What you can do when a petrol station fills your car with the wrong fuel

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What you can do when a petrol station fills your car with the wrong fuel

Filling a vehicle with the wrong fuel can have catastrophic results.

 

[SHL]

What can you do if you realize the wrong type of fuel was filled before starting your car?

 

[zoozi]

All the more reason I wish we GET RID OF PETROL ATTENDANTS!!!! WHYYYYYYYYYYY????????????
Slow farker trundling along at a snails pace once he wakes up from his pie coma and notices there's a car in the bay, fumbles then automatically washes your windows without consent also at a snails pace. Or he's too busy filling 3 other cars to do yours. Don't blame him for the salary he gets.
Then you're not expected to, but feel guilty - tip for this kak I could do have done myself in 2 minutes.

 

[pinball wizard]

What you can do, is get off your fat lazy arse and check that the minimum wage earner is putting the correct thing in the thing you spent hundreds of thousands of Rand on.

FFS! Grow the **** up nimrods.

 

[TheChamp]

What can you do if you realize the wrong type of fuel was filled before starting your car?

Drain it, before starting the car Is a perfect time to realise that the wrong fuel was put in, actually before even putting the key to on and allowing the pump to pull the fuel from the tank.

If you drain it all out nothing much will happen, especially if it's diesel in a petrol car, a colleague of mine had it done before, he actually drove away and the car sputtered to a halt just as he was joining the freeway.

Diesel was drained with the help of some tow guy, petrol put in but the car could not start, the guy towed it in gear with his tow bakkie, after what seemed like the biggest cloud of smoke I have ever seen the car came alive, and he has been driving it since then, a 2.0l Jetta.

 

[Progenix Oj101]

The article says literally nothing about what you should do other than prevent it from happening

 

[pinball wizard]

The article says literally nothing about what you should do other than prevent it from happening

Prevention usually is a lot less expensive than the remedy.

 

[Dimpie (COMPUTEK)]

Drain it, before starting the car Is a perfect time to realise that the wrong fuel was put in, actually before even putting the key to on and allowing the pump to pull the fuel from the tank.

If you drain it all out nothing much will happen, especially if it's diesel in a petrol car, a colleague of mine had it done before, he actually drove away and the car sputtered to a halt just as he was joining the freeway.

Diesel was drained with the help of some tow guy, petrol put in but the car could not start, the guy towed it in gear with his tow bakkie, after what seemed like the biggest cloud of smoke I have ever seen the car came alive, and he has been driving it since then, a 2.0l Jetta.

....and the whole fuel system including valves and piston tops got a good clean ... as good as new

 

[TheChamp]

....and the whole fuel system including valves and piston tops got a good clean ... as good as new

I've heard the diesel thing, how does it work?

 

[TheChamp]

And how does it still happen, I though nozzles were made not to fit and all that?

 

[Dimpie (COMPUTEK)]

I've heard the diesel thing, how does it work?

I have no idea ... Just something I heard from my dad that mechies used to flush engines like that

 

[The_MAC]

My wife still calls me to this day to confirm what type of fuel our cars take..

We used to only have petrol, and recently moved to diesel. What would she do without me I ask her

 

[TheChamp]

I have no idea ... Just something I heard from my dad that mechies used to flush engines like that

One thing I have seen is that the engine flush thing looks a lot like diesel.

 

[Dimpie (COMPUTEK)]

One thing I have seen is that the engine flush thing looks a lot like diesel.

Even my dad flushed with 50/50 dieselower paraffin

 

[RonSwanson]

....and the whole fuel system including valves and piston tops got a good clean ... as good as new

Yep. Should not be too much damage, as long as it is not driven too long. The other way around (petrol in a diesel motor) will be very, very costly.

 

[RonSwanson]

I have no idea ... Just something I heard from my dad that mechies used to flush engines like that

Upper cylinder lubricant. Similar to Wynns.

 

[Kosmik]

And how does it still happen, I though nozzles were made not to fit and all that?

Exactly. Unless the chap intentionally holds it at the top.

 

[The_MAC]

 

[Tacet]

Yep. Should not be too much damage, as long as it is not driven too long. The other way around (petrol in a diesel motor) will be very, very costly.

Happened to me once - petrol in a diesel engine. The car simply died about two blocks from the filling station. We towed it back to them, they arranged for a flatbed to take it to a Bosch repair shop. The filling station accepted full responsibility for all costs. Bosch flushed the engine and change the diesel filter. Luckily there was no damage - I had the car for a few years after that without any issues.

 

[TheChamp]

I wonder if there is new car's sensors and ECU can detect that something is not right and just shut down the car proactively which prevents further damage? especially on petrol in a diesel car situation.