Wrong fuel question

[pcn1]

After 6 years of driving my diesel Grand Cherokee, I finally did the wrong thing and stuck petrol in it the other day !
Realised straight away, drove it 30 metre's out of everyones way and just parked it up at the station. Had a company pump it out and filled it with fresh diesel and ran fine, and still is 25 miles later.

They kind of read you the riot act about what might or might not happen after doing this. One thing he mentioned was to replace the fuel filter (about £30 for this Jeep). Im happy to do that if required, but just thought the fresh diesel would wash through any slight petrol contamination and is it really necessary or just a hypothetical box ticking exercise.

Thoughts ?

[pcn1]

GreenV8S said:

Did that company flush through the fuel system, or just drain and refill the tank?

Just pumped it out, then we put in fresh fuel.
It started striaght away, we had a very small amount of white smoke for say 5 seconds then all clear after that.

Edited by pcn1 on Thursday 21st September 11:33

[pcn1]

Ive read about the state of the fuel in the forcourt tanks not allways being pure.
Cross fuel contamination, water and debris in the tanks etc. Can you ever be sure the fuel you put in is 100% correct ?

[pcn1]

paintman said:

Just carry on driving & deal with any issues if/when they arise.
I might know someone who filled a Mercedes Sprinter with petrol & only realised when it started to cough & splutter. Drained, fuel filter changed & started. IIRC that was probably 50k miles ago & so far the sun still comes up & the sky hasn't fallen down.

This is my take on the situation now. Ive had my moneys worth out of this jeep over the years of trouble free motoring (with me doing most of the maintenance).
Its not worth much now so even if it went bang tommorow I cant complain !

Cheers