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50l 95 unleaded into a diesel last night.
Straight up TWONK
some of you have done it too surely. come on, own up. make me feel better
As an ex petrol station proprietor i can safely say i have never filled up a customers car with the wrong fuel. That wouldv’e been twonkish.
I did fill my own car up with unleaded instead of diesel once though, in a hurry to meet someone for a ride/not my petrol station/no other excuse.
Twonk.
Ive never done it, but my sister put petrol in her diesel 3 times! Cost £70 in petrol and £100 in charges apparently! Each time... slow learner
Yes.
We had a red Yaris. I had a red Fabia at work. I had Touran. I had 5 minibuses. All diesel.
So when a staff member lent me his red Fabia petrol estate....
Yep. I put about half a tank of petrol in my deisel years ago. Realised, then the guy in the station suggested filling the other half with diesel......about €70 later i was driving away fine, thinking hey this worked...nope, once the deisel in the fuel pipes was used the engine cut out 2 miles up the road. Needed a tow, tank draining, filters replaced and €70 fuel wasted. Apparently if you dont start your engine the AA can drain your tank and get you on your way. Expensive lesson for me.
Done it twice -once on my own van once with a hire one. Both times the green pump handle for petrol had a black advert for mars bars on it and the black diesel handle had a green advert for nicorettes.
While both instances were expensive and time consuming I'm now extremely brand loyal in both my chocolate bar and nicotine gum preferences.
Filled up from empty and started driving home, after about a mile bit spluttery and engine light came on, thought what's up now then checked my receipt and sure enough I had put unleaded in, about 40 litres. So rang my brother and said if I'm not home in 20 mins come and tow me home and off I went, 8 miles from home and the last 5 without phone signal, it was a bit of a risk but managed to limp home and when I tried to restart the car after arriving it wouldn't have it. Next morning drained the fuel system and bled it with a bit of fresh diesel and of she went no problem at all. That was an 02 ford focus TDCI common rail.
I put 15litres unleaded in my berlingo last year. Its a HDI
I got halfway out of the garage drove 50 yards- when I realised
The garage had a business card for this-they wanted £200
Got relayed home, and siphoned the tank, new fuel filter , bled the injector pipes/pump etc
and everything was ok
I had a lot of wondering, googling,etc at the garage making my mind up what to do.
It was a major hassle but I did the right thing, I couldnt afford a new engine
I've not done it. Yet. But I've only ever owned petrol-powered vehicles so I never, ever go near diesel.
I'm sure I will at some point though as the years go by...
Yep, non-colour coded handles and in haste I picked up the petrol one instead of the diesel. Realised before I drove off, and the petrol station were good enough to tell me to not start it at all and leave the car blocking the pump until Green Flag arrived.
Surprised Matt OAB managed to get diesel in a petrol, I thought the nozzles were different sizes so they physically won't fit that way round?
I put about 12quid of unleaded into my quite empty diesel nissan and when I realized I then completely filled up with diesel on top of it and it worked no bother; I'm reading this thread and counting my lucky stars. Won't be doing it again especially as it's mrs eds car!
My mates 2.5 Di transit was near empty and he filled it to the brim.with petrol.
Drove home. It got a bit kangarooy and. A bit misfiry.
He assumes air in the lines. It spends 3 weeks on the drive with him trying to bleed it.
He asks for a hand.
I go round and I crank it as he bleeds the injector line into a bottle. He then hands it to me
"Where did you get that from ?"
"Fuel line"
"This is unleaded mate"
He wasn't ammused 🙂 . The old Di made a valiant attempt at running on petrol though.
Mate of mine filled his ducati 748 with diesel, twice. If by any chance you're reading this Pete, you're still a twonk
Yep once.
Nearly empty Passat realised what I'd done just as the pump clicked as the tank was full.
Called out the people recommended by my recovery lot. I was a bit dismayed to see they just dropped a metal braided pipe down the filler then pumped the petrol straight out into a tank in the back of their van. Coulda syphoned it myself!!!
Then filled up with the right fuel this time.
70 quid petrol
120 quid call out
80 quid to fill up with diesel.
Expensive mistake that.
It’s supposed to be hard work to put diesel in a patrol, the nozzle is meant to be to big for the filler neck, seems people still do it though.
It’s supposed to be hard work to put diesel in a patrol, the nozzle is meant to be to big for the filler neck, seems people still do it though.
