norm75
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Has anyone used any companies that come out and drain fuel, made a mistake earlier and put £30 diesel in my petrol. I did not start it as realised mid fill.
In my defence your honour, v power pumps in petrol and diesel flavour look far to similar to quickly tell them apart.
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Thought you couldn’t get a diesel nozzle in an unleaded tank filler?
Clearly you can
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My er, mate.
Yes definitely my mate used forecourt assist north east after filling up my, er
I mean "their" diesel van with unleaded.
They were half the aa charge and I, they persuaded them just to drain and not do the whole engine flush as they hadn't started it.
They also did it on the forecourt instead of recovering the van to a safe area.
I mean I, or they.
Anyway it definitely wasn't me that brimmed, from empty my van with unleaded before I had to drive 200 miles on a Friday afternoon
Good luck. It could happen to anyone.
But not me, definitely not me.
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Rich
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Wrong fuel recovery servicesRich
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Thought you couldn’t get a diesel nozzle in an unleaded tank filler? Clearly you can *modern unleaded tank filler. Older stuff is just a hole in which to pour fuel. |
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I did this years ago, putting diesel in my Mk1 Golf gti.
Felt a right plonker but the RAC came out and towed me to a garage who drained my tank.
Cost about £100 back then added to which I had to again fill the tank with the right fuel.
It's something I reckon you only do once!
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I’ve only sort of nearly (kind of did) done it once. I put about half a gallon in a GPZ600, which was my brothers. I realised & stopped. Now you might say half a gallon is nowt, but in a bike a suppose it’s a fair proportion of the overall amount.
I filled it to the brim with petrol & drove off. It smoked a bit & ran a bit curse word. I then just kept stopping about every 50 mile or so & filling it up with petrol, sort of diluting every time. It was fine after a couple of top ups. Tbh if you’re gonna do it diesel in a petrol is the lesser of two evils I guess
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norm75
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Thought you couldn’t get a diesel nozzle in an unleaded tank filler? Clearly you can *modern unleaded tank filler. Older stuff is just a hole in which to pour fuel. yeh I’m not sure if it’s the age of the car as it’s a 54 plate or the fact it’s a jdm import and they don’t have that feature? And as for the AA, my Mrs has cover with her platinum bank account that is suppose to cover the whole family. I phone up and tell them this but nope, I’m not named on the cover! Despite being married to her. And they said it would be a charge and not covered on the policy anyway. They said it would be £285, which I begrudgingly might have paid, until they told me I would have to wait on the freezing forecourt for 5 hours! |
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norm75
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I’ve only sort of nearly (kind of did) done it once. I put about half a gallon in a GPZ600, which was my brothers. I realised & stopped. Now you might say half a gallon is nowt, but in a bike a suppose it’s a fair proportion of the overall amount. I filled it to the brim with petrol & drove off. It smoked a bit & ran a bit curse word. I then just kept stopping about every 50 mile or so & filling it up with petrol, sort of diluting every time. It was fine after a couple of top ups. Tbh if you’re gonna do it diesel in a petrol is the lesser of two evils I guess yeh but we are talking a 280 brake twin scroll turbo J wagon that is supposed to run 100 octane so I only ever dare put 99 Ron in it. |
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I’ve only sort of nearly (kind of did) done it once. I put about half a gallon in a GPZ600, which was my brothers. I realised & stopped. Now you might say half a gallon is nowt, but in a bike a suppose it’s a fair proportion of the overall amount. I filled it to the brim with petrol & drove off. It smoked a bit & ran a bit curse word. I then just kept stopping about every 50 mile or so & filling it up with petrol, sort of diluting every time. It was fine after a couple of top ups. Tbh if you’re gonna do it diesel in a petrol is the lesser of two evils I guess yeh but we are talking a 280 brake twin scroll turbo J wagon that is supposed to run 100 octane so I only ever dare put 99 Ron in it. Yes but at the end of the day diesel is only oil, bit like putting pre-mix 2 stroke in 😀 |
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Rich
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Wrong fuel recovery servicesRich
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yeh but we are talking a 280 brake twin scroll turbo J wagon that is supposed to run 100 octane so I only ever dare put 99 Ron in it. Yes but at the end of the day diesel is only oil, bit like putting pre-mix 2 stroke in 😀 Too much diesel will cause knock. I’ve ran a modern, fully ignition timing controlled car on waste mix and it pinks like crazy under load. Not so much a bother in a Kia Venga. Maybe more concerning on something nice and spicy. |
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I did this years ago, putting diesel in my Mk1 Golf gti. Felt a right plonker but the RAC came out and towed me to a garage who drained my tank. Cost about £100 back then added to which I had to again fill the tank with the right fuel. It's something I reckon you only do once!You've clearly never dealt with fleet vehicles then! One of the fitters found it funny after filling the Transit with petrol and driving it until it stopped for the fourth time in less than a year. He wasn't happy when we charged him for the recovery, fuel drain, disposal of the contaminated fuel, and the original cost of the petrol. He complained about all that - it was over £500 - so we went to the boss together. On hearing that it was the fourth time, he was told that if he didn't get back to work he would be paying for the other three. The Police workshop posted a monthly misfuelled graph on the notice board in reception. One of my colleagues managed a full tank of petrol in a recovery truck. There are lots of people who can't be trusted to be out on their own. Many of them drive.... |
