Have you ever Mis-Fueled??

fryup

Well go on confess, you'd be surprised how often it happens.

Well it nearly happened to me last night, you see ive just got my first diesel after years of driving petrol cars, so there i was at my local service station with the petrol pump in my hand just about to fill up when..:eek:bang!! it me "its a diesel ffs what r u doing"

It was a close call..so this morning i put a sticker on the fuel cap to remind me:o

SV

A bit of petrol would have done the diesel the world of good.

It's never happened to me. I've never been unfortunate enough to have to drive a diesel :P

omb0wyn5ehpij9

Thankfully it hasn't happened to me!

Orla K

When it was still normal to have people manning the pumps, it happened to my aunt. Her car was petrol and the guy working there started to put diesel into it. That was probably due to it being Sunday morning.

Also my friends boyfriend managed to do it to her car, she wasn't happy with him.

patrickc

i havent but my step-dad did it recently.. thankfully the van stalled and it did no damage

robtri

Thank god it has never happened to me, but a guy I worked with a couple of years ago, had a company car, had a diesel vectra 2.2, now he had this car for 6 months at this stage, he then filled thing up with from near empty to full with petrol one day......
car clonked out round the corner on a slip road.....
he was convinced that he had put diesel in it and refused to believe other wise, till he was shown otherwise....
lucky enough not too much damage to the engine.....

eringobragh

fryup wrote: »

Well go on confess, you'd be surprised how often it happens.

Well it nearly happened to me last night, you see ive just got my first diesel after years of driving petrol cars, so there i was at my local service station with the petrol pump in my hand just about to fill up when..:eek:bang!! it me "its a diesel ffs what r u doing"

It was a close call..so this morning i put a sticker on the fuel cap to remind me:o

Might be worth installing one of these:

http://www.misfuellingprevention.co.uk/

NiSmO

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Seth Brundle

I received this press release recently: Incorrect Fuelling Protection System As Standard For All BMW Diesels

peasant

I accidentally put the two-stroke fuel for the lawnmower into the four stroke strimmer ...it stank a bit and I was coughing in clouds of blue smoke for a while before I copped it.

Mark#1

I put €20 petrol in our new-to-us 1.9TD Alhambra before I remembered it wasn't a petrol car, just 2 minutes after buying it. I rang the dealer who said to fill it up the rest of the way with deisel (€45 worth) and everything would be fine. Aparrently it would do the engine no harm and could even help give the guts of the engine a bit of a clean-out.

Mark

S.I.R

Mark#1 wrote: »

I put €20 petrol in our new-to-us 1.9TD Alhambra before I remembered it wasn't a petrol car, just 2 minutes after buying it. I rang the dealer who said to fill it up the rest of the way with deisel (€45 worth) and everything would be fine. Aparrently it would do the engine no harm and could even help give the guts of the engine a bit of a clean-out.

Mark

indeed, mixing fuels isnt Too bad ( i.e 80+% petrol with 20 diesel in a petrol motor )


even the highest of sturng motors will run...

worse comes to worse, leave it idling if its running rough till the tank emptys and strat a fresh with the correct fuel.

peasant

S.I.R wrote: »

indeed, mixing fuels isnt Too bad ( i.e 80+% petrol with 20 diesel in a petrol motor )


even the highest of sturng motors will run...

worse comes to worse, leave it idling if its running rough till the tank emptys and strat a fresh with the correct fuel.

no offence, but that's a load of crap, especially the last bit.

You are correct in so far that a bit of petrol in the diesel won't cause any negative effect on combustion, it might even help to clear some carbon deposits ...it's the injection side of things where it gets tricky.

Modern common rail high pressure injection systems are extremely sensitive pieces of kit. They work at insane pressure and with the closest of tolerances.
They rely on the lubricating properties of diesel to keep a film between the precision components. Petrol will remove that film in a flash and everything will seize more or less instantly. Bye, bye injection system and thousands of your hard earned.

T-Maxx

Recently happened to the wife - driving on fumes (as usual) and filled up with €80 worth of petrol instead of diesel. Came to a stop within a few hundred meters of the filling station.

I did a bit of reading on the web - apparently it happens about 400 times a day in the UK where it's a £700m per year industry with repair costs often totaling thousands of pounds.

There's a lot of different and extreme opinions on the web though, but the consensus is that it's not so bad to put a bit of diesel into a petrol engine, but not good the other way around.

I had the tank taken off and emptied, the complete fuel system drained, and that was it. Didn't need to replace anything. Cost about €60 just to get rid of the contaminated petrol though...

PirateShampoo

A few years back while working on the building sites we had a new store boy start, his job was to give out all the mobile generaters to different parts of the site, there where about 20 or so in all. When it came to refueling them he filled every single Diesel generater with Petrol.

L-M

LOl^^^

No, hasn't happened me....Yet... :cool:

MrPudding

I stuck a fiver of unleaded into the diesel car. Just filled the rest up correctly, no issues.

