment I'm focusing on this. It is such a simple idea and is so simple to use I think it will be invaluable to motorists."
Diesel Guard features in AutoExpress.
Those really annoying musical greetings cards - the ones that play a tinny version of happy birthday when you open them - are the unlikely inspiration for a new motoring invention.
Kirk Eden, from Merseyside-based UK Fuel Guard, has borrowed the sound chip technology to create a warning device designed to prevent diesel drivers accidentally filling up with unleaded – a costly mistake that 300,000 motorists make each year.
Called Diesel Guard, the gadget is the size of a matchbox and can be attached to the inside of an oil-burner’s fuel filler flap. When the flap is opened, the device’s built-in photocell triggers the sound chip and a voice reminds the driver to fill with derv, not petrol. The unit has been specially developed for use in a petro-chemical environment.
Kirk Eden told us: “A couple of years ago my uncle put unleaded into his car after forgetting it was a diesel. He challenged me to make a cheap gadget which could stop other drivers doing the same thing.”
Diesel Guard is expected to go on sale in March for around £10 and will be available from www.dieselguard.com and motoring stores. E-mail info@dieselguard.com for more details.
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DieselGuard and Voice Express Team Up
The Diesel Guard™ Audible Fuel Type Warning System uses advanced voice packaging technology from Voice Express, a USA company founded in 1997.
Geoffrey Stern, President of Voice Express commented:
“Dieselguard.com and Voice Express have teamed up to create an innovative product which uses our audio electronics to enhance the lives of millions of motorists. The Dieselguard audio warning device represents the perfect combination of our audio chip technology with a product application which incorporates an understanding of the needs and lifestyle of customers on the go.”
Voice-Express® was founded in 1997 to introduce next generation. Voice-Packaging products and services using the Company's patents* for online/offline voice-chip recording and delivery and other proprietary technologies. Today, Voice-Express designs, produces and markets a variety of innovative messaging products that enable e-commerce, business and traditional retail consumers to share and send giftware, promotional and other products that contain a self-playing personal audio message or other sound effect.
Dieselguard Ltd, makers of the Diesel Guard™, are a new company based in Merseyside in the UK. Diesel Guard™ is their first product.
For more information about Diesel Guard™, please use our contact form or ring 0798 0516848 in the UK.
For more information about Voice Express® please visit the Voice Express® website or ring 914-395-1010 in the USA.
