Petrol in a Diesel Car!!!

[Robbo]

Came home today and was greeted with a message on the machine.

Ring me ASAP.

Turned out, she'd only gone and put petrol in our Diesel Renault,

only had it less than a year.

#### knows how much that is going to cost to get fixed?

all I can say is:

@%$£$ing &*%$ing &^*$%ing hell!!

Anyone got any experience of this?

[the insaan]

if she hasnt filled it up then fill it up with diesel and should be ok.

if it has loads of petrol in it then get it towed to a garage and undo the fuel cap, then look underneath the tank and you will see a drain pluh and you can undo this and drain the fuel out no problems.

If the petrol has reached the engine bay side then on dieseld there is usually a hand lever for bleeding air out of the system, just undo the fuel filter and pump htis lever until the petrol has cleared

When i worked for the Volkswagen Dealer in Aberdeen i put £40 of unleaded into a brand new Golf GT Tdi with 4 miles on the clock

I got it back to the yard, it was splutering like fook. All it needed was the tank draining and a refill of diesel and it was fine

Didn't even have to drain anything else



Nano

[Robbo]

She had it on the red (the fuel guage), then went and put £20 worth of unleaded in it. Drove about a mile, then it ground to a halt with white smoke at the back.

I've been reading stuff on the net, with peeps getting bills of £7K.

That was lucky Nano,

I bet your bosses were pleased with you.
Re: Draining.
Hopefully that's all it needs, although the dealer is saying £300 to £400 for starters.

Bl**dy M*rrisons, fancy making the unleaded handle black, it should be GREEN!

Enough to confuse any blonde.

Thanks insaan, but I don't do cars. It cost me about £14K and I don't want to touch it myself for fear of fooking it up. Hoping it is a simple job like that though.

I would tell any garage to fook right off if they wanted that to drain the tank

Most new cars have the fuel guage sensor unit under the rear seat. Its easily accessed so you can syphon it out. Just get out as much as you can and then fill it right upto the top with diesel and it should be fine

Garages tell you all the sh!t that it will fook up your car, its a load of boll**ks. As long as you fill the tank right up with diesel after you've drained as much as you can it will be fine. You used to have to put a couple of quid of petrol into diesel during the winter anyway to stop it waxing up so i have no idea where they think a cupfull of petrol in 60 litres of diesel is going to make

If its the otherway round as in Diesel in a petrol car then theres problems, but i've never known petrol in a diesel cause that many problems



Nano

[the insaan]

if you put petrol in a diesel car then its not such a big problem, but if you put diesel in a petrol car then you have big problems, f**kin big problems

Bring on the smoke machine

[brian]

Once put diesel in a petrol car at Morrisons. Oh, that was fun, with three teeny kiddies in the back.

Luckily didn't start the car - realised I'd done wrong when I put the nozzle back, so went into the paying area and asked and was told to not start it or else.

Getting it towed to a garage and drained cost me about £150, though that was about 5 years ago.

So hopefully hasn't proved too expensive for you.

[Robbo]

Originally Posted by brian

Once put diesel in a petrol car at Morrisons. Oh, that was fun, with three teeny kiddies in the back.

Luckily didn't start the car - realised I'd done wrong when I put the nozzle back, so went into the paying area and asked and was told to not start it or else.

Getting it towed to a garage and drained cost me about £150, though that was about 5 years ago.

So hopefully hasn't proved too expensive for you.

Hopefilly I will find out soon.


It cost me £95 to get the car towed home. The bloke who towed it, had a contact who hopefully will sort it out for me early this afternoon, for 80 notes.
I have my fingers crossed.

I could have had a decent upgrade to my sat gear for that.

I will not take any moans about my dish from her from now on

[madrat]

the wife used my Uno once for work and in a hurry put Derv in it (her car was diesel) and drove off, it went for about half a mile them juddered to a halt she ended up in a layby on a country lane at 7pm on a winters night, all we had to do was remove fuel sender from under back seat suck out the tank, changer the fuel filter and once it started run it at a fast idle until it cleared itself. trouble with modern cars is it will have probably triaged all sorts of crap on the ECU