Unleaded BP Ultimate Petrol in a Diesel Car

movilogo

There are some devices available on the market which will prevent you from pouring petrol in a diesel tank. One was shown in Dragon's Den few months back. Their price ranges from £60-£80.

Search on web for "misfuel prevention" and you'll find them.

Lemonade_Pockets

To the OP what car do u drive - i hope its something a bit special with prices you've been quoted.

If its going to cost £5k to keep the warranty intact then f*ck the warranty. Also having a warranty is also not normally a condition of HP, does it say this explicitly on your agreement.

But more to the point £5k buys you a lot of garage time even with todays labour prices what exactly are they proposing to do for that amount of wedge.

New engine should be circa £5k max for most "normal" cars.

I would start of by taking the car to a local friendly garage, get them to drain the tank and flush the lines - this is normally enough. If that works nobody need be any the wiser. You'd be surprised how many times car's at dealerships get filled up with the wrong fuel, do they spend £5k to repair it - erm no they get the apprentice to spend a 1hr on it and its as right as rain!!! I did it a few times (easily done when your jumping in and out of different cars all day) when i first started selling including filling a £25k brand spanking new car with diesel and driving it back to the dlrship!

davesprinter

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vaio

big_gay_kirk wrote: »

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You mean to say that cheese & onion crisps actually have cheese in them?

bordercars

what a load of tripe.
petrol in diesel blah blah blah.

years ago to stop the diesel from going like jelly you put almost a full tank of diesel then a gallon of petrol, when the first small van (escort type) came out a mate of mine pulled in put 5 gallon of diesel in then a gallon of petrol. when he went to pay was charged for the petrol and the guy said the diesel customer must of done a runner.

i also made the mistake of petrol in a diesel, 45 ltr tank, i put about 15 litres in before i realised what i was doing, i then filled to the brim with diesel, about to do a 200 mile journey, at halfway stopped and filled again, then filled again on way home, the only problem came when trying to start a hot engine as there is no spark to ignite the petrol. that engine had covered about 20000 miles and went on to do 240000 without a problem. dont panic.

milliemonster

There was some challenge last year to manufacturer warranties that stated to keep them intact you could only have your car serviced at a main dealer, I can't remember where I saw this but the law favoured on the side of the consumer and it now states you can have your car repaired where you want and it will not affect your warranty, irresepective of what the dealer tells you have a look on the internet for the info

AdrianHi

Somehow an old thread from November 2008 got revived here.
I wonder how the original poster got on with this?
Taking it to an independant garage for repairs would be the best bet and never tell the local dealer or HP company. £5K to get you back under warranty is because they replace so much "just in case" when for only 2 miles of driving the damage will be pretty non-existant. Clean out the tank, fuel lines, replace fuel filters, fill up with diesel and on you go. Still a fairly length task but no where near £5K, more like a few hundred.

Mum_of_3_3

davesprinter wrote: »

Have a look at this: tullmaninnovations.com

This is probably why the old thread got revived - a bit of subtle spamming methinks!

M_o_3 (who started to read this thread cos her Mum did exactly the same thing recently!)