Petrol in a diesel !!!!

[BlueFocus]

Evening,

I have a 2007 1.8 diesel Focus.

Yesterday whilst filling it i realised i had a green pump in my hand not a black one - bugger. In 20 years i have never made that mistake, i guess there is always a first. I put in about £22 worth in.

I managed to find an older post on Pistonheads suggesting if you were to fill the tank with diesel it should be ok as the petrol would be diluted ?

Does that wisdom still hold true ?

I drove it about 1 mile home and haven't used it since.

Thanks

[BlueFocus]

Thank you for your replies, will look into getting it drained.

Yes the car is blue !!

[BlueFocus]

Megaflow said:

Jimmy No Hands said:

What's the correlation between car age and it standing up to being misfuelled?

It's what, £200 quid to drop the contents of the tank and then you're certain, it might last another ten years with maintenance.

But when you need a new fuel pump, injectors, and Christ knows whatever else you'll wish you had just got it sorted properly.

It’s a 14 year old car. The average age of a scrapped car in the U.K. is 13.9 years according to the SMMT. It might survive another 10 years, but statistically it is highly unlikely it has got much more than a couple of years in. How lucky does the OP feel?

That is a fair point.

It is on 160k miles and the bite on the clutch is high.