Petrol in a diesel car.

[Mad Cyril]

A relative has just filled their diesel car with unleaded and driven off chugging to a halt very soon afterwards.

Is the engine likely to be ****ed?

 

[davewebbsbrain]

Will need totally flushing by a garage but I'm sure GHG will be able to advise better. Some insurance companies cover for this nowerdays

 

[londonblue]

A relative has just filled their diesel car with unleaded and driven off chugging to a halt very soon afterwards.

Is the engine likely to be ****ed?

Could well cost a packet to get it fixed. It would have been less bad if they had realised their mistake before driving off. That way you just need to drain the fuel tank and start again...

 

[Pubey]

If it's petrol in a diesel car can't you just syphon the tank and run it through (keep on topping up with diesel?). I wouldn't recommend it but when I got my latest car (a diesel) I was so worried I read up on it!

The other way around is worse I think (and why a diesel nozzle is bigger at the pump)

 

[Mad Cyril]

Actually turning on the ignition is enough to get fuel into the engine. On some diesels opening the door is enough because it preps the engine for ignition.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Never understood why the nozzles for diesel & petrol are the same shape and/or size.

 

[Pubey]

Never understood why the nozzles for diesel & petrol are the same shape and/or size.

They're not, diesel nozzles are bigger. I've not tried it but apparently you can't get a diesel nozzle in a petrol hole.

 

[MK Shrimper]

They're not, diesel nozzles are bigger. I've not tried it but apparently you can't get a diesel nozzle in a petrol hole.

You could be right: I know plenty of people who've done petrol in diesel but not the other way around. Comes with work vans being diesel and your own car generally petrol. Never done it myself :smile:

 

[londonblue]

You could be right: I know plenty of people who've done petrol in diesel but not the other way around. Comes with work vans being diesel and your own car generally petrol. Never done it myself :smile:

In flying there is a common saying about any mistake: There are those pilots that have made said mistake, and those that haven't made said mistake...yet.

Don't get complacent, it could cost you a lot! I always double check before I fill up, and I haven't driven a petrol car for over 10 years.

 

[Pubey]

In flying there is a common saying about any mistake: There are those pilots that have made said mistake, and those that haven't made said mistake...yet.

Don't get complacent, it could cost you a lot! I always double check before I fill up, and I haven't driven a petrol car for over 10 years.

Do what I did, buy a black diesel car so that the pump colour matches the car colour (and also look a bit gangster!)

 

[Mad Cyril]

Car has been drained and running Ok at the moment. Let's see what happens....

 

[Pubey]

A relative has just filled their diesel car with unleaded and driven off chugging to a halt very soon afterwards.

Is the engine likely to be ****ed?

A relative? It's ok Cyril we've got your back :winking:

 

[davewebbsbrain]

Do what I did, buy a black diesel car so that the pump colour matches the car colour (and also look a bit gangster!)

I think it's Gangsta :winking:

 

[steveo]

Could well cost a packet to get it fixed.

I did this in March - exactly one week after getting a new car. Main dealer towed it and fixed it - 650 quid - plus the 50 quids worth of petrol I lost.
Not one of my best days.

 

[Mad Cyril]

I did this in March - exactly one week after getting a new car. Main dealer towed it and fixed it - 650 quid - plus the 50 quids worth of petrol I lost.
Not one of my best days.

£270 for system drain. Car is running perfectly....for now.

 

[RobM]

In the war people used carbon tetra chloride in Diesel engines!

 

[Up the Shrimpers]

In the war people used carbon tetra chloride in Diesel engines!

Have a look at some of these! http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2014/07/rolling-gasified-coal-gas-bag-vehicles/

 

[Up the Shrimpers]

I did this in March - exactly one week after getting a new car. Main dealer towed it and fixed it - 650 quid - plus the 50 quids worth of petrol I lost.
Not one of my best days.

£270 for system drain. Car is running perfectly....for now.

Cyril is not so Mad!

EDIT: Just seen it was not Cyril's motor anyway.

 

[Benfleet A1]

£270 for system drain. Car is running perfectly....for now.

That's still a bit steep. Don't suppose you know who drained it do you?

 

[Berrichonne shrimper]

That's still a bit steep. Don't suppose you know who drained it do you?

Agreed,a client of mine paid £80 and he had driven said car and it was picked up from his home and done within 2 hours.