Petrol in Diesel

[Steve Parry]

For the 1st time ever today I made the mistake of putting unleaded into
my diesel Frontera (1992 2.3TD LWB).... .oops .... my defence I'd just
spent a week touring on my motorbike so had got used to reaching for the
green nozzle.

It was almost empty at the time, I only put in 10 quids worth of
unleaded before noticing my cock up, I then filled to the brim with
diesel (about 40 quids worth of diesel).

As I understand it its more of a problem the putting diesel into a
petrol engined car? Any problems I should keep an eye out for? I suppose
its just a question of topping up to "water" the petrol down with diesel
in the fuel tank?

--
Steve Parry
K100RS SE
F650
(not forgetting the SK90PY)

http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk

[QrizB]

On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 16:49:04 +0100, "Steve Parry"
<k100rs_1990removethis@hotmail.com> wrote:

>As I understand it its more of a problem the putting diesel into a
>petrol engined car? Any problems I should keep an eye out for? I suppose
>its just a question of topping up to "water" the petrol down with diesel
>in the fuel tank?

Keep topping it up and you'll be OK. I expect.

--
QrizB

"On second thought, let's not go to Z'Ha'Dum. It is a silly place."

[Tim \(Remove NOSPAM.]

"Steve Parry" <k100rs_1990removethis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:2nn0bgF2f466U1@uni-berlin.de...
> For the 1st time ever today I made the mistake of putting unleaded into
> my diesel Frontera (1992 2.3TD LWB).... .oops .... my defence I'd just
> spent a week touring on my motorbike so had got used to reaching for the
> green nozzle.
>
> It was almost empty at the time, I only put in 10 quids worth of
> unleaded before noticing my cock up, I then filled to the brim with
> diesel (about 40 quids worth of diesel).
>
> As I understand it its more of a problem the putting diesel into a
> petrol engined car? Any problems I should keep an eye out for? I suppose
> its just a question of topping up to "water" the petrol down with diesel
> in the fuel tank?
>
Don;t worry, it will be fine. You may use upto 15% petrol in the diesel in
the winter months to prevent waxing (of summer grade diesel) and improve the
cold start performance anyhow.

Tim..

[Matt Horn]

"Steve Parry" <k100rs_1990removethis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:2nn0bgF2f466U1@uni-berlin.de...

> As I understand it its more of a problem the putting diesel into a
> petrol engined car? Any problems I should keep an eye out for? I suppose
> its just a question of topping up to "water" the petrol down with diesel
> in the fuel tank?


keep toppoping it up as often as possible, you may find that it gets
sluggish for a bit but it will clear and wont do any serious damage.

--
Matthew