Firstly, DON'T PANIC! More accurately, petrol (gasoline fuel) has been mixed with diesel fuel.
If you realise your mistake before you leave the petrol pump (bowser at gas station) then stay put, BUT DO NOT START THE ENGINE!
If only a few dollars of petrol has gone in you can fill the tank with the proper fuel and it may be O.K.
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Get help to push the vehicle to a place out of the way. Then locate the fuel line and detach it so that ALL the fuel from the tank can drain into suitable containers.
If you cannot do it yourself, then you must call a motor motor mechanic to do it for you.
Do not start the engine as this makes it a whole lot more expensive to fix.
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Stop the engine to prevent damage to the cat (catalytic convertor) if one is fitted to the exhaust system.
To do th job properly a garage would:
Another opinion
A TV motoring show recently exploded the myth by both running a petrol engine on diesel and a diesel engine on petrol. They ran badly, but they ran. When revertng to proper fuel both engines returned to normal.
Comment on that opinion
Any qualified motor engineer would say it was probably just a lucky co-incidence for the particular engines tested on that TV show and that there may well have been significant damage done that would show up within a few hours of running on the correct fuel.
In general, you should never ever assume that any engine and its subsystems (fuel pump, fuel injectors, etc.) would be as tolerant of being fed with the wrong type of fuel.
Nothing - unless you start you engine - So DO NOT START ENGINE! PUSH YOUR VEHICLE AWAY FRON THE PUMPS. If you start the engine then diesel sill get into the fuel system and be quite a job to empty it. Get someone to empty the tank completely. Then fill with petrol and drive as normal. If you drive the vehicle away it will very soon come to a sudden stall, probably no damage is likely to occur, (unlike if you had put petrol into a deisel vehicle!!), but it will cost a lot more to clear the system from diesel.
Serious damage. Any diesel mechanic, would recommend draining the entire fuel system and re-filling it with pure diesel. I do know some guys that add a gallon or two of gasoline to their diesel trucks, meaning big rig semi's, in the winter for easier starting, however their truck's fuel tanks have a 50 gallon capacity. Diesel is a lubricant as well as a fuel. Running gasoline, or a high mixture of gasoline WILL cause SERIOUS damage to a diesel engine, so remove all the gas immediately.
gasoline in diesel will not cause a problem, the gas will actually clean the injectors and and will just burn off in normal running of the engine
Petrol in a Diesel will cause serious engine damage if you run the engine.
Diesel in a petrol engine and the engine will simply not run. No damage will be done.
No!
Because diesel is ignited of heat and high high compresion not a spark on lower compresion petrol engine. If you use diesel in a petrol you will end up with your engine knocking and pre-detonation followed by your engine blowing up pretty bad.
big boom, that what happen
The diesel engine is designed to use diesel, which reaches combustion at high (relatively to petrol) pressure and temperature. If petrol is injected into a diesel engine, then combustion will take place in a, very different than it was designed, way, which will eventually destroy the engine. But there are engines that have been designed to burn diesel or petrol. They call them bifuel engines. Old farmer tractors used to have this kind of engines.
No pressure requirements for diesel much greater.There were some farm tractors built in the 1940's that started on gasoline (petrol), and switched to diesel when the engine was warmed up. So it is possible.
Petrol in a diesel engine will destroy the engine.
If you use Petrol or Gasoline in a Diesel engine you will destroy that engine. That is why you do not use it.
No. A petrol or gasoline engine will not run on diesel fuel.
NO! It will not run on diesel.
NO! It will not run on diesel.
the engine will not run because of three reasons. 1. Diesel uses more compression than the petrol engine does 2. the diesel engines fuel to air mixture is 1:1 and petrol isn't 3. diesel engines use straight compression or glow plugs instead of spark plugs
A gasoline engine will not run on diesel and a diesel engine will be destroyed if you run it on gasoline. Click the link.
Your car breaks down and you cant move at all until you find a garage then it costs a fortune! Running petrol in a diesel engine will destroy that diesel engine.
I don't know what a 'petrol electric fuel' might be. You certainly can't use petrol in a diesel engine.
No pressure requirements for diesel much greater.There were some farm tractors built in the 1940's that started on gasoline (petrol), and switched to diesel when the engine was warmed up. So it is possible.
A Petrol engine use petrol that it ignites to cause an explosion in the cylinders, where the diesel engine works by compressing the mix of diesel and air, expose this to heat to make it explode but over a longer time. So a diesel engine has no spark plugs. The diesel needs pressure and heat, while petrol is explosive, will explode. So the two cannot be used together.
No.