Petrol in a Diesel

[ashmicro]

Mornin all

 

Right, a mate phoned me this morning in a bit of a tizz - his 2005 Tucson CRDi was nearly out of diesel, so off to the service station goes he. He's lobbed about £3 of pez in it before he gets his "OH FUCK!" moment. When he phoned me, I told him to fill it to the neck with diesel. So far it seems OK, and it's got him to work OK (~30 miles). Given that diesel drivers used to put a small amount of pez in their tanks in winter to stop it freezing, I reckon it'll be OK. Anyone know any different? He's shitting himself.

 

 

Cheers, Shiters!

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

My friend's father in law put quite a bit of petrol in his common-fail Focus, it conked out after about 30 miles. I expected disaster but once it was drained and bled it was fine.

I don't think 3 litres mixed with a full tank of diesel will cause a problem.

[Pillock]

Plus, diesel being heavier sinks to the bottom so the fuel pickup line will only be sucking diesel though.

Tell him not to run it below half a tank for a few weeks and it'll be ok.

[wuvvum]

Can't see £3-'orth causing a problem. The handbook for my old LT35 van says that the engine in that (and by extension the engine in Volvo 740/940 TDs) would cope with up to 30% petrol in the diesel - don't know if a common rail engine would be quite that tolerant, but £3 is going to be less than 5% of a full tank so should be fine.

[Cavcraft]

Indeed. Used to shove a bit under a gallon of petrol, some LHM and a splash of veg oil to my old BX dizzler to help the emissions at MOT time.

[theorganist]

I put about £4 worth of petrol in my Maestro diesel (in error) about ten years ago.

 

Realising my mistake I filled the rest of the tank up with diesel. It was a bit out of tune for the next day or so and then returned to normal.

[ashmicro]

Cheers everyone. I've told hime to keep an eye on the MIL, and to keep topping it up every time it gets near half.

 

I bet he never does it again!

 

 

 

Andy

[Danblez]

First time I filled up our focus tdci I bunged about the same amount of petrol in. Filled it up with diesel and 40k miles later I can report it had bugger all effect.

 

I must admit I was shitting it a bit at the time and the worst thing I could have done is googled the possible damage.