The missus has rang me to say she accidentily started putting petrol in her 05 plate 206 hdi. She put £4 petrol in, realised and then put £25 diesel in!

Is this a problem....will diluting help or does it need draining! Would the AA cover this?

Thanks in advance. Sorry if inappropriate forum! Didnt know where to post!

£4 petrol would be ok in derv tank but fill derv tank to the top
AA would only take you home or to a garage

Thanks. Does diesel and petrol mix or does one float on top of the other? The common sense theory is dilute it and hope all is well...or would it be better to pay up now and get it drained at the risk of doing other harm long term!


Rich

petrol in a derv engine should be ok
but derv in perol engine not so good
derv engine will burn off petrol ok

Any issues with fuel pump, injectors, lubrication etc?

The cars under warranty as is brand new....perhaps dilute as much as possible and play it dumb if there were any issues down the line.

Rich

should have no probs if you diluted well keep it toped up for a few weeks
if you are worried talk to you garage they will advise you

Thanks for the advice.

A peugeot garage advised to get the tank drained off at an hours labour. They said it may be ok, it may not! they were just covering themselves really!



Cheers
Rich

[quote name='RichardMD' date='Nov 5 2005, 11:57 AM']Thanks for the advice.

A peugeot garage advised to get the tank drained off at an hours labour.  They said it may be ok, it may not! they were just covering themselves really!



Cheers
Rich
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I thought it all depends on if you have alot of petrol in the tank compared to diesel cos if it gets through to the engine and stopped the entire system has to be purged and pressured etc I remember the MT boys saying its a nightmare when one of the guys put petrol into a jcb

I think you'll be fine
when you get down to half a tank fill it up again
I had a friend who used to put some petrol in his 306 each time he filled up with diesel to give it some extra kick

Cheers....the missus is going for the top it up / dilute it approach....i gave her the disclaimer incase it goes wrong!

Id imagine it could be easy to do....shes only just bought the hdi 206....ive never put diesel in a petrol car though...which is probably worse!

I wouldn't worry about it - in Africa we filled the diesel HiLux pickup trucks with whatever was available, including Jet-A and kerosene. And they kept on running fine.

You should be ok mate, my sister did the same, just filled it up and it was fine after

it will just clean your engine

no complaints yet!