MISSFUELED

[mitzimad]

you were lucky to get home .I did the same and it did about 200 yards and stopped and you got away cheap i had just put 117litres in £400 to get it pumped out and then had to refill if id got home would have done it myself but was away

 

[Reallyretired]

I may be wrong but I dimly recall without trying to find the paperwork that comfort breakdown insurance with AA included misfuelling. Not that I would ever be so stupid of course.

 

[MikeD]

Yup - done that on the VW Caddy. 50 odd litres worth.

But drained it myself and put the fuel through the son's MX5. It never noticed a 10% diesel contribution

Free fuel - He was well pleased

 

[robnchris]

I'm amazed you managed to drive any distance with that amount of petrol.

 

[MikeD]

I'm amazed you managed to drive any distance with that amount of petrol.

I didn't - a friend had to tow me home. Got about 1/2 mile, mostly down hill before it cut out.

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[tribalbrit]

I did it in Spain a couple of years ago. Ducato van conversion. Van still ran, bit lumpy up hills, pulled in at next garage and topped up again, and the next, and the next. Did this about six times. Drove home to uk topping up every quarter tank and had van for another two years never had an issue.
Guess I was lucky.

 

[pappajohn]

Replacement fuel filter or service/replace injectors.
You drove home so the filter has petrol in as do the fuel lines.
Petrol kills injectors

 

[HandyAndy]

And

he paused... just like the van did after a few yards down the road

 

[thebriars]

It looked like they had misfuelled at our local Tesco a year or two back. One very sheepish tanker driver stood twiddling his thumbs, most of the pumps coned off, and a large van pumping out one of the main forecourt tanks. Ouch!

 

[The Dotties]

Regularly put 10% petrol into diesel tanks on east European deliveries in the depths of winter, to help with diesel freezing.
Mind you, we’re talking 30 years ago with Scania 141 with no electronic bits.
And temperatures in Poland of -42c.

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[Off da Grid]

Put £20 worth of petrol in a nearly empty tank once, Moral of this one don't chat through the window to the missis whilst fueling, the car takes petrol, luckely noticed the green nozzle in time, filled the tank to full, ran a bit lumpy for a while and refilled when half empty no lasting damage.
Standing joke now when we refill its the black one!
Although she was stumped in France, Deisel / Gazol is yellow, looked that one up before we left!
Wasn't -42C either in August last year!

 

[tonyidle]

Common rail engine parts are unlikely to be affected by petrol. The problem was the injector pump on older Diesel engines. It was assembled to very close tolerances and was lubricated entirely by fuel. No modern Diesel has an injector pump. What it does to the DPF is however anyones guess.

 

[EMS]

My first wife caused me a few problems with fuel she filed my scimitar sports car with diesel and she nearly managed a mile before it ground to a halt, luckily 100 yards from a specialist scimitar garage who were able to drain the tank, she paid.
The second time I had just washed her car and and started to wash mine, then she left to go shopping in her car and after ten minutes I had a phone call to say her car had broken down. So I drove to her to sort out the car and she used mine to go shopping,
I also could not get the car to start and after a while I phoned the AA. The AA man arrived and after a couple of minutes he explained there the tank was empty no fuel! He put a gallon of fuel i so I could get to the garage.
Who would believe my story.........

 

[PeteH]

Common rail engine parts are unlikely to be affected by petrol. The problem was the injector pump on older Diesel engines. It was assembled to very close tolerances and was lubricated entirely by fuel. No modern Diesel has an injector pump. What it does to the DPF is however anyones guess.

Err? (expensive) Bang?.

Nearest I came to "disaster" was to put 20E worth of Petrol in the R-V, on a French services, before I realised the error!. Shut the pump off went to the cashier and Paid. Then filled the R-V with Diesel, 200E worth. The R-V had been fitted with long range tanks, In the USA before I imported it, during the second Fuel crisis. I calculated there was no more the 10% petrol in the fuel, we used to put that much in the old wagons in winter anyway. Big lazy 6.4 lump just carried on "chugging", for another few years.

