what would you do if some one you know and is fully comp on your car" vrs " fabia put petrol in it and drive to car for 500 yards till it stop what would happen an what would it have done to the engine

Don't drive it!!! Call the Skoda breakdown (AA) you have as part of your warranty and get the car recovered to a dealer. Get your "full comp on the car" friend to pick up the bill for getting it fixed

Chris

Beat them to a pulp! Then get your car picked up and taken to a non Skoda garage to get the nasty stuff out! Let your bloody nosed friend pick up the tab!

Depends if you're talking about your Mum, girlfirend or merely a "mate".

Either way, severe *******ing to start with!

Shame they drove it until it conked out.

I'd have a chat with either Lummox or VRStsu(Sp) about the possible longer term issues and to ensure you know whether the garage is talking b*l*x or not when they smile and give you the bill.

J.

Are you sure the other person is insured fully comp on your car. Most fully comp insurance policies only cover you third party on other cars. It's a common misconception that you are covered fully comp on other cars.

a word of warning, i've mentioned before. Again a couple of weeks ago I watched a guy with a diesel astra arguing with the forecourt staff at a Total station. He was filling up with diesel and thought it smelled like petrol. Three of us confirmed he was pumping petrol from a diesel nozzle, marked diesel at diesel price but definately petrol. He phoned the AA and we left. I have seen this before. So.. don't believe it's diesel because it says so, smell it before you put it in the tank

a word of warning, i've mentioned before. Again a couple of weeks ago I watched a guy with a diesel astra arguing with the forecourt staff at a Total station. He was filling up with diesel and thought it smelled like petrol. Three of us confirmed he was pumping petrol from a diesel nozzle, marked diesel at diesel price but definately petrol. He phoned the AA and we left. I have seen this before. So.. don't believe it's diesel because it says so, smell it before you put it in the tank

That is very scary! I'd never think to check, but I will from now on!

what would you do if some one you know and is fully comp on your car" vrs " fabia put petrol in it and drive to car for 500 yards till it stop what would happen an what would it have done to the engine

First I'd kick them hard in the nuts, then I'd get the car picked up by the AA and taken to a dealer. The problem you have is that the car has been driven, and therefore petrol has passed through the injection system and into the engine. If you're unlucky this could well have caused very expensive damage (well over

Allthough the vans at work are not PD they are still modern turbo deisals and this is not a rare occurance, one LDV was run for about 100 miles on petrol, conked out, roadside fixed by LDV assist ( system bled ) but they didn't realise it was due to petrol in it :eek: so conked 20 miles later, tank then drained and system bled van fine. May be different for PD but think its deisal in a petrol that is catastrophic.

May be different for PD but think its deisal in a petrol that is catastrophic.

Nope, diesel in a petrol engine won't cause any real damage. Just need to flush the system out, re-fill with petrol, and you're off.

However, petrol in a diesel engine can (and usually does) cause all sorts of problems. It's the wrong viscosity, so causes problems with the pumps in PD engines, and it rots seals.

I'd be interested to see if you could claim from your insurance for this... or anyones for that matter.

I saw a fifth gear style program a while back in which they put derv in a petrol car and vies versa and ragged them both round a track until they popped and farted and eventually stalled, they then drained both the tanks and re-fillied with the correct stuff, both cars seemed fine after but the diesel car was a 10 year old Vauxhall, one thing is for sure if you take it to a dealer he will charge a fortune no matter damage or not.

Main problem is that newer cars are more sensitive to a lot of things than old ones, due to having to meet ever more stringent emissions rules.

I bet if they repeated that test with two brand new cars, say take two 3 series beemers with similar engine sizes, you'd have a different (more expensive) result.

The one that worries me in this thread is not the 'user error' but the pump having the wrong fuel in it. If that had happened to me I'd want a full independant inspection of the vehicle + anything going wrong fixed/replaced, paid for by the company involved. I wouldn't like to imagine this ever happening to me, I must admit :eek:

Sorry, but your wrong anout the diesel in a petrol car and vice versa.

My mechanic runs his (diesel) recovery truck on a mixture of diesel/petrol that he drains from the tanks of cars that have been incorrectly filled. It's quite smokey but runs perfectly well, also if you've only put a bit of petrol into a diesel tank then you just need to brim the tank with diesel and just keep it full to dilute the mixture for a while, I know this as it happens regularly on the taxis!

If you put diesel in a petrol engine that is what causes damage due to the fact that diesel doesn't ignite with a spark.

Sorry' date=' but your wrong anout the diesel in a petrol car and vice versa.

My mechanic runs his (diesel) recovery truck on a mixture of diesel/petrol that he drains from the tanks of cars that have been incorrectly filled. It's quite smokey but runs perfectly well, also if you've only put a bit of petrol into a diesel tank then you just need to brim the tank with diesel and just keep it full to dilute the mixture for a while, I know this as it happens regularly on the taxis!

If you put diesel in a petrol engine that is what causes damage due to the fact that diesel doesn't ignite with a spark.[/quote']

I think both situations have the possibility of causing massive problems these days.

Both Petrol and Diesel cars are far more optimised towards their preferred tipple.

Petrol engines will pink, detonate, foul plugs, coat catalytic converters in crap. Diesel engines will tend to break pumps, injectors and rot seals and gaskets not designed for exposure to petrol.

I have in the past run my Mum's car on Diesel A Triumph Dolomite. It smoked and pinked like mad and only accelerated when the choke was out. But it DID run. After burning off most of the diesel it ran quite OK on the next tankful of petrol. I wouldn't like to try this with a modern petrol engine though.

If you notice after having only put a few pounds worth in, then OK, maybe brimming it with the correct fuel will avoid any issues. In my case I only realised when I looked for the pump number to quote to the cashier. D-I-E - oh-5hit! Luckily, I was a student at the time and