Put petrol in my diesel

mattpc · 20 Sep 2008 at 19:47

mglover070588 said:
A mate put a gallon (ish) of petrol in his 1.9TD golf 150. We just got a few jerry cans of diesel in it, and started it up. It stuttered and smoked a bit when first started, and he kept it over half full for a few months.

No long term problems.
Dont bother having the tank drained.

your advice is not sound because unless I am getting mixed up you are talking about a conventional turbo DERV engine not a common rail.

BigglesPiP · 20 Sep 2008 at 19:50

Brim it with diesel, that little petrol won't matter. Even on modern high pressure common rail systems. I've seen a brand new 5 series run fine with a lot more petrol in the tank than that.

Geffen · 20 Sep 2008 at 20:40

I'm still going to take the car to a garage. While there is a good chance with topping the tank up it may run ok, I don't want to take the chance of trashing the engine.

Are there any devices that work to stop me being so draft in the future. I may try just taping the garage invoice to the filler cap as a reminder if there isn't.

Defcon5 · 20 Sep 2008 at 20:42

mattpc said:
your advice is not sound because unless I am getting mixed up you are talking about a conventional turbo DERV engine not a common rail.

The PDs are common rail I think

gillywibble · 20 Sep 2008 at 20:58

PD's are not common rail. PD's have an injector for each cylinder that are not shared.

matthew_o50 · 20 Sep 2008 at 23:18

You can buy 'diesel only' and 'petrol only' stickers to stick on the inside of your petrol tank opener. My brother recently got them because he runs both a diesel and a petrol car and in the past he once filled his diesel with petrol and had to pay to get the tank drained.

Hades · 21 Sep 2008 at 02:46

matthew_o50 said:
You can buy 'diesel only' and 'petrol only' stickers to stick on the inside of your petrol tank opener. My brother recently got them because he runs both a diesel and a petrol car and in the past he once filled his diesel with petrol and had to pay to get the tank drained.

Great idea but after a while you'd probably stop looking at the sticker and complacency sets in.

Geffen · 21 Sep 2008 at 05:19

With regards to devises to stop miss filling i was thinkg more like this http://www.misfuellingprevention.co.uk/index.asp. But wondered if they are any good?