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01-06-2008, 04:36 PM
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#16 (permalink)
| | Loyal Member Power tuner Car: Peugeot 306 1.9 DT
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|  Re: What happens if you put petrol in a Diesel engine?
She got about 5 miles before it cut out but we jsut did all that as described before adn it's worked fine (we've got the new discovery 3 now though with the TDV6 hasvn't done it in that one)
and I've just thought then if petrol in a diesel in engine is worse than putting diesel in a petrol engine why is it that a diesel filler pump nozzole won't fit in a petrol car and a petrol one can fit in a diesels? Surely that has something to do it
(this applies to UK petrol stations not sure on the rest of the world) | 
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20-06-2008, 05:52 PM
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#17 (permalink)
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| Re: What happens if you put petrol in a Diesel engine?
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Originally Posted by jarrus464  and I've just thought then if petrol in a diesel in engine is worse than putting diesel in a petrol engine why is it that a diesel filler pump nozzole won't fit in a petrol car and a petrol one can fit in a diesels? Surely that has something to do it
(this applies to UK petrol stations not sure on the rest of the world) | umm.... it does.. someone i know put in 10 litres of diesel into his 106 then to water it down he put another 10 of petrol in it. it ran.. but chucked out LOADS of smoke an had a lot of power down | |
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20-06-2008, 07:02 PM
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| Re: What happens if you put petrol in a Diesel engine?
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Originally Posted by steve09 umm.... it does.. someone i know put in 10 litres of diesel into his 106 then to water it down he put another 10 of petrol in it. it ran.. but chucked out LOADS of smoke an had a lot of power down | don't know which petrol station he went to then....lol | |
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23-06-2008, 06:27 PM
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#19 (permalink)
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| Re: What happens if you put petrol in a Diesel engine?
in kent there all the same... dont really look at diesel pumps much part from to fill up my mates car for him a couple of times but ive never noticed any difference in shape to petrol. | |
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23-06-2008, 07:06 PM
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#20 (permalink)
| | Loyal Member Power tuner Car: twin engined Fiat
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| Re: What happens if you put petrol in a Diesel engine?
put £20 of petrol in my citroen zxtd a couple of weeks ago topped it up with £40 of diesel and apart from being a bit down on power it drove fine, didn't like to start when warm though, since then it's had another £30 worth of diesel and its back to normal, starts first time | 
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26-08-2008, 10:31 PM
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#21 (permalink)
| | Junior Member Wrench Kid Car: 2002 Civic coupe
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| Re: What happens if you put petrol in a Diesel engine?
I put 14 pence of diesel in My mothers passat which is the 2006 tdi 170, realised just as i was putting it in. put about 20 quid of diesel in straight after and it ran fine to this day, although that was only 14 pence lol. | |
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27-08-2008, 08:05 AM
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#22 (permalink)
| | Loyal Member Road burner
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| Re: What happens if you put petrol in a Diesel engine?
14 p (of petrol I presume) would be about a gnats crotchet at todays prices. I bet you were cursing yourself. Did you have to pay in 2 batches 14p and then £638 for the Diesel? | |
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27-08-2008, 02:10 PM
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| Re: What happens if you put petrol in a Diesel engine?
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Originally Posted by billyo 14 p (of petrol I presume) would be about a gnats crotchet at todays prices. I bet you were cursing yourself. Did you have to pay in 2 batches 14p and then £638 for the Diesel? | lol. yeah i did i looked like a complete loser. went in and payed for 14p in exact change then put diesel in.  | |
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27-08-2008, 02:21 PM
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#24 (permalink)
| | Administrator Torque King Car: A3 1.8T Sport
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| Re: What happens if you put petrol in a Diesel engine?
 Thats funny!
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27-08-2008, 05:01 PM
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| | Very Senior Member The Torque Meister Car: prelude 2.2vtec jap
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| Re: What happens if you put petrol in a Diesel engine?
i dont know exactly what happenes,as i never had a diesel motor but i put diesel in my type r civic before,when i realized i had put 15 euros of it in,bollo;s,so i put another 15 petrol in and drove so slow i was almost stopped never did any damage.a fella told me if anything it would clean my engeine,or was i lucky?? | |
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27-08-2008, 08:06 PM
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| Re: What happens if you put petrol in a Diesel engine?
Small dilutions of diesel won't hurt a petrol engine. It certainly won't clean anything though, and might harm the cat and lambda sensor(s) | |
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08-10-2008, 02:56 PM
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| | Junior Member Grease Monkey Car: astra cdti150 sri
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| Re: What happens if you put petrol in a Diesel engine?
i did it last yr. filled to brim with petrol on xmas eve drove home from local petrol station approx 800 metres car started misfiring as i got it on drive when i tried to start it wouldnt start realised wot i had done cost me £80 to have petrol drained and the cost of the petrol did i feel stupid | |
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08-10-2008, 02:57 PM
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#28 (permalink)
| | Junior Member Grease Monkey Car: astra cdti150 sri
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| Re: What happens if you put petrol in a Diesel engine?
i did it last yr. filled to brim with petrol on xmas eve drove home from local petrol station approx 800 metres car started misfiring as i got it on drive when i tried to start it wouldnt start realised wot i had done cost me £80 to have petrol drained and the cost of the petrol did i feel stupid didnt do my engine any harm | |
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08-10-2008, 04:31 PM
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#29 (permalink)
| | Loyal Member Road burner
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| Re: What happens if you put petrol in a Diesel engine?
That cant have helped your MPG at the time it sounds like you were lucky though for it not to do any harm. Was this in the Astra? | |
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08-10-2008, 07:02 PM
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#30 (permalink)
| | Senior member Track Warrior Car: Talon 100R
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| Re: What happens if you put petrol in a Diesel engine?
Am I right in thinking that an old bodge to get your old smokey derv through it's Mot was to mix some petrol in, to reduce the emmisions?
Would't suggest it with modern engines though  | |
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