Fluffy!

Well, I suppose it was only a matter of time!!!!!!

Decided to try ‘Super’ Diesel in the Yeti this morning. Only a gallon left so stuck £25 in.

And then realised it was Super Unleaded (insert Anglo Saxon of choice).

I thought it was a little difficult getting the nozzle in, unfortunately going to the Gym 3 times a week kind of overcomes obstinate little ‘doesn’t fit’ obstacles like that.

Also being colour blind and not altogether sure what ‘Green’ is doesn’t exactly help.

Fortunately I realised, pushed the car out of the way and waited for the RAC. Didn’t even think about starting it. Forecourt attendant was a star, gave me a coffee and let me use his mobile (mine has just gasped its last). £175 later and all is well – except my financial situation obviously.

30 years of filling up with Petrol gets to be quite a conditioned reflex I suppose. RAC man tried to cheer me up, the Yeti has a ‘Saddle’ shaped tank, had the petrol gone into the left chamber I would have been looking at a dismantling job on the interior to get at an access point for the offside part of the tank, god knows what that would have cost. Not altogether sure whether that's the case but it cheered me up a smidgin anyway.

Don’t think I will be doing it again in a hurry

to hear of your financial loss Fluffy, at least you realised your mistake before any harm was done. A former colleague from the RAF days drove over a hundred miles in a L/R Defender after putting petrol in by mistake; think it cost £2-3000 to fix

TP

Welcome to the Club

Your blonde moment is not as rare as you may think.

I put unleaded in my 500 Diesel, & I have been driving diesels for around 20 years ( I was lucky i only put £1 worth in - so topped up with diesel & was ok).

Maybe there should be a badge of honour with either -

" I put Diesel in my Petrol car "

OR

" I put Petrol in my Diesel car "

Ouch!!!! I always go to the same pump at the same petrol station, so if I am dozy that day I cant make that mistake ,:S

It's just God telling you that you bought the wrong engine!

I used to drive a Nissan Urvan with a 2 litre petrol engine, and people used to look at me like I was mental at filling stations! Nobody ever said anything, so they must have secretly hoped I'd break down! Gits....

I was trying to remember , is it really bad to put petrol in a diesel or diesel in a petrol, I know one of the combinations isn't as catastrophic as the other but couldn't remember which.

Decided to play it safe in the end. I think the dork fairy had been spreading her magic dust over Manchester this morning, I realised after handing over eleventyone quid that I could have walked 500 yds up the road to Halfrauds and got a tank emptying gadget for a reasonable sum. Only occurred to me afterwards. Doh!

In the L/R incident the injector pump was trashed as it's lubricated by the fuel oil; petrol does not have these properties.

TP

Hopefully if you've been pumping enough iron your chest will be big enough to pin the medal on

Well done sir

I take my hat off to you for being big enugh to admit the incident.

Cudo's.

Hopefully if you've been pumping enough iron your chest will be big enough to pin the medal on

Well done sir

Have heared of cases that when cars are recovered to main dealers to rectify mis-fuelling that the cases are logged and the car manufacturers may attempt to wriggle out of any future warranty claim re engine, fuel pump etc. I have no experience of this myself but it may be worth NOT mentioning this episode to your Skoda dealer.

In working in a petrol station for a fair few years prior to this job now - I can say you weren't alone in your error. So many people make this mistake.

I was trying to remember , is it really bad to put petrol in a diesel or diesel in a petrol, I know one of the combinations isn't as catastrophic as the other but couldn't remember which.

I've done this once and it cost me £320 to fix at Mr Audi... Grrr. AND I did not start the car and it was only £20s worth.

As to which is worst: it is by far the worst to put petrol in a diesel. A diesel has a far, far higher compression ratio (hence the thicker engine block and the extra weight) to handle this. Thus if you put the even MORE volitile petrol in there you can just imagine the resultant bang when it gets compressed! But far worse than that is that diesel self lubricates. Petrol does not so if you start the car it messes all the seals up and anything that had had diesel lubrication before you added the petrol.

I was chatting to the friendly RAC man whilst the unleaded was being slurped. I asked him what happened to all the fuel he collected (about 700 gallons a month!) he said it was reclaimed at a depot in Sheffield. The diesel was not used but the petrol was put back into the supply chain. RAC man actually said that the diesel floats quite noticeably on top of the petrol in a see through tank but the thought of storing something so volatile at home waiting for it to settle firmly put him off 'home use'.

As I didn't even attempt to start it the RAC man was 100% confident there would be no ill effects at all, certainly ran like only a Yeti can after filling up with the right motion lotion. RAC man was very impressed with the Yeti, he had already seen today's papers which have reported the What Car report naming Skoda as the best car maker of all. To cap it all a gent in a Merc ML 320 also had a poke round my stricken Yeti and then announced he was off to buy one for his daughter! Considering this is by no means a 'flash' motor it is amazing the comments - all positive I have had in 3 weeks of ownership.

Must also mention I am very satisfied with the Matador Nordica winter tyres fitted last week (on the Annapurnas) expected more road noise and can't tell the difference despite an extra 2psi all round. £115 a corner and they are really Continentals truth be told, hard to tell the difference over the std Dunlops in normal driving.

Welcome to the club Fluffy. I've done it in a focus TDCI. My wife in a Merc E class 320 TDI. Both were fine afterwards.If in any doubt about lack of lubrication give it a dose of 2 stroke oil . There's pages of good Info on the freelander website about it's benefits( freel2.com) :yes:

Welcome to the Club!

Done it twice!! Once when I worked for Vauxhall Fleet and was filling about 7 cars, only one of which was a diesel. Slapped wrist and a Warning for that one, and then did it with the last Freelander, but realised after I had put 5 litres of petrol in, so stopped and filled the other 40 litres with diesel. It didn't seem to mind at all. When I told the my mechanic he said it would have been a good way of cleaning the injectors.

At one time you used to be advised to add a gallon of petrol to every 20 of diesel in the winter, before they used to add the anti-waxing agents. It was supposed to stop it "freezing".

Mark

In my vw t4 manual (diesel) it say's you can add petrol to the diesel on cold days,-----think it means really cold though . :S