Help!

Have gone and filled my 130 TDI with Petrol

Towed home

Anyone know the best place to get to on the car to disconnect/drain/pump the fuel out from please?

If you have any warranty left then don't go any where near a dealer!!

If you lift up the rear seat have you got access to the tank level sender?

dont know if you can on a skoda, but in the old days when this happened (which you cant do in the enviromentally friendly days of today) my mate prised the grommit off the bottom of the tank, drop the fuel and once empty just filled it to the brim with diesel, petrol should evaporate with time. dont know if anyone else recommends it but its what was done.

if you can find out the correct relay , you will be able to put a permanent feed to the fuel tank and pump it into a suitable container(s)

if you can find out the correct relay , you will be able to put a permanent feed to the fuel tank and pump it into a suitable container(s)

Agreed, that's probably the best way these days but bear in mind modern fuel pumps work at high enough pressure to, well, "exfoliate".

Have gone and filled my 130 TDI with Petrol

You plonker :eek:

Damm you shouldn't be in control of a vRS if can't put the correct fuel in it

That is the sort of thing a Merc or a snobby driver would do ( cos they can't see in front of their noeses)

If you have any warranty left then don't go any where near a dealer!!

Whys that Stu? Will it void the warranty?

Mark

Whys that Stu? Will it void the warranty?

Mark

It wont void the warranty provided the dealer replaces half the car, get my drift. Most small garages are experienced at sorting this out, you arent the first & you certainly wont be the last. Just try ringing round, you might find your local filling stations can recomend one. Our local Tesco recomends one about 200 yards away, aparently they do 2 or 3 a week. Provided the car wasnt started you will have no problems

There was a thread about this a few weeks ago. Think that the conclusion was 'don't worry' - it won't cause any damage.

Get the tank drained and fill it right up with diesel and off you go. If you're fussy, get the fuel filter changed.

If it were me, I would get someone to do it just to save the hassle of having to dispose of 9 gallons of petrol (match, anyone?). Think that the AA/RAC type people have dedicated units for this. Sure that there would be a mobile specialist if you looked in the yellow pages.

Damm you shouldn't be in control of a vRS if can't put the correct fuel in it

He isn't he has a Mk4 Ibiza

There was a thread about this a few weeks ago. Think that the conclusion was 'don't worry' - it won't cause any damage.

Get the tank drained and fill it right up with diesel and off you go. If you're fussy, get the fuel filter changed.

If it were me, I would get someone to do it just to save the hassle of having to dispose of 9 gallons of petrol (match, anyone?). Think that the AA/RAC type people have dedicated units for this. Sure that there would be a mobile specialist if you looked in the yellow pages.

It cost us

He isn't he has a Mk4 Ibiza

Pillock

Not a current article but still worth a read:

Fleetnews.co.uk :: Fleet News online

Right, for anyone who needs to know.

The fuel lines easily come apart. They are clipped togetherand are designed to be unclipped, with a release button on the female side of the joints. There are joints just infront of the fuel tank that are idealto split with the back of the car lifted up and a container underneath.

I used the lift pump in the tank to pump the fuel out. Access gained under the back seat. Electrical connector has four conections. The two outer are the pump and the terminal fed by the brown wire is earth.

Connected 12V to the outer terminals and pumped all fuel out of the tank via the disconnected black 'feed' fuel line. Then reconnected the feed leaving the return disconneted. Put another gallon of diesel in the tank and again ran the lift pump to try and prime the pipes. Replaced the electrical connector and started the engine up letting it run at idle until the gallon of fuel had worked its way through and been pumped out of the still disconnected return fuel pipe.

Reconnected the return pipe, added a futher gallon of diesel and drove the car back to the filling station.

PD130 running like a dream again!

I first called the AA by the way. They could only offer to take the car to the nearest approved centre (actually the filling station I was at!) who were then going to charge me

I just use a 12v power probe. You only need to supply 12v to the live wire of the lift pump (earth is allready earthed to the body). Disconnect the feed to the fuel filter and pump it though.