Well, what has he put in his tank

[ianrauk]

Saw this on the way to work this morning. The picture doesn't really convey how much more smoke then actually show's here.

 

[661-Pete]

Diesel in a petrol engine would do that. I'm not sure about the other way around (never tried! ) Anyway, totally illegal.

 

[Archie_tect]

Spent a small fortune getting diesel drained out of our car's petrol tank thanks to No.1 son misfueling on Saturday when we were 300 miles away in London for a long week-end. Don't tell me I've wasted the money and it wouldn't have mattered. i know petrol in a diesel engine menas new engine but not sure how seriously you need to be taking diesel out or the critical volume!!

Learning experience No.68,442

 

[potsy]

Wow, your OCD must have been in overdrive if you got anywhere near that

 

[rusky]

A guy at work put petrol in the company van. Probably did 50-100 miles before he noticed the loss of power.

Cost £1K to sort it. I thought he was going to cry when we told him how much it cost to rectify

 

[661-Pete]

[QUOTE 1167418"]
Diesel in a petrol engine would complete **** it (for want of a better expression).[/quote]True enough, but it depends on the mix, since there will always be a proportion of petrol still in the tank to dilute the diesel. Anyway the engine will still run for several miles before seizing. You have a chance - though expensive! (I should point out that I have no first-hand experience of this: though my father once had a bag of sugar emptied into his tank by some little scrote or whoever. Cost him a new engine...)

 

[Norm]

i know petrol in a diesel engine menas new engine ...

Not necessarily... as someone who has done it twice in the same car. The engine ran fine after a drain down, right up to the point that someone drove straight into the front of it.

 

[Globalti]

In the old days truck drivers used to add petrol to their diesel tanks to prevent waxing in cold weather.

 

[gaz]

You used to be able to get away with diesel in a petrol or visa versa in old engines. not so much now in this newer stuff.

 

[CounterfeitKelly]

I once put diesel in a petrol cavalier. realised what a #wat I'd been after about 3£ worth so filled the rest of the (fairly empty)tank wityh petrol and topped up at every opportunity for the next few weeks. The engine 'burped' once or twice but continued to run reliably for another ten years. I never did it again though... I got away with it.

 

[ianrauk]

Cylinder head gaskets gone, its steam.

nope... not steam.
It was definitely fuel.

 

[DavieB]

True enough, but it depends on the mix, since there will always be a proportion of petrol still in the tank to dilute the diesel. Anyway the engine will still run for several miles before seizing. You have a chance - though expensive! (I should point out that I have no first-hand experience of this: though my father once had a bag of sugar emptied into his tank by some little scrote or whoever. Cost him a new engine...)

I had 5 brake downs in one day for sugar in fuel tanks a few years ago, a bunch of hippy's thought it would be funny to sabotage the local abattoirs trucks. They also decided to spray murderers on the side of each truck, shame it never happened later on would have been double time!

 

[661-Pete]

Here's some info from those with experience!

 

[ianrauk]

Its a van so i'm presuming its a diesel. Fuel pump timing problems will produce white smoke, but I have never seen that problem produce anything like that. Has to be head gasket, so one of two things, oil getting in, it would be notably blueish and absolutely stink, so i still reckon its water.

And stink it did, to high heaven. And smelt of fuel.
As I said the picture doesn't show how much smoke there actually was.

 

[Davidc]

In the old days truck drivers used to add petrol to their diesel tanks to prevent waxing in cold weather.

A small quantity of unleaded in a tankful of diesel.

Now to stop diesel freezing the diesel you buy in winter has different additives than that you buy in summer (or so I'm told).