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Jul 18, 2012 21:45:13 GMT
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Chaps..
So anyway my first diesel fill up today in my new daily (BMW E39)..
Well I managed to put £25 worth of petrol in before realising my absolute stupidity, followd by £70 of diesel to ?dilute it??
Anyway ive since done 70 miles with no problem..
Am I in the clear?
Cheers
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Current retro - 1996 Alfa Romeo GTV / Daily - 2016 Nissan Qashqai Previous retros - Prelude, Integra, XR2s, XR3s, Orions, CRXs, Sylvia S12, S13, Pulsar, ZX 16v, 205 Gti, MX5, MR2 etc
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nutter81
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Jul 18, 2012 21:51:00 GMT
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hmmm i would say you might be ok but this is your 666th so sorry
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Jul 18, 2012 21:53:50 GMT
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ha ha ha... yeah i noticed that!!
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Current retro - 1996 Alfa Romeo GTV / Daily - 2016 Nissan Qashqai Previous retros - Prelude, Integra, XR2s, XR3s, Orions, CRXs, Sylvia S12, S13, Pulsar, ZX 16v, 205 Gti, MX5, MR2 etc
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Jul 18, 2012 21:54:21 GMT
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Iunno, my mate did the same in his tranny van, it worked okay... I'd leave it myself. But then again I know nothing about BM's
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"A Pierburg carb? It would be more economical to replace it with a funnel..."
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Jul 18, 2012 23:29:09 GMT
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Might be worth chucking a bit of two-stroke oil in to add some lubrication.
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I won't say that it'll be ok, but if you do decide to run it keep topping up with derv when you've space for a fiver's worth.
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I've got Rovers.
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half a liter of 2 stork should do the job matey
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MiataMark
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Glad I'm not the only one... did this with my TD5 Discovery this week put 30lt of petrol into an empty tank. Advice was drain it, anything over 7lt is too much. Used a company called fuel doctor a nationwide franchise (who were excellent) to drain tank, which cost me £145 (plus the £40 of petrol I wasted), not a good day.
On the other hand my wife put petrol into a 300TDI Discovery, and topping up with diesel was fine.
I'm guessing if it's running then keep topping it up with diesel, any damage you may have caused has already been done.
Mark
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1990 Mazda MX-52012 BMW 118i (170bhp) - white appliance 2011 Land Rover Freelander 2 TD4 2003 Land Rover Discovery II TD52007 Alfa Romeo 159 Sportwagon JTDm
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tigran
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Not entirely in the clear.
There was a customer who did this to his '05 Audi Dizzle. It ran back from the continent on a similar mix of petrol and diesel. From full tank - then when it got to around quarter tank it s*** itself and decided that the injector seal didn't want to be an injector seal anymore.
But really had aspirations to be a travelling collage salesman.
As has been said really try and keep it brimmed with as much diesel as you can.
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tigran
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Or on second thoughts if you have a free evening, a spare battery, inline fuel pump and some hose kicking around - drain the diesel/petrol mix out of the top of the tank.
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1964 Rover P5 i6 1987 BMW 525e - The Rusty Streak 1992 Micra K10 2001 BMW E46 316i 2002 BMW E46 330Ci 2013 BMW F31 320d 2018 BMW G31 530d
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stealthstylz
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We used to recover loads of cars which had been driven after doing the same and were fine at first but then broke.
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MrBen
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One of my clients did this the other week in a brand new Jag XF dizzler. It went into Jag who proclaimed it needed £7k worth of repairs, and unless they were carried out the warranty would be null and void! Oops!
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Yeah, newer car... Boom.
I used to pop a drop of unleaded into my L400 Delica with a tankful as various forum reports suggested it was a good way of prolonging (for months, maybe weeks) iffy pump seals - but that was maybe a fiver into a full tank every 2nd or 3rd tank. If it were an old diesel, I'd chance trying to dilute it, but given how modern it is, I'd pump out the tank and then refill it - or, indeed, just pay for that draining service.
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MiataMark
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I'm guessing if it's running then keep topping it up with diesel, any damage you may have caused has already been done. Mark Actually I retract that, modern diesel, drain it and start again. Mark
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I'm guessing if it's running then keep topping it up with diesel, any damage you may have caused has already been done. Actually I retract that, modern diesel, drain it and start again. This was the advice I was told to stick to on anything more complex than an XUD. The XUD was the example because it was North Africa and it's ultra common there. The common-ish alternative were the VW SDi/TDi types and they were always failing because it wasn't unusual to be sold contaminated fuel at the side of the road. They often needed hoses and seals replaced, the language barrier prevented me finding out the detail of what they were talking about. Petrol engines, even very modern ones, seemed able to burn off the diesel and just ran really badly on the dodgy roadside fuel. What's the reasoning behind the two stoke oil suggestions?
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Jul 19, 2012 10:12:49 GMT
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What's the reasoning behind the two stoke oil suggestions? Diesel's slippery, petrol's not, and two-stroke oil is designed to be burnt. Draining it out sould be safer though.
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MrSpeedy
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Jul 19, 2012 11:53:38 GMT
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Common rail diesel + anything other than Derv = a world of pain, misery and an empty wallet. Drain it now whilst you still have a working motor
Chap round the corner chucked some kerosene in his Kia people carrier thing (MB dizzle engine) and all was good for a few miles, then it all went tits up as the injectors failed, Cost him £1K to have it sorted
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Jul 19, 2012 23:38:42 GMT
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£25 worth of petrol , what you worrying about , thats only about 2 litres these days
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Jul 20, 2012 17:08:56 GMT
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Drain it. On older cars with mechanical pumps you could get away with it. A modern common rail engine though? Nah! Bite the bullet and drain the tank or you could be in for a whole world of hate. If you whip the rear bench out and remove the sender unit(s) then it'll be easier than trying to get it out through the filler, plus you can get it all out.
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Jul 22, 2012 14:56:21 GMT
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Not sure,put a tenner in my merc ml 270cdi and realised,brimmed it then drove to Nottingham the next day,if anything it ran BETTER!!! Still,£25 is about 20 litres so that seems a lot. The gamble is whether to fill again and hope its ok or drain and be done with it. Not sure what to suggest,probably the safer option due to the cost of repair.
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