Sister put unleaded in diesel tank - quick help needed!
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Yep. My Dad put £10 worth of UL in his 530d a few years ago. Topped it up with with Diesel.
Said it was noticably faster for that tank, just didn't idle as well. After that no issues for the next 80k then he sold it. Probably still going strong now.
It wasn't driven anywhere with the high concentration of petrol though as it was topped up straight away.
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This. Don't think its commonrail is it?
A friend put £20 worth of petrol in a diesel 56 plate focus that had half a tank of diesel in, he drove it about a 1/2 a mile to the local wickes store where on leaving realised what he had done when the car would not start.
The car was towed to his house where a fitter from the place he works at drained the tank, he spent a while priming the system and letting the car turn over on a H/D battery and eventually it started up, was a bit sluggish but soon got back to its old self, he used a fair bit diesel addative for a while but 6 months on and the car still runs great.
The car was towed to his house where a fitter from the place he works at drained the tank, he spent a while priming the system and letting the car turn over on a H/D battery and eventually it started up, was a bit sluggish but soon got back to its old self, he used a fair bit diesel addative for a while but 6 months on and the car still runs great.
Would it be logical to assume that since diesel is more dense than petrol, and the outlet is at (or near) the bottom of the tank, it will see very little petrol - far less than you might suppose with a 10:1 ratio diesel to petrol - thus needing frequent topups for quite some time to lower the concentration of petrol to the point you can run the tank mostly to empty before filling up? Presumably only turbulence will cause the petrol to enter the fuel pipe.
All that happens is it thins the diesel out slightly.
People add unleaded petrol in far greater quantities to diesel than that in colder climates to get their cars to run.
Petrol in Derv = No Probs.
Derv in New Petrols = Big probs.
Ignore the scare mongerers who don't know there **** from there elbow & fill the tank to three quarters, NOT FULL as you want room for it to mix. Then drive it & have a damn good laugh at any smoke that comes out when you floor it.
All it will do is Lubricate parts of the engine that are otherwise not lubricated as well.
It's good fun.
Derv in New Petrols = Big probs.
Ignore the scare mongerers who don't know there **** from there elbow & fill the tank to three quarters, NOT FULL as you want room for it to mix. Then drive it & have a damn good laugh at any smoke that comes out when you floor it.
All it will do is Lubricate parts of the engine that are otherwise not lubricated as well.
It's good fun.
A fivers worth of petrol is only just over a gallon, just brim it with diesel and she probably won't even notice the difference, it will run fine. Lots of ignorance and scare stories on this topic I see, but the Focus is not common rail, a small amount of petrol in the fuel won't hurt it.
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just fill with diesel it will be fine, £5 of petrol is nothing if she fills it
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Fill the car with petrol and it will 100% fine, trust me
It's a Diesel. I wouldn't recommend it.