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Model specific boards => Golf mk5 => Topic started by: Jayy on 13 May 2009, 22:36
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as above,
mate of mine, accidently put diesel into a petrol engine
2008 08, 1.4 TSI Match..
drove around 100 yards max..
was £10 petrol in first, roughly 135miles range, £10 diesel put in after range went up to 235
car has not been drove since, its getting cleared 2mr, do you guys think there will be any problems?
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how did he manage that?the diesel nossle is too big to fit in a petrol car!
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If it was not started then no damage, now it has been started you may be lucky or could be expensive including the cat failing.
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It was driven = its fecked!
How the hell did he put the diesel hose in? Its almost impossible to put diesel in a petrol :laugh:
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It was driven = its fecked!
How the hell did he put the diesel hose in? Its almost impossible to put diesel in a petrol :laugh:
Apperently not. Could be messy that....................................................
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can be put right but costs £££££££
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Diesel in petrol is fine, just drain the tank and fill it back up with unleaded. The only thing it could of knackered is the CAT.
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I would have thought the whole fuel system would be at risk, pump, rail, injectors.
I made a fatal error when I was in Germany a few years back during the World Cup. I filled up half the tank with the black nozzle - when some woman starts waving and shouting something in German, so I stop filling, thinking we had to pay first, my dad, in a rush, pushes me out the way and keeps filling to the top.
Granted, his car was a Diesel - but we filled it to the neck with 2 stroke mix!. This was at 10pm at night, so we couldn't drive the car anywhere. I had to sleep in it, then push it down to this car garage just down the road, they flushed the tank for 10 Euros!
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It was driven = its fecked!
Not neccesarily, Petrol in a Diesel car is much worse.
You might be lucky and get away with just emptying the tank and filling to the brim with petrol.
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It will smoke a bit as the diesel burns off but it won't damage the engine. It will damage the cat though, at the very best it will reduce its life.
Petrol in a diesel engine will fcuk it.
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Petrol in a diesel engine will fcuk it.
not in my experience
bloke i bought my car off filled mine up with £20 of petrol; it conked out, drained the tank, brimmed it with diesel and 3.5 years later its running sweet as a nut
always thought diesel in petrol was certain death
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Its usually the other way round, modern diesels rely on the fuel itself to lubcricate a lot of the components (because of the immense fuel pressure they run). Petrol doesn't lubricate by nature, it dries things out - so the end result of petrol in a diesel is normall huge amounts of wear to the fuel pump and injectors.
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As above petrol in a diesel is a lot worse we have had a few company cars die because of it.
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Hmm not sure about that.. My brother has done this 4 times (petrol in a diesel) and carried on driving them until they stop. They always seem to keep working afterwards.
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Hmm not sure about that.. My brother has done this 4 times (petrol in a diesel) and carried on driving them until they stop. They always seem to keep working afterwards.
Olders diesels can cope with it but modern common rails will not, I know on 5th gear a few years back and they had an old diesel which they put petrol in and it carried on working.
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Petrol in a diesel engine will fcuk it.
Funny :laugh: When I was a nipper I remember my grandad telling me how he would put a tipple of petrol in his diesel to "thin it out" a bit! :laugh:
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Old diesels can tolerate pretty much anything - but a modern high fuel pressure diesel won't.
The OP is talking about diesel in a petrol though ...
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Hmm not sure about that.. My brother has done this 4 times (petrol in a diesel) and carried on driving them until they stop. They always seem to keep working afterwards.
Olders diesels can cope with it but modern common rails will not, I know on 5th gear a few years back and they had an old diesel which they put petrol in and it carried on working.
MK5 2.0 TDi :huh:
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Hmm not sure about that.. My brother has done this 4 times (petrol in a diesel) and carried on driving them until they stop. They always seem to keep working afterwards.
Olders diesels can cope with it but modern common rails will not, I know on 5th gear a few years back and they had an old diesel which they put petrol in and it carried on working.
MK5 2.0 TDi :huh:
Very lucky, you may still get problems in the future.
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Hmm not sure about that.. My brother has done this 4 times (petrol in a diesel) and carried on driving them until they stop. They always seem to keep working afterwards.
Olders diesels can cope with it but modern common rails will not, I know on 5th gear a few years back and they had an old diesel which they put petrol in and it carried on working.
MK5 2.0 TDi :huh:
Very lucky, you may still get problems in the future.
Now sold :grin:
(thankfully)