£4.70 unleaded in a diesel.
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Got up at stupid oclock to go to work, car had just under a half a tank of disel, thought I'd top it up as the petrol staton,put £4.70 worth of unleaded in, about 4 litres, realised straight away, stopped and brimmed it with disel, it's a 2012 Renault meganne 1.5 Td, will it be okay? Any tips appreciated!
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I wouldnt drive it if possible, i once put £5 worth of petrol into a diesal and after realising my mistake i topped up the rest of the tank with (about £50 of) diesal. This lead to numerous little issues with the car not running right and causing me issues with the water pump and mildly reconditining the turbo, DOnt know how exactly this was affected or if it needed doing anyway but i do remember it causing considerable damage which wouldve cost alot more than a simple drain and clean!
Raman Kandola said:
I wouldnt drive it if possible, i once put £5 worth of petrol into a diesal and after realising my mistake i topped up the rest of the tank with (about £50 of) diesal. This lead to numerous little issues with the car not running right and causing me issues with the water pump and mildly reconditining the turbo, DOnt know how exactly this was affected or if it needed doing anyway but i do remember it causing considerable damage which wouldve cost alot more than a simple drain and clean!
I can't see how either of those issues would have been caused by the wrong fuel.Tim
Depends on the age of the diesel. My old 110 bhp Passat TDI (the tractor engined one) actually ran slightly better for having a gallon of petrol in the tank (the rest topped up with diesel though! This was Winter which was probably why. OP, as people have said, keep it topped up with diesel and it should be fine. Not ideal, but it should be ok. Unless it's a really really highly strung modern diesel.
It's always better - or not as bad - to put unleaded in a diseasel rather than t'other way round - it may cough a bit when a lump goes through, but it'll work fine.
A friend of mine always ran contaminated fuel in his petrol Golf, 'cos it was about 90p a litre, and that survived - don't see why yours wouldn't.
Maybe think about getting a tub of Millers diseasel additive, a bigish bottle for about £12 where one adds about 50ml to 50l of fuel - lasts about 10 tanks, just to give it a more potent chance of firing cleanly (?) Just an idea.
A friend of mine always ran contaminated fuel in his petrol Golf, 'cos it was about 90p a litre, and that survived - don't see why yours wouldn't.
Maybe think about getting a tub of Millers diseasel additive, a bigish bottle for about £12 where one adds about 50ml to 50l of fuel - lasts about 10 tanks, just to give it a more potent chance of firing cleanly (?) Just an idea.
I once put about 4 galls of unleaded in a modern diesel(2013 Mazda Skyactive Diesel) by mistake. Stopped filling it and then brimmed it with diesel, ragged it in 4th on the motorway for 50 miles to burn off the contaminated fuel, topped it up frequently after that and it ran fine after.
Just to make you feel better OP, I put 75 litres of unleaded in my diesel last year! now THAT was stupid!
Thankfully I realised my mistake before starting it, so I had a wait for the fuel pumping guy... two hours later after realising we'd never get a hose past the anti-syphon we had to empty the tank my running my engine from his fuel supply and having the pump push out all the fuel.
75 litres of fuel + 75 litres of the right fuel + £250-ish for the fuel guy, + New fuel filter.
An expensive stop at the services!
D'oh.
Thankfully I realised my mistake before starting it, so I had a wait for the fuel pumping guy... two hours later after realising we'd never get a hose past the anti-syphon we had to empty the tank my running my engine from his fuel supply and having the pump push out all the fuel.
75 litres of fuel + 75 litres of the right fuel + £250-ish for the fuel guy, + New fuel filter.
An expensive stop at the services!
D'oh.
Edited by ILoveMondeo on Friday 22 August 08:36
Spoof said:
OGR4M said:
It's always better - or not as bad - to put unleaded in a diseasel rather than t'other way round - it may cough a bit when a lump goes through, but it'll work fine.
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Or, completely the opposite. .
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