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Petrol in diesel car

  • 20-07-2017 9:48am
    #1
    Jasper79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 513 ✭✭✭


    So half asleep this morning pulling into petrol station, I put about 4.5 litres of petrol into my 1.6tdi toledo.

    Paniced and filled the car with diesel, approx 45 litres and continued to work about 1.5km.

    Should I get the tank drained or would any damage already be done and continue filling the tank with diesel for the next few weeks ?


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  • #2
    Ronaldinho
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 829 ✭✭✭Ronaldinho


    Jasper79 wrote: »
    So half asleep this morning pulling into petrol station, I put about 4.5 litres of petrol into my 1.6tdi toledo.

    Paniced and filled the car with diesel, approx 45 litres and continued to work about 1.5km.

    Should I get the tank drained or would any damage already be done and continue filling the tank with diesel for the next few weeks ?

    Should be OK with that little amount I think.


  • #3
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Toledo has a tank capacity of 55 litres I think.
    So 4.5 from 55 is 8%, which isn't much.
    Unless the car makes weird noises or lights come on, I would keep driving it and keep topping up every day for a week to keep ratio diesel to petrol as high as possible.


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