It’s odd the feature works that way round - petrol cars only run badly / don’t run with the wrong fuel whereas modern diesels could rack up a pretty massive bill from a miss-fuel. Would make more sense for the nozzle sizes to be the other way round
The unleaded nozzle was smaller to stop people putting 4* into an unleaded vehicle.
Modern fords have a neat safety feature on their diesels. There's an expanding ring which releases a flap (fnarr), if you try to put an unleaded nozzle in it it's not wide enough to open the collar so the flap stays locked and you can't get the nozzle in. Clever.
I filled the petrol tank of a husqvarna chainsaw with chain oil. The caps were next to each other so easyish mistake to make. Luckily realised before filling the oil tank with petrol and starting it, could've been briefly interesting. Twas a little smokey for a while though even after flushing out.
Mrs bits did it about a month ago, only £10ish of unleaded in her Touareg. Luckily she noticed at that point before she put £100+ in and didn’t drive away. Company called ‘Fuel Dr’ sorted it on the forecourt. £100 bill.
Adding to the growing list of twonks here, filled my Mondeo from empty to fulfill with unleaded, got about 2miles down the motorway before it started missing and I pulled over & checked the receipt - so I already subconsciously knew I'd done wrong. Did it a second time too just to add to expense 😟
The unleaded nozzle was smaller to stop people putting 4* into an unleaded vehicle.
That doesn’t make sense either. An unleaded engine will run happily on leaded fuel but not the other way round, unless you put a lead replacement additive in, so still the wrong way around.
I put petrol in my diesel SMax the first time I filled it up. It was the first diesel car i’d Owned. Unfortunately I had run the tank right down as I was going to give Shell VPower diesel a go which cost me nearly £90 to brim the tank with VPower petrol!
bigger nozzle for diesel is probably better suited to HGVs as they have much bigger tanks hence the button on some pumps for HGVs. Always fancied trying it when filling the car at Costco to see how quick it will fill!
A triangular nozzle for petrol would work...but a bit late now. At least electric cars wont have this problem.
Northwind’s mate is definitely winning in the twonk stakes here. Filling a motorbike with diesel? Twice? 😳
The good news is, you can get the tank off a 748 really easily.
30 years ago when my mate had just passed his test he was out in mums civic when the oil light came on. He proceeded to top the oil up.....via the petrol flap. Now that did prove costly.
I realised I'd put the wrong fuel in after about £4 worth. Stopped, went in and paid, then brimmed it with the correct fuel, went back in and paid, got given a card for a local garage, and drove off with no problems.
Can't remember which way round I got it wrong, but I got away with it.
A mate's wife is a very high up senior important person with a major multi-national - first class degree, Masters, PhD etc. Puts the wrong fuel in at least once a year.....
Been there, done that.
Petrol in a diesel. I'd put in a few gallons before I realised so topped it all up with diesel again and drove very slowly the 3-4 miles to work, finished my day then called for help. No ill effects other than an extraction/disposal cost.
Bit of a weird contribution. Snow scooter oil instead of paraffin in an old style Primus stove at Geopol Hut in NW Spitsbergen. Cold food that evening.
Not yet, came close a few times in the past.
My dad's mate filled his mini ( real one,not BMW) with diesel. He pushed it onto the verge,got a couple of passing blokes to help & turned it on its side to drain the diesel out. Worked a treat 😁
When we had diesels (and petrols at the same time) I had them all fitted with misfueling devices - they only open for the larger diesel nozzles- always thought of it as money well spent. All petrol now.
I wonder when we will hear of someone trying to put petrol into an EV!
Even my wife hasn't done it and she was stupid enough to marry me!
I wonder when we will hear of someone trying to put petrol into an EV!
Edit: I give up, just Google woman trying to put petrol into an tesla.
Try this!
I usually fill my van up in a morning (6:30), always have to triple check it's the correct fuel.... once brimmed a works van with unleaded, somebody else then took it out.... didn't end well... Oh and the lease ended the following day!
"I wonder when we will hear of someone trying to put petrol into an EV!"
Have to admit, I've only ever had diesel cars so now I live in total fear that I might accidentally fill the LPG tank with diesel or pour petrol into the spare wheel well or something.
It’s supposed to be hard work to put diesel in a patrol, the nozzle is meant to be to big for the filler neck, seems people still do it though.
