Charged for filling diesel van with petrol

AlexisV

Rev limit will be about 4k on a diesel, 6.5 on a petrol.

Hintza

EdGasket wrote: »

....... as it is an unauthorised transaction.

It's not an unauthorised transaction, you agreed to it when you signed their T&Cs.

k12479

Buellguy wrote: »

Transit size and above do they even make petrol vans????

Yes they do. Transits, Sprinters, etc but generally not for the UK market.

skivenov

Foxy-Stoat wrote: »

You cannot put diesel in a petrol car, but you can put petrol in a diesel car as diesel nozzles are larger.

Gotta admit, there's been times, even having driven a vehicle a fair way, that I'm in doubt. The worst one was running out of fuel on a dual carriageway, at night, in the rain, climbing up the bank, through a hedge and over a fence, then walking half a mile to a garage I knew. Walking in, in my shirt and tie coverred in leaves and crap, buying a can, doing the walk of shame to the pump, then asking myself....

"Was it a petrol or a diesel?" _pale_

judderman62

googler wrote: »

On balance, I think I'm with the hire company.

From my experience of diesels, it's fairly obvious that they're noisier than petrol engines, and they usually have a delay before starting up whilst the glowplugs heat up (and there's a warning light on the dash to show this).

Take it you drove it away from the hire company and filled it up later?

maybe the diesels from 25 years ago yes but not modern ones.

I have a diesel and had one before my previous car and neither exhibited any of what you say.

I would normally hope I would ask when being given the show round the car and find it incredible if they did not tell you.

paddedjohn

googler wrote: »

On balance, I think I'm with the hire company.

From my experience of diesels, it's fairly obvious that they're noisier than petrol engines, and they usually have a delay before starting up whilst the glowplugs heat up (and there's a warning light on the dash to show this).

Take it you drove it away from the hire company and filled it up later?

Obviously you dont have much experience of newer (last 15 years) diesels, sprinters, vw's, renaults etc they all start on the key without needing to prewarm the glow plugs and they are actually quite qiuiet nowdays too.;)

I do agree though that the hire company are probably right here and have let the OP off lightly by only charging £270.

SailorSam

You can get away with putting some petrol in a diesel van without doing any damage, that's probably why they're only charging you for draining and re-rilling. You were lucky.
Going back a number of years before modern diesel fuel we would add perhaps a gallon of petrol to the Cabs when filling up in the winter. It stopped the fuel freezing over night, Modern fuels have done away with the need to do that now.

Destination_..._?

I wonder if op accidentally used a different brand petrol station to what he normally goes too . Some how , Failed to recognise different petrol and diesel markings at the pumps . I have experienced going to some petrol stations smaller outfits , had to look very carefully for a moment to pick the correct pump handle .

Sgt_Pepper_2

Destination_..._? wrote: »

I wonder if op accidentally used a different brand petrol station to what he normally goes too . Some how , Failed to recognise different petrol and diesel markings at the pumps . I have experienced going to some petrol stations smaller outfits , had to look very carefully for a moment to pick the correct pump handle .

How is this an issue when he didn't know what fuel the vehicle took?

Mistral001

SailorSam wrote: »

You can get away with putting some petrol in a diesel van without doing any damage, that's probably why they're only charging you for draining and re-rilling. You were lucky.
Going back a number of years before modern diesel fuel we would add perhaps a gallon of petrol to the Cabs when filling up in the winter. It stopped the fuel freezing over night, Modern fuels have done away with the need to do that now.

One garage man told me the same thing about people with diesel cars putting a gallon of petrol in along with a fill up of deisel. I have done it by mistake with a deisel car I have had and it had no harmful effect on the engine. I think it had nearly 200k miles on the clock when I sold it. I suppose that is low mileage for a deisel car but nonethe less I was impressed. I suppose it all depends on the car. If it was my brand new BMW I would be more careful and probably stump up the £100's to get the petrol removed.