Diesel In A Petrol - Help

[ltempest]

HELP!

My wife has put diesel in our 1.8 petrol Avensis. It was only around 5 litres worth and although she drove it for over 5 miles afterwards, and it still kept going, there was no drive when going up hills. Luckily the RAC towed it home, but what do I do now?

Do I need to get the system drained before filling with petrol?

As it is such a small amount of diesel would filling the tank dilute the diesel enogh to get away with it?

What permanent damage could have been done to the engine, CAT converter etc?

Thanks

[captain06]

I've been accross this situation a few times before. Others filling up what they should not have. There are two ways you could go about this:

1. Drain out the tank and refill with petrol in which case your exhaust will puff out white smoke for about two miles.

2. Fill your tank up with petrol. The petrol diesel mixture will get diluted and should not make much difference to the running of your car. As long as the petrol is present the exhaust will puff out low levels of white smoke.

Hope this helps

[bgorman]

I've been accross this situation a few times before. Others filling up what they should not have. There are two ways you could go about this:

1. Drain out the tank and refill with petrol in which case your exhaust will puff out white smoke for about two miles.

2. Fill your tank up with petrol. The petrol diesel mixture will get diluted and should not make much difference to the running of your car. As long as the petrol is present the exhaust will puff out low levels of white smoke.

Hope this helps

Everytime I hear of someone putting diesel into a petrol car I can`t help but wonder how they do it.

The diesel pump nozzle is too wide to fit in the petrol filler hole, and the "auto cut off" should make any attempt to do so almost impossible.

[TeyaDog]

I've been accross this situation a few times before. Others filling up what they should not have. There are two ways you could go about this:

1. Drain out the tank and refill with petrol in which case your exhaust will puff out white smoke for about two miles.

2. Fill your tank up with petrol. The petrol diesel mixture will get diluted and should not make much difference to the running of your car. As long as the petrol is present the exhaust will puff out low levels of white smoke.

Hope this helps

Everytime I hear of someone putting diesel into a petrol car I can`t help but wonder how they do it.

The diesel pump nozzle is too wide to fit in the petrol filler hole, and the "auto cut off" should make any attempt to do so almost impossible.

My thoughts exactely ............ ever noticed how these 'petrol into diesel/diesel into petrol' threads always start off with 'My Wife' ............. :P

[bgorman]

I've been accross this situation a few times before. Others filling up what they should not have. There are two ways you could go about this:

1. Drain out the tank and refill with petrol in which case your exhaust will puff out white smoke for about two miles.

2. Fill your tank up with petrol. The petrol diesel mixture will get diluted and should not make much difference to the running of your car. As long as the petrol is present the exhaust will puff out low levels of white smoke.

Hope this helps

Everytime I hear of someone putting diesel into a petrol car I can`t help but wonder how they do it.

The diesel pump nozzle is too wide to fit in the petrol filler hole, and the "auto cut off" should make any attempt to do so almost impossible.

My thoughts exactely ............ ever noticed how these 'petrol into diesel/diesel into petrol' threads always start off with 'My Wife' ............. :P

Maybe women can do everything afterall !!!!

[igormus]

HELP!

My wife has put diesel in our 1.8 petrol Avensis. It was only around 5 litres worth and although she drove it for over 5 miles afterwards, and it still kept going, there was no drive when going up hills. Luckily the RAC towed it home, but what do I do now?

Do I need to get the system drained before filling with petrol?

As it is such a small amount of diesel would filling the tank dilute the diesel enogh to get away with it?

What permanent damage could have been done to the engine, CAT converter etc?

Thanks

hello

drain the tank and fill in with the highest (!)grade of petrol. after drive out of high way unless you feel good acceleration.

cheers/igor

[Beagh1958]

Itempest.

Fill it with petrol & drive on. If it had been the other way round ie: Petrol into Diesel, then you would or could have a big problem.

[buzlby]

I'd agree

A little diesel in a petrol wont do much harm, so long as it is well diluted with good quality petrol, then taken out for a long steady drive

Err.........she wasnt thinking of the Diesel as an additive was she..............

Cheers

Bazzer

[grapet]

Have to admit i put in 40 odd litres of petrol into a renault kangoo... the car drove like a rocket but had to be push started. Only after that did i realise my mistake. My local garage said dilute as much as I can with diesel and pour in 250ml of 2-stroke oil into the tank. I drove it up and down the motorway until the tank was 50% down and then filled it with diesel. It started fine after that. Was long term damage done? No idea but it still drives fine.

[ltempest]

Thanks for all the advice, and yes it was my wife, she even said it was strange the pump did not fit into the hole and she had to 'hold' it on the filler hole to get it to work!

She even then drove it for 11 miles!

When I drove it this morning, the only issue was pulling away from a standing / slow start, which I assume is down to pressure issues, but once moving you would not know it was running on diesel sound fine and no smoke!

I've since filled the car with 99 octane unleaded and will add a bottle of Redex on the next refill. Also thinking of using Shell Optimax with all the detergents in it to give the internals a clean, what do you think?

Thanks

Lee

[cmia]

If the tank is full

drain and refill with petrol

If its only couple of litres in their

fill up with petrol and you should be ok

[Aamir2892]

How on earth did u do that. The diesel nozzle is a lot more bigger so it wont fit in the fuel hole for a start. Very confusing.