I managed it, I’d just picked up an Astra GTC, it was a bit low on fuel, I’d checked the tacho redline and the filler cap*, and at the filling station there was only one pump free, which was the far side from the filler, so I had to stretch the hose as far as I could, and the nozzle would only just touch the filler opening, with the handle forced against the side of the car. Put £15-worth in, drove off, very soon the car started misfiring and blowing black smoke, and within a mile or so I had to pull over.
The car was a petrol, I used to check the tacho because most diesel cars redline below 5000, this one was just over, but the thing was, the flap over the filler had a black label stuck on it saying diesel! The breakdown bloke who came out to tow it away couldn’t believe it, he’d been doing that job for years, and had never seen that before.
Thankfully, that absolved me of blame, otherwise I’d be having to stump up £250 for putting the wrong fuel in.
We could only think that the Motability customer I’d picked the car up from had broken the cap off, and had one fitted from a diesel car of the same colour red, because that was all that was available.
I felt guilty as heck, though. I’ve still got a photo of the filler flap which I took, just in case.
Ive just had it suggested I should take a petrol can of lpg incase the tank in the camper runs out at puffer next week ......
I did feel like asking if he could pick me up a can full as I couldn't get near A Garage 🙂
“I wonder when we will hear of someone trying to put petrol into an EV!”
Someone Whatsapp'd me some mobile phone footage of a young lady at a Petrol station by the pumps in a Tesla, walking around the car trying to work out where the filler cap is.
The 2 guys in the car behind watching / recording the action absolutely killing themselves with laughter.
Found it on YouTube.
Hey! I found it earlier! ^^
I'm just too technically inept to post it up properly 😊
well thanks everyone.
i'm not the only twonk.
my defense:
the self-service card pay pumps around here all have this frucking iritating voice giving you instructions way behind the point you're actually at. drives me nuts. "Please enter your pin using the keypad" when you're halfway through doing it (instructions on screen).
I was far too busy raging at this and telling it to shut the front door, to actually think about what the car needed.
worse than that, it asks you to choose which fuel on the screen (when you've already done it, obvs) and when you have, tells you "you have selected unleaded 95 for petrol engines (me; "shut the f up!") i even stopped to think which of the 2 unleadeds was the cheaper.
what can i say? i was determined to put in petrol, and the little voice couldn't stop me..
i guess from now on i'll try to listen to what it's saying rather than concentrating on raging at a machine...
TWONK
anyway stoppe dsoon as realised. got towed home, spent saturday juggling petrol about and crawling around. got it all drained out up to fuel pump, new filter and jobsagoodun. seemed to run actually better after, probably new fuel filter. cost me 80€ diesel, 40 fuel filter and most of a day by the time i'd got it jacked up. i need to get a decent jack!
I misfueled a hire van. Cost £200
In a similar vein to Andy4d’s mate - many years ago oil light came on in my mates Triumph Dolomite (back then they were still, just about, daily drivers), so he opens the bonnet, takes the oil filler off - bear in mind it was on top of the rocker cover, and adds oil. Only problem was he kept buying, and adding oil until it was quite literally full. Sorting that out was very messy!!
^^^ Reminds me of the story of the person who was in a garage forecourt topping up their oil and taking forever to do it. When someone came to help them it turned out they had removed the dipstick and was attempting to pour it in there...
Put £15 worth petrol into a diesel S Max.
Luckily spotted it, and as it was very low anyway, brimmed it with diesel and drove home .. got away with it, think it was like a mega dose of Redex..
50l 95 unleaded into a diesel last night.
Straight up TWONKsome of you have done it too surely. come on, own up. make me feel better
Unless you text in to R1 earlier then at least 1 other person did it this morning.
apparently, according to the guy who towed us back, in winter, they put up to 15% petrol into diesel to help deal with cold, presumably.
so yes, you can get away with it
Mrs TiRed has. Twice; £60 in petrol and £150 for removal and disposal. Then another £70 for diesel. Next car will be petrol/hybrid. Black is diesel in this country. It isn't everywhere - even though the above were in the UK.
I've never done it, but then I don't have a drivers license, much less a car.
This doesn't mean I'm not a twonk
Oh aye, I've also done an oil change and forgotten to replace the sump plug before refilling.
The only saving grace on that one was I'd also left the drain bowl under it, so at least I didn't have to try and mop a few litres of multigrade off a gravel drive.
Twonks of the world unite