Following the thread hijack ...

The Mad Wife put £30 of super unleaded in her Fabia SE yesteray, when it was showing 5 miles left to go on the computer...

Needless to say, it stopped shortly after :(

She only tried to start it once, thinking it had stalled, but then after a quick look, she realised what she had done.

fearing the worst, she called Skoda assist, who turned up within the hour, and towed her ( a more traumatic experience than childbirth apparently:eek: ) to our local ex Skoda dealer ( Lightcliffe Nissan Halifax. )

She was met with ums and ahs and ifs, but left them to it.

She was called today, to say it was ready

A flush out, new filter and some DIESEL, with a large drop of millers and plenty of right foot, all is well:D

It had a few lumpy moments, lots of petrol smells, and a large amount of smoke, but now all is well.

All in all it proved a quite expensive fill up, but at a 'mere' £120 plus £60 in petrol and diesel, it could have been a lot worse.

Oh, and the petrol nozzle was black, so be careful peeps.

*phew... close shave......

and PMSL at the start words.... "the mad wife...."

Very lucky,

My boss did the same to his 3.0l diesel jag, needless to say he was not so lucky and the repair bill came to £3,000, engine rebuild i think..

Glad to hear all has turned out ok, and not as costly as you might have feared.

So are you actually saying that it wasn’t really Shelaghs fault after all? You must be going soft in your old age.

Still it is probably less traumatic than accidentally putting Woodpeckers cider in your personal tank rather than Magners.

Sounds like these vRS engines stop quite quick when filled with the wrong stuff, which is a good engine safety thing.

Very lucky,

My boss did the same to his 3.0l diesel jag, needless to say he was not so lucky and the repair bill came to £3,000, engine rebuild i think..

Worst case scenario was a new fuel pump, new injectors, new cat..........

The 'man' reckoned about £2.5k in total if it all went t!ts up.

fortunately she didn't churn it over and over trying to start it, that is what fecks them apparantly, all the petrol lying everywhere doing nowt, starts to rot seals and invisible doodahs:confused:

The insurance said 'everyone' is allowed one diesel/petrol interface. Just one mind you.

Yikes, sounds like you were lucky, my boss fubard everything, dont know the ins and outs but came to 3k

Glad it's all sorted Mr G

Sounds like these vRS engines stop quite quick when filled with the wrong stuff, which is a good engine safety thing.

She did have only 5 miles left on the trip computer, and was going up a steep cobbled hill when it stopped ( cobbles are small hard bumpy brick, set to make you teeth fall out when traversing them, for all you southerners )

She has decided the car is bad luck, and is now looking for a new one..................:(

Oh, and She says thank you Amanda :confused:

Bad luck... lol

It's not a new car she needs its specsavers

I think It its actually illlegal for a garage to supply petrol through a black nozzle!

Diesel can only be supplied through a black or yellow nozzle and petrol through a red or green nozzle.

We used to own a UK petrollium filling station many moons ago.

Following the thread hijack ...

The Mad Wife put £30 of super unleaded in her Fabia SE yesteray, when it was showing 5 miles left to go on the computer...

Needless to say, it stopped shortly after :(

She only tried to start it once, thinking it had stalled, but then after a quick look, she realised what she had done.

fearing the worst, she called Skoda assist, who turned up within the hour, and towed her ( a more traumatic experience than childbirth apparently:eek: ) to our local ex Skoda dealer ( Lightcliffe Nissan Halifax. )

She was met with ums and ahs and ifs, but left them to it.

She was called today, to say it was ready

A flush out, new filter and some DIESEL, with a large drop of millers and plenty of right foot, all is well:D

It had a few lumpy moments, lots of petrol smells, and a large amount of smoke, but now all is well.

All in all it proved a quite expensive fill up, but at a 'mere' £120 plus £60 in petrol and diesel, it could have been a lot worse.

Oh, and the petrol nozzle was black, so be careful peeps.

Black petrol nozzle means you might have a case to get the garage to pay some of that. There are pre defined colours and BP got into trouble for breaking the rules a while back

Oh, and She says thank you Amanda :confused:

She is welcome:)

See this quite alot in the garage.

The PD engies seem to take petrol quite well actually, a flush out and a fuel filter always fixes the problem.

The petrol FSI engines dont like deisel though.

Had one recently thats repair bill as £1000 only had 1,000miles on the clock.

Cat and inlet manifolds!

Ha! Made me laugh anyway.

Black petrol nozzle means you might have a case to get the garage to pay some of that. There are pre defined colours and BP got into trouble for breaking the rules a while back

i agree take them to the cleaners

get photograhic evidence of them supplying the fuel through the wrong coloured nozzle first.

i agree take them to the cleaners

get photograhic evidence of them supplying the fuel through the wrong coloured nozzle first.

That is correct. I work at a Petrol Station. The Law states that the fuel should be stated and easy to read.

There were a few issues with shell and the Vpower not standing out - Hence the new RED tops.

My local shell,

I went to the available pump and topped it up with diesel, and thought it a little expensive, it was Vpower and the label had blown off :-)

I had started using V Power a couple of months ago, but I did not gain any more mileage as advertised, the only thing noticeable was the engine was much quieter, so I went back to standard diesel

National

Just a footnote, I see missfueling quite a bit in my line of work and I have heard of a few cases now where people have successfully claimed for expensive repair bills on their comprehensive insurance.

Only done this once, thankfully it was a company vehicle a Scania, £150 pounds worth of petrol in a diesel engined class 1 vehicle.

OOOps

Just a footnote, I see missfueling quite a bit in my line of work and I have heard of a few cases now where people have successfully claimed for expensive repair bills on their comprehensive insurance.

There is no reason why it wouldn't be covered by your insurance.

Oh man! Thank goodness it is all sorted - good news!

I heard an idea a while back to introduce 'shaped' nozzles and fuel fillers - for example, diesel would be triangular. That way, you couldn't stick the wrong one in... I guess the downside is the cost etc of changing EVERY car and pump! :eek:

The AA now offer a service to come out and flush you out - providing you realise your mistake before starting the car.

My Dad had a hire car once (VW Passat circa 1985). We were on the way to see friends and stopped for fuel. Shortly after leaving the petrol station, the engine juddered and cut out. He called the hire company, and they got another car ready for us, so we got a lift down and picked up the replacement. Two weeks later, at the end of the hire, we dropped the car back and my Dad casually asked, "did you find out what was wrong with the car?"

"Yes sir, it is a petrol car, but the tank was full of diesel."

Oops

I heard an idea a while back to introduce 'shaped' nozzles and fuel fillers - for example, diesel would be triangular. That way, you couldn't stick the wrong one in... I guess the downside is the cost etc of changing EVERY car and pump! :eek:

A diesel nozzles actually too big to fit down a petrol car's filler of course, but sadly it doesn't work the other way...

I think It its actually illlegal for a garage to supply petrol through a black nozzle!

Diesel can only be supplied through a black or yellow nozzle and petrol through a red or green nozzle.

We used to own a UK petrollium filling station many moons ago.

The BP garage at the top of my road sells 99 ron petrol out of a black nozzle, nearly caught me out once, had the nozzle in the tank and noticed in time. went to pay and told the bloke what I'd done and was greeted with " Yer.... Lot's of people do that............"....To$$er..