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norm75
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I did this years ago, putting diesel in my Mk1 Golf gti. Felt a right plonker but the RAC came out and towed me to a garage who drained my tank. Cost about £100 back then added to which I had to again fill the tank with the right fuel. It's something I reckon you only do once!You've clearly never dealt with fleet vehicles then! One of the fitters found it funny after filling the Transit with petrol and driving it until it stopped for the fourth time in less than a year. He wasn't happy when we charged him for the recovery, fuel drain, disposal of the contaminated fuel, and the original cost of the petrol. He complained about all that - it was over £500 - so we went to the boss together. On hearing that it was the fourth time, he was told that if he didn't get back to work he would be paying for the other three. The Police workshop posted a monthly misfuelled graph on the notice board in reception. One of my colleagues managed a full tank of petrol in a recovery truck. There are lots of people who can't be trusted to be out on their own. Many of them drive.... About 30 years ago I stuck a fiver of petrol in a mk3 diesel van and then topped it up with diesel and it was ok, but other than that this is the only time I’ve ever done it in the 30 years I’ve been driving. I was a courier for over twenty years so have filled up a fair few times. I was picking someone up an hour away, just as I was leaving my wife rang because her car wouldn’t start, so had to go and jump her car before leaving so was in a bit of a rush, and didn’t have time to get fuel where I normally do. On the way home my fuel reading suddenly dropped from 50 kilometres straight to 0 so stopped at a garage and mixed up the identical looking v power pumps. |
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So here's a fun fact... in the USA, at least in California, petrol pumps are black and diesel are green. Sooo, a few years ago when visiting my dad in Ireland and tired as f... I went out to fuel up the diesel rental car, at around the 20 Euro mark I realized I had screwed up there might be a small problem - on auto pilot and tired it hadn't even occurred to me that over there the green pump is petrol and the black diesel 
Obviously I called a breakdown service and paid an arm and a leg to rectify my mistake... wait, no... I am remembering now - I topped off with diesel and kept doing so every 100 Kms or so - it ran like a well oiled sewing machine tractor for quite some time after... it was so bad that I dare not turn it off while we crossed the Shannon on the ferry. Short story long, it survived - or at least, I never got a bill from Hertz  |
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I believe 5th gear did a wrong fuel drive trial
here it is
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Needs a bigger hammer mate.......
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Dec 10, 2022 10:01:09 GMT
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I did this years ago, putting diesel in my Mk1 Golf gti. Felt a right plonker but the RAC came out and towed me to a garage who drained my tank. Cost about £100 back then added to which I had to again fill the tank with the right fuel. It's something I reckon you only do once!You've clearly never dealt with fleet vehicles then! .. Clearly. I'll shut up and get back in my box! |
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Dec 10, 2022 12:05:01 GMT
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I've done it both ways. The first time was in a fairly new (at the time) Maestro van, it was a petrol, my workmates put diesel in it. I realised what he was doing, but by then I had a good half a tank. We stopped, brimmed it with petrol, and carried on. It left a trail of smoke that the blind could follow, but carried on until the tank was empty, filled it with petrol and it was all good again. The second tome I put about quarter of a tank of petrol into my 2004 Isuzu pick up. I realised what I'd done and just brimmed it with diesel. If anything it actually ran better, of course to this day my wife hasn't let me forget it.  |
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Dec 10, 2022 12:16:03 GMT
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I did this years ago, putting diesel in my Mk1 Golf gti. Felt a right plonker but the RAC came out and towed me to a garage who drained my tank. Cost about £100 back then added to which I had to again fill the tank with the right fuel. It's something I reckon you only do once! Nope 😂 filled a Vespa twice in one week with diesel, was my Dad's that I borrowed as mine was off thd road. |
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Dec 10, 2022 14:16:58 GMT
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wildrover's post was interesting about the way things are in the States.
I once got called out by the local Ferrari specialist to go get a guy who had put diesel in his Ferrari. He was a Brit based in the States who was over for a month and got his Ferrari out of storage to use while here. He told me that out there you would have to drive to the wrong pump island to get the wrong fuel because the pump islands never have both fuels on the same one. So he drove to an island here, saw petrol and just grabbed a nozzle. I suspect jetlag may have played a part.
I often relate that to people that I am taking to their garage who are facing a few hundred quid bill to put their moment's inattention right. In the hope that it might help them by deflecting the blame a little.
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Dec 10, 2022 14:47:19 GMT
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*Touches wood*
I haven't done it... yet.
As an apprentice I did once pour screen wash down the oil filler tube on a SedAk wagon, in my defence the oil filler was where the screen wash filler would be on a Foden (which I was used to working on).
I had sloshed 3 gallons in, thinking "wow the screenwash bottle is massive on these Atkis, that'll do."
Luckily it had had an oil change, and the fitter who did it dipped the oil before the owner turned up, realised what had happened and we changed the oil quick time, just putting the filler cap on as the owner/driver strolled into the garage to collect it.
I still shudder to think what would have happened if he started it.
I learned my lesson.
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