£90 for emptying pumping petrol out a deisel car

Stephen7372 · 14 Dec 2006 at 19:42

£90 for emptying pumping petrol out a diesel car

Is that reasonable she put £10 of petrol in

Housey · 14 Dec 2006 at 19:44

Give her a big straw, much cheaper!

touch · 14 Dec 2006 at 19:44

Well, what other options do you have?

(Maybe if your lucky, they might let you keep the £10 petrol

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moss · 14 Dec 2006 at 19:51

£10's worth of petrol in a diesel car wouldnt have probably caused any problems, provided the tank was then fully brimmed with diesel, depends on what type of car it was too though.

Stephen7372 · 14 Dec 2006 at 19:54

Peugeuot 309 garage said ti would have ruined everything if it been started :rolleyes:

derfderfley · 14 Dec 2006 at 19:56

Stephen7372 said:
Is that reasonable she put £10 of petrol in

All depends on what they did really, did they come and pick the car up ?

Collect car
Drain tank
Change fuel filter
2 Gallons diesel
prime fuel system

Would be about an 1 hours labour plus parts and collection, so in that case £90 would not be extortionate.

Stephen7372 · 14 Dec 2006 at 20:13

The AA collect the car and delivered it

moss · 14 Dec 2006 at 20:22

Stephen7372 said:
Peugeuot 309 garage said ti would have ruined everything if it been started

309 1.9D? I would have just brimmed the tank with diesel and it should be alright

Faithless · 14 Dec 2006 at 20:23

no problem with doing this (petrol in a diesel) Keeps things lubricrated in a nice fashion especially during the winter months. Its the other way around you really do not want to try

Puzzled · 14 Dec 2006 at 20:25

Faithless said:
no problem with doing this (petrol in a diesel) Keeps things lubricrated in a nice fashion especially during the winter months. Its the other way around you really do not want to try

I thought diesel in a petrol wouldn't cause much harm, but petrol in a diesel can really mess it up?

Or am I reading your post wrong?

blueboy2001 · 14 Dec 2006 at 20:42

Diesel = Lubricant
Petrol = Solvent

Petrol in an old school diesel engine won't cause any problems up to about 20%.

Modern high pressure systems could be ruined by even small amounts, and replacement parts cost thousands.

Faithless · 14 Dec 2006 at 20:50

MonkeyMan said:
I thought diesel in a petrol wouldn't cause much harm, but petrol in a diesel can really mess it up?

Or am I reading your post wrong?

Put diesel in a petrol will see you travel around 100yds then conk out - depending on how much you put in of course. In fact, the diesel nozzle wont physically fit into a petrol neck filler. Even priming the ignition can do damage and if you drive, you can probably say buy buy to your injectors, CAT, etc.

As has been said, petrol in old skool diesels isnt bad, newer one, I wouldnt risk it.

s0ck · 14 Dec 2006 at 21:00

Unlucky.
I doubt the car is worth 90 quid lol and a tenner's worth of diesel would have, arguably, done no harm as long as she filled up will diesel straight after and left the fuel cap open for a bit.

Matt82 · 14 Dec 2006 at 21:02

just brim it with diesel again... it will dilute and be fine. what car is it?

rmuir · 14 Dec 2006 at 21:14

Faithless said:
As has been said, petrol in old skool diesels isnt bad, newer one, I wouldnt risk it.

Sure i read autocar/topgear/autoexpress not so long ago where one of the staff reporters brimmed a tdci with petrol ran it for the tankful and only realised when he went thru his receipts at the end of the week.

Tho not to be reccomended, no damage was noted!!

Vertigo · 14 Dec 2006 at 21:25

Faithless said:
As has been said, petrol in old skool diesels isnt bad, newer one, I wouldnt risk it.

Petrol in a modern common rail or PD diesel is the worst possible combination due to the very high injector pressures involved. You'll totally, utterly screw up the fuel system by doing this.

wez130 · 14 Dec 2006 at 23:35

i got told when i bought my mondy TDCi by my mate (head mechanic for our local Ford dealer) that if i ever put petrol in it, do not start it, modern diesels (common rail) work under extremely high pressure etc he told me.

NickXX · 14 Dec 2006 at 23:48

As said above, Petrol in a Common Rail diesel car will totally screw it.

Zefan · 14 Dec 2006 at 23:50

My mum put petrol in a diesel or vice versa and it still ran on it, just with almost no oomph. Enough to stop her slowing too fast on the motorway :eek:

Mickey_D · 15 Dec 2006 at 06:10

Deisel in a petrol car won't hurt anything if it's not more than 10% per volume.

My next door neighbor has put one gallon Deisel in to every 10 gallons petrol for more years than I've been driving. His old Ford F-150 had almost 150,000 miles on it and was going strong when he traded it in on a brand new F-250, which he still runs his D/P mixture in. He says he gets about a 5-10% increase in fuel mileage with it. Thinking about trying it in my truck some time.