Petrol in my golf - glow plug light ??
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Ok cut a long story short £20 worth of petrol was put in my 59 plate gold 1.6tdi. Realised after like 2 min of driving and revs going funny cut the car out, drained the petrol, and refilled with diesel. Took it on a little run and all of a sudden glow plug light started flashing and it lost power.. i cut it out tryed restarting and didnt start. Waited five mins tryed again and it worked power was back. What do i do? Could it cause serious damage??
You hear lots of horror stories about missfuelling, but in my experience, petrol in a diesel just stops it from working till you drain it and refill with diesel. I've dealt with a few and never seen any damage. I'm sure you do get cars with serious damage occasionally, but more often not from what I've seen
When you drained it, did you drain the fuel pipes, the fuel filter, and the injector pies? They can hold a fair bit of fuel and maybe you were running on a mix of fuels briefly. If it's running ok now i wouldn't worry about it.
When you drained it, did you drain the fuel pipes, the fuel filter, and the injector pies? They can hold a fair bit of fuel and maybe you were running on a mix of fuels briefly. If it's running ok now i wouldn't worry about it.
Vanordinaire said:
in my experience, petrol in a diesel just stops it from working till you drain it and refill with diesel
Maybe it depends on the system or the proportion of petrol and diesel left in the system. It's notorious for causing accelerated wear in the pump and then feeding metal debris from the pump through the rest of the fuel system, effective trashing the whole lot. Given the likely cost of that repair and the potential for making it much worse by driving it, I'd play safe if that was me. Of course it's always easy to be brave with somebody else's money.GreenV8S said:
Vanordinaire said:
in my experience, petrol in a diesel just stops it from working till you drain it and refill with diesel
Maybe it depends on the system or the proportion of petrol and diesel left in the system. It's notorious for causing accelerated wear in the pump and then feeding metal debris from the pump through the rest of the fuel system, effective trashing the whole lot. Given the likely cost of that repair and the potential for making it much worse by driving it, I'd play safe if that was me. Of course it's always easy to be brave with somebody else's money.Lauren123 said:
GreenV8S said:
Vanordinaire said:
in my experience, petrol in a diesel just stops it from working till you drain it and refill with diesel
Maybe it depends on the system or the proportion of petrol and diesel left in the system. It's notorious for causing accelerated wear in the pump and then feeding metal debris from the pump through the rest of the fuel system, effective trashing the whole lot. Given the likely cost of that repair and the potential for making it much worse by driving it, I'd play safe if that was me. Of course it's always easy to be brave with somebody else's money.If you were to ask a main dealer, I'm sure they'd take the cautious approach and do the full works at enormous cost. That's why some insurers are now including missfuelling in their policies. Maybe worth while checking your insurance policy if you're worried.
oakdale said:
If was me and it's now running o/k with the engine light not on, I'd just forget about it and carry on using it.
Yes but yday when drove the glow plug light started flashing and lost power so cut it out tryed again it didnt start left it 5 and then ran ok with power back and no light
You may well also have stored fault codes too now even if the MIL as gone out 
this particlaur engine has an 02 sensor and 3 EGT sensors IIRC and if any of them are reading anything abnormal it will throw DTC's (fault codes) try not do it (petrol fill) again otherwise you may damage the DPF permanently 
this particlaur engine has an 02 sensor and 3 EGT sensors IIRC and if any of them are reading anything abnormal it will throw DTC's (fault codes) try not do it (petrol fill) again otherwise you may damage the DPF permanently Sardonicus said:
You may well also have stored fault codes too now even if the MIL as gone out this particlaur engine has an 02 sensor and 3 EGT sensors IIRC and if any of them are reading anything abnormal it will throw DTC's (fault codes) try not do it (petrol fill) again otherwise you may damage the DPF permanently
Please help changed fuel filter and now wont start gna go to garage this particlaur engine has an 02 sensor and 3 EGT sensors IIRC and if any of them are reading anything abnormal it will throw DTC's (fault codes) try not do it (petrol fill) again otherwise you may damage the DPF permanently Gassing Station | Engines & Drivetrain | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff