Diesel car UNLEADED FUEL

TiTheRev

Recent bill for petrol in a Tiguan with Common Rail diesel engine...?

£3600 :shocked:

New injectors, pump, fuel lines, fuel rail, filters etc and about 6hours labour!

Mark_Hewitt

vikingaero wrote: »

It doesn't help when you drive several cars over the course of a day, and the petrol stations who don't have standardised colours for their pumps.

Do they not? I thought it was always green for unleaded and black for diesel?

Inactive

Mark_Hewitt wrote: »

Do they not? I thought it was always green for unleaded and black for diesel?

So did I, they are in my neck of the woods.;)

AlexisV

It doesn't help when petrol stations have black hoses but green nozzles.

casper_g

Mark_Hewitt wrote: »

Do they not? I thought it was always green for unleaded and black for diesel?

Or yellow for diesel, or blue (I think I've seen blue somewhere). Still, they always write "Diesel", which makes it better than France where they might put "Diesel", "Gazole" or "Gas Oil" depending on what mood they're in.

Inactive

Perhaps the filling stations should revert back to the good old days when the filthy smelly stuff was sold from a pump well away from petrol.:)

onetomany

i put unleaded in my desial car cost me 119 to draine and new filter lines but runs fine

petrolhead69

The hdi commonrail engine in the 407 has quite a weak pump, so use millers for the next few tankfulls. in a month or so have the filter changed again and ask the mechanic to carefully look for metal fragments in the filter. If there is its very bad news, if not you got away with it.

maxmycardagain

AlexisV wrote: »

It doesn't help when petrol stations have black hoses but green nozzles.

I try to pick up the handle that has "DIESEL" on it.............:rotfl:

Flyboy152

gilbert_and_sullivan wrote: »

Hmm, that's about 5 gallons, which is too much to dilute with further DERV top up IMO.

Did your car run OK on the way home, cos 5 galls of petrol should have caused it to run rather badly unless you already had roughly that amount of Derv in the tank, in other words are you absolutely sure you put petrol in.

Assuming you did misfuel, you'll need to get someone to come to you and drain the fuel tank, preferably by syphoning, and to blow through the fuel lines too, probably a local small indy garage would be best, hopefully £100 plus filter plus fresh fuel will cover it, much depends where you live.

Have them put a new fuel filter on before priming and restarting the engine, and for good measure grab yourself a bottle of Millers or Forte Diesel fuel additive, and sling a good dose in the tank.

The fuel that's syphoned out, i'd keep it and gradually use it a gallon or so at a time in a petrol car..the mechanic that does the job for you will likely do this anyway.

The AA/RAC will do it, but they will charge, but not as much as a independent, if you are a member. RAC charge £175 for members. The last time someone I knew did it, a local independent garage charged him just under three hundred pounds, including towing and call out.