women and fuel

[Adrian]

Hers one that made me laugh today!

My mrs + diesel car + unleaded fuel in the diesel car = one f%$*^ car!! and £290 lighter in the pocket, no heli bits for a while:(

[moyesboy]

men and fuel

I've put unleaded in a diesel twice. Once driving north from heathrow on the way back from Oz. I was dog tired. The other was just a blond monent.
The first time I drove it and realised as it stopped. The second I realised as the pump switched off, and got towed from the filling station.

however I remeber being in a filling station and a woman in there was saying she had half filled her (petrol) rental car withe diesel and would it get back to enterprise (100m away). There's a rental I wouldn't want to pick up!

[waveydavey]

If you haven't filled it up with unleaded you can normally get away with it. It'll run like a pig and you have to keep topping up with diesel but it will run. I've done it so many times I've run out of fingers and never had to pay the robbing B#######s a penny to drain it. Now diesel in a petrol that's another matter.

[jamiem]

Diesel in a petrol will just make it smoke badly but will actually clean the internals out nicely. Petrol in a diesel can do serious damage and is not to be driven like it!

[woody]

More men and fuel

My Husband put unleaded petrol in my diesel car on the way to Bournemouth Airport early one morning. We didnt realise until it started to cough and splutter as we approached the airport. The fuel had to stay in the tank for two weeks until we could sort it out when we returned.

[Arky]

[quote=youngdave;173391]If you haven't filled it up with unleaded you can normally get away with it. It'll run like a pig and you have to keep topping up with diesel but it will run. I've done it so many times I've run out of fingers and never had to pay the robbing B#######s a penny to drain it. Now diesel in a petrol that's another matter.[/quote]


if your doing this with a "comon rail engine" ie modern diesel you will destroy it :)

the high presure pump needs the diesel to protect it it's oil, petrol will kill the pistons and bores in this unit as it will have no lube, this pump is under extream loads, cranking = 100bar idle = apox 300bar /4300psi 3500rpm the presure gets silly :)

dont do it kids it will destory the high presure pump and can damage your injectors.

[RCNooBee]

I've done this by accident in our '54 Merc Sprinter van when it had done about 100,000 miles and that was about £10 worth of petrol into about £20 of diesel. It was a bugger to start but it ran o.k. once it was going. Just drove it to the next services and topped off with diesel - it did no lasting damage. It's now just passed 190,000 miles and still going strong.

As Jason states quite correctly, modern diesel engines in cars don't like it. Lorry and van engines are still pretty primitive though and don't fuss too much what you run them on - even used cooking oil until they cottoned on and put the price up to near that of diesel. 50/50 mix with diesel - no difference!

I agree with jamiem about cleaning the injectors on a petrol. In actual fact, the commercial injector cleaner solutions you can buy for about £5 for 300ml are mainly diesel and kerosene (paraffin) based - so who's making a fast buck on that one?

In years past, lorry drivers used to add a couple of gallons of petrol to their diesel tanks to stop it 'waxing' in cold weather, but as fuel additives have progressed it's not needed anymore except in arctic conditions where they can't keep the fuel warm.

I once saw someone try to work out how to fill up a dual-fuel Range Rover, but it was obviously not their car and they'd opened the wrong filler cap and the look of sheer puzzlement on their face as they (thankfully) couldn't get the LPG cap off. That would have ben funny right up to the moment they managed it!!!

Ho Hum!!

[waveydavey]

[quote=Jason Larkin;173431]if your doing this with a "comon rail engine" ie modern diesel you will destroy it :)

the high presure pump needs the diesel to protect it it's oil, petrol will kill the pistons and bores in this unit as it will have no lube, this pump is under extream loads, cranking = 100bar idle = apox 300bar /4300psi 3500rpm the presure gets silly :)

dont do it kids it will destory the high presure pump and can damage your injectors.[/quote]


Done it recently in my 07 A4 2.0 Diesel. No problem. As I said, no damage but ran like a pig. Better than paying the boys in yellow or orange to come get you out of the shit. There may be technical reasons not to but done me nor the engine any harm

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