paceo

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a friend of mine put 1 litre of super unleaded petrol in a diesel tank today, realised this and then filled it up with 69 litres of diesel after, just wondering will this cause a problem as it was such a small amount of petrol?

fuel light had been on empty for ages and he drove it 5 miles up the road and it seemed fine.