MrP

T-Maxx

OP, how about a poll?

Hellrazer

Last place I worked we were sued by a customer who put €70.00 of petrol in a diesel because she said it wasnt marked clearly enough.
I think it was a CRDI and it did about 1200 euros worth of damage.

It was thrown out of court by the judge because "it was clearly marked in 3 places around the filler tank which is no grounds for sueing the manufacturer"

It was on the outside of the flap,on the inside of the flap and written on the actual cap itself.

Cookie_Monster

Hellrazer wrote: »

Last place I worked we were sued by a customer who put €70.00 of petrol in a diesel because she said it wasnt marked clearly enough.
I think it was a CRDI and it did about 1200 euros worth of damage.

It was thrown out of court by the judge because "it was clearly marked in 3 places around the filler tank which is no grounds for sueing the manufacturer"

It was on the outside of the flap,on the inside of the flap and written on the actual cap itself.

Dozy B1tch Woman

projectgtr

yep ive done it, was driving the work van non stop for a while, then i was driving my car to a family dinner, went to get petrol on the way. got about 8euro in and noticed it, push my car to the side and emptied the tank and flushed it there and then, no thanks to the staff! stupid mistake but dont no damage as i copped it straight away:D

Toots

Happened to a girl in work when a petrol station attendant put petrol in her Land Rover. She had to get it flushed out (or something, can't remember exactly what she said), so she took her hubby's car to work (petrol engine) while he picked up her Land Rover from the garage. On the way home he stopped to fill it up. Guess what he did.......:D

Carawaystick

In a petrol station in the town where the wife's from, they filled the underground tanks incorrectly - petrol in the diesel and diesel in the petrol....


I thought it's impossible to put diesel in a petrol ( well anything from about 90 onwards) as the nozzle doesn't fit. ( in normal circumstances of course, if the green pump is pumping diesel well.....)

alias no.9

I've done it as a forecourt attendant when I was a teenager, more than once. The first time I was very new to the job and an old peugeot 505 estate pulled up beside the diesel pump and the guy asked me to fill it up. He spotted the problem before I had finished, luckilly, and we pushed it round to the workshop and drained the tank. The manager wasn't impressed but said it had happened to every forecourt attendent who'd worked there for many years, except of course himself when he had worked on the pumps years before. Later, the owner told me much the same except that if the manager had claimed it never happened to him, he was a liar .
I put petrol in a diesel golf another time, again the driver had pulled up right beside the unleaded pump and I hadn't heard the engine running. That time it was only about £10, the mechanic just told me to fill it to the brim with diesel, then he took id for quite a brisk spin.
The last one was a strange one, it was a mid 90's mitsubishi lancer, japanese import. The owner went nuts when she figured out I was putting unleaded in it :eek:. It was petrol and as far as I was concerned all post '93 petrols take unleaded. Must have been a highly strung version that needed higher octane but the unleaded on that forecourt back then was all super uneladed 98 octane.

Delta Kilo

Carawaystick wrote: »

In a petrol station in the town where the wife's from, they filled the underground tanks incorrectly - petrol in the diesel and diesel in the petrol....


I thought it's impossible to put diesel in a petrol ( well anything from about 90 onwards) as the nozzle doesn't fit. ( in normal circumstances of course, if the green pump is pumping diesel well.....)

I think I know what town you are talking about... It cost the filling station a fortune!

A friend of mine was working in a filling station last year. A span new, top of the range diesel Range Rover pulled up at the pump. The guy told him to fill it up. He brimmed it with petrol. The tank was almost empty. The guy in the Range Rover only twigged it when he got out to give him the money and he seen my friend putting back the petrol nozzle. It cost €400 to drain the thing! Needless to say, my friend didn't last that long in the filling station although he claims that the guy pulled up nearer to the petrol pump and didn't specify diesel!

Ya, i thought a diesel nozzle wouldn't fit into a petrol car. Its a bigger diameter but naturally, that means that you can put a petrol into a diesel!

wilson10

ClioV6 wrote: »

A bit of petrol would have done the diesel the world of good.

It's never happened to me. I've never been unfortunate enough to have to drive a diesel :P

The old saying, "Don't knock it if you ain't tried it"

I've been driving diesel for 15 years. I don't "have" to & would not go back to petrol if I won the lotto.

reitoei

wilson10 wrote: »

The old saying, "Don't knock it if you ain't tried it"

I've been driving diesel for 15 years. I don't "have" to & would not go back to petrol if I won the lotto.

I don't think they make a diesel Lamborghini.

wilson10

reitoei wrote: »

I don't think they make a diesel Lamborghini.

Good on you Jeremy

alias no.9

reitoei wrote: »

I don't think they make a diesel Lamborghini.

