Petrol Muppet.

Is there a category for filling a diesel car up with Petrol?

(Note: I haven't started it, and won't be doing, so should have
escaped any serious damage)

 

cockend!

 

If it's a company car then the normal category is unemployed.

Are you sure?

 

Did mine Saturday afternoon, around 16:00, boy who was towing to
garage, for a monday start, offered to do a homer for 60 notes... and
everything was fine.

Not something to repeat... it's just I don't have the car often.

Hj

 

btdtgtts - AFAIK on some cars you don't even have to start 'em before
the fuel pump kicks in.

We thought we had got away with it - the injector pump lasted about
another year - then you are into huge bills - injectors, fuel lines,
pump, tank etc.

 

Doubt it'd go that far, it was an honest mistake and the car hasn't
been driven.

The fleet lease people seemed fairly ok about it when I phoned them.
Were happy I'd not started it and that towing it home was ok provided
I didn't turn the engine over.

I expect they'll just drain the entire system, stick in some diesel
and it'll be fine - it can't be the first time it's ever happened.

 

Filled it right up. It had about 1/3 diesel.. and I stuck 2/3 petrol
on top so it was all ready for my trip tomorrow... My thinking now is
that petrol is lighter than diesel, so the petrol should pretty much
still be floating on top of the correct fuel and once they suck it out
and put fresh in, it'll be business as usual.

I'll bet I get stung for £2 or 3 hundred quid though, as it's not
going to be covered by fleet maintenance and is my fault.

Oh well, it is what it is.

 

On 18/04/2010 19:15, ginge wrote:

It should be covered by insurance. Accidental damage innit.

 

I have previous. Twice in fact. In the same car... in the same week.
First diesel I had. Fortunately it was a co-car.

First time I remembered before I started it so got hauled to a workshop
and they drained the tank, waste of a morning and a tank of fuel.

Second time I drove 100 miles or so before I thought that the engine
seemed hot in traffic and it was smoking a lot. The lease company were
less amused by this. Still they towed it away and sent it back later
that day. Did about another 10k in it (before I left) and it seemed ok.

 

Not a chance. It will be totally mixed in the tank.

 

This mirrors my experience, except the AA now have a flash van that
can do the job at the roadside. They've just finished and got pretty
much the full 55 litres out, stuck 10 litres of diesel in and I'm told
the car starts fine... going to find out for myself in a few mins.

Advice is to now brim it, run it for a 1/4 tank or so (not a problem
as I'm about to set out for milton Keynes) then brim it again.

 

MK?! It just goes from bad to worse, doesn't it?

 

Too right, and to add insult to injury I'm going to be in meetings
until rush hour, then have to face the M1 at the worst time of day.

 

I have done the same thing, at about 20k in my Mondeo, it went on to
120k with no problems.

 

Well, I've done 170 miles in it today, and if anything it seems to be
getting better mileage after it's flush-out, plus I've somehow managed
to put about 65 litres in a car with a 55 litre tank since this
morning, so I'd be surprised if there's any significant residual
petrol.

 

Now maybe I've been out of the country too long, but WTF does "brim" mean?

 

"as full as fucking possible"

HTH

 

Le plein.

 

Have you missed saying that, Tattoo?

 

Ah, I knew what brim means, but never knew it was now a verb.