Dealer put petrol into my diesel car

Ebe_Scrooge

Geodark wrote: »

Did this myself a few years back, filled the tank with petrol and drove home - started coughing and chugging as I turned into my street. Drained and flushed the tank and refilled with diesel - car is still going strong. 12 year old 1.7cdti astra - and it still does 63ish MPG on a long run, so can't have done much damage - the petrol gave my injectors a good clean if nowt else

Did a very similar thing - well my wife did when she borrowed my car, grrr. Filled with petrol, drove until it was spluttering really badly, managed to nurse it to our mechanic. He drained and refilled the tank, and said he added a good glug of oil to the fuel ???? Anyhow, whatever he did, I did another 60,000 miles in it before I sold it on with never any hint of a problem.

Admittedly a 12-year-old runabout is a different kettle of fish to a near-as-dammit brand new car, but it just goes to show that you can sometimes get away with these things.