Of course they do

biko

Always a petrol head

reverandkenjami

In my old job, we had a guy come in with a brand new X5 diesel he filled with petrol. He didn't notice it untill the car came to a stop and wouldn't start - cost €7k to fix :eek:

nhlrules

This happened to me 4 week ago

Driving my S60 D5 the fuel light came on but i didnt bother getting fuel till the next day

When I did go into the station i filled the car right up with petrol
64.13 euros worth

Drove about a mile to my daughters school and broke down in the car park

I got the car back the next day and drained the tank(6 hours LOL) ,Needed to bleed the system and that was it

Started no problem

Then chucked the petrol into the misssus mondeo lol


all ended well

Sam Kade

The black coloured nozzle is means diesel and the green coloured one means petrol:rolleyes:

Dublin1600

Last month I put €10 worth of home heating oil into a diesel. Went to a garage I've never been before and parked beside the pump, went past the green petrol pumps to what I thought was the diesel pump only to discover it was home heating oil. First time I ever saw a garage selling home heating oil from a pump. Filled up the rest of the tank with diesel, runs fine

yea i was smuggling a load of cocaine in off the coast of cork last year... fekin put diesel into the petrol engine

wasn't my face red when it hit the newspapers

Sam Kade

Dublin1600 wrote: »

Last month I put €10 worth of home heating oil into a diesel. Went to a garage I've never been before and parked beside the pump, went past the green petrol pumps to what I thought was the diesel pump only to discover it was home heating oil. First time I ever saw a garage selling home heating oil from a pump. Filled up the rest of the tank with diesel, runs fine

What you put in was green diesel its marked as gas oil.

destroyer

I did it a few years back, diesel tank half full of petrol before i copped..
filled it the rest of the way with diesel , then an eggcup of lube oil for
lubrication ,never went better though the engine did race a bit.

wilson10

Dublin1600 wrote: »

Last month I put €10 worth of home heating oil into a diesel. Went to a garage I've never been before and parked beside the pump, went past the green petrol pumps to what I thought was the diesel pump only to discover it was home heating oil. First time I ever saw a garage selling home heating oil from a pump. Filled up the rest of the tank with diesel, runs fine

If the customs & excise dipped your tank you could face losing your car or at least paying a hefty fine. They've heard all the excuses before.

Dublin1600

Sam Kade wrote: »

What you put in was green diesel its marked as gas oil.

It wasn't green diesel it was kerosene, I went into the garage when I found out about my mistake and they told me it was home heating oil, I filled up the rest of the car with diesel.

wilson10

Dublin1600 wrote: »

It wasn't green diesel it was kerosene, I went into the garage when I found out about my mistake and they told me it was home heating oil, I filled up the rest of the car with diesel.

Kerosene is unusual on the forecourt, the filling station opposite the hospital in Dundalk has it but you have to prepay before they switch the pump on, so it's unlikely that anyone would put it in their car.

It's handy but expensive if you let the heating run out.

Spunog UIE

any time I hear of this happening can't help but think of this Volkswagen TV Ad

wilson10

esSpoono wrote: »

any time I hear of this happening can't help but think of this Volkswagen TV Ad

That is hilarious. I can't believe they went to the trouble of making it thinking that they would get it on air.

Pity they didn't get away with it though.

johndaman66

Never happened to me. Worked as a forecourt attendant in a filling station some years back to get myself through college. Although I honestly never made the mistake a number of colleagues did. It used to surprise me the number of people who would come in to fuel and wouldn't have a clue if they were driving a petrol or diesel. Specially the yankies in rented out cars...a lot of them would be looking at you as if you had two heads when you would ask them petrol or diesel.

A lot of fellas would on purpose throw in a fiver of petrol first (in the day when petrol was a lot cheaper) and then fill up with diesel. They would swear by it to get them through the nct or doe as it would clean the injectors as far as I recall. I'm not sure if this would be a good idea on a modern diesel though...

Apparently before I started there a fella who wasn't too long started at the time and definately a bit green when it came to cars at the time...A customer asked him to check their oil level and he assumed it should be filled to the very top until it was gonna flow out the top of the engine which he did so (I assume the customer went into the shop to get some messages when he was doing so). Made sh!te of the engine.

L1011

wilson10 wrote: »

That is hilarious. I can't believe they went to the trouble of making it thinking that they would get it on air.

Pity they didn't get away with it though.

Pretending it was made to be aired is part of the scam; it was made to be an internet viral ad - which it did very effectively!

wilson10

My brother owns a filling station and has had a number of misfuelings but the funniest thing ever was a few years ago a guy came in with an overheating problem and decided that he needed to top up with water so he removed the oil filler cap & filled the engine to the brim.

Luckily it failed to start and his brother, who is a mechanic came with a towtruck & took it away.

What intrigued me was that out of the family of father & three sons he is the only one not involved in the motor trade & obviousely has no clue what goes on under the bonnet.

SV

esSpoono wrote: »

any time I hear of this happening can't help but think of this Volkswagen TV Ad

Funny that the Passat is one of the noisiest diesels that exists.