 

[Podney]

If you ever see a bald old man with spectacles,getting out of his car or van,closely inspecting the pumps and chanting “ diesel,diesel,diesel”.............that’s me! I do get some strange looks,but I’ve never put the wrong fuel in (so far)..

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[tonyidle]

Err? (expensive) Bang?

Might the best regeneration ever ?

 

[steve 6644]

I just put 65 litres of unleaded into my 2008 2.3 Fiat Rapido when filling it right up as the guage was showing about a 1/4 tank of diesle already in the tank. I conked out after about 45 miles later on the M25 mostly all at 50/60 mph. Got towed to Cobham services and AA pumped out the tank and fuel pump and lines etc. I filled it up and all was well with no obvious signs of any problem going onto to Wokingham and back to Chatham.

I have been thinking about selling the van once I have got all the niggles I have had since buying it sorted out. What concerns me now is that this missfueling will have potentially done some damage.
Anyone know how a 2008 Ducato 2.3 would be affected by doing this? I would have to tell any buyer and refer them to this thread so any advice and opinions greatly appreciated.

Cheers.

 

[PhilG]

Diesel camper, petrol generator, Two stroke bike on V Power, 4 stroke bike on VP race fuel. What could possibly go wrong.

 

[GWAYGWAY]

I did the same,Goldwing,long day regular garage,dark night.same pump filled with diesel.
Got out of first gear,second looked in my mirrors,billowing smoke then died.
Wasn’t such an expensive mistake as friends with the dealer who sold me the bike.
Came in his van,locked it in his garage,his mechanic drained it,changed filter,went like a rocket after,didn’t do any harm,only to the wallet

Probably did an Ariel Leader impression for a good few miles though

 

[Spriddler]

Sister took the oil cap off the rocker cover and filled the engine with water.

How daft. It's obvious that you should put 710 in there.

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[Spriddler]

A couple of years ago on a 2 month tour of Spain I put nearly half a gallon of diesel I my three gallon 1947 petrol motorbike tank. I was cold, tired and very wet so just brimmed the tank with petrol. It ran better than ever. Mind you, with only 7.5:1 compression and being designed to run on very low octane Pool petrol it might have been fine on even a 50/50 mix.
In those days many commercial and agricultural vehicles were started on petrol and once warmed up switched over to paraffin.

 

[roncab]

Done the same last year in Sierra Nevada mountains in Spain contacted Nationwide they were brilliant no problems took all day to sort out as we had to be recovered from motorway but they took care of everything did not cost a penny

 

[Thursdays Child]

Been there, done that. Two hour wait for a "long enough" recovery truck, £200 drain and 1 litre of diesel. £ 98 of contaminated petrol down the drain plus cost of refilling with diesel.
The RAC man told me that they and the AA handle 400 such calls every day.

 

[movan]

I am quite paranoid about doing this as I have a petrol car and a diesel moho.

Coincidentally, I saw one of these in a box of reduced stuff somewhere recently and have just fitted it inside the fuel flap.

If nothing else, the strange electronic voice will make me smile ?

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My big worry.

Love that Janine did you use internet to buy it from?

 

[Janine]

My big worry.

Love that Janine did you use internet to buy it from?

No, it was in a bargain bin in Halfords or somewhere like that.

It is Light-sensitive so should only work when I open the fuel flap.

It also goes off when anyone walks past the van which is quite funny to watch ?

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[Mayflower]

Up to 5% petrol in a diesel engined vehicle will do no damage at all.
In fact, in times when winter diesel is not available in cold climate countries, it is actually encouraged.

 

[The Coops]

Had a right Ba**ard of a boss in the old job, looked out of the office window and quietly watched him fill his brand new Diesel Range Rover, top of the range with petrol at the works fuel pump.................didn't have the heart to tell him but organised a sweep with the lads as to how far he would get.......the answer was 5 miles....everything comes to those who wait.