Diesel in petrol not my fault.
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So was the Tank full to the brim of diesel?
I cannot see how diesel in a petrol engine could cause it to overrev and "blow" a throttle body (whatever that entails)
You would need to run a petrol engine on diesel for a significant period of time to do any genuine damage in my experience, and the vehicle would be borderline undriveable anyway during that whole time.
You would need to run a petrol engine on diesel for a significant period of time to do any genuine damage in my experience, and the vehicle would be borderline undriveable anyway during that whole time.
Clearly!
If this is incorrect fuel delivery, its not too surprising imo.
Most tankers carry diesel and unleaded,the tanker is split into compartments, diesel & unleaded will be carried on most retail forecourt deliverys.
Whilst the fuel nozzles are unique to the fuel types,so you can't fit a diesel pump in a petrol (supposedly!) the hoses on the tankers afaik are the same size / fitment.
Its certainly probable that diesel has been put in an unleaded tank - especially given the OP has a receipt for unleaded - I would imagine many vehicles have been affected by this, unless of course, the OP was the first unlucky one & the garage closed the effected tank off straight away.
Exactly my thoughts.
The finger of suspicion must pointed at the garage if they really said it had a "blown throttle body"*, as it suggests they don't know what they are talking about. This simply isn't what would happen if you accidentally filled it with diesel.
*Unless someone had attached a turbocharger to just one of the throttle bodies whilst you were filling the bike with fuel?
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Lad at work had similar from a BP garage in Peterborough. He drives a Diesel Passat, filled up with what he assumed to be diesel,paid and drove off, got about a mile down the road,lots of warning lights and then it died. Same situation, he had a receipt for diesel but had a tank full of unleaded. As far as i know, the garage did nothing until he sort legal advice.
petrol in a diesel can be a really bad thing compared to diesel in a petrol, so i dont envy him one bit
That's a very different situation as petrol in a modern diesel has the potential to damage some very expensive parts of the fuel system. Diesel in a petrol engine causes plenty of smoke and poor running (or it may not run at all if there is enough diesel) but it's far less likely to cause permanent damage. A "blown throttle body" is the result of an over-active imagination, not fuel contamination.
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Nozzle on a Diesel is bigger than a nozzle on a petrol and will not fit into a petrol hole (I assume a bike is the same as a car)
What has that got to do with the wrong fuel being in the garages tanks?
It means he cannot have accidentally filled up with diesel and paid for someone else's petrol
Doesn't apply to the OP as it was the wrong fuel in the UL tank. But my bike (2001) will easily fit a bigger nozzle into the tank than the UL one not sure about newer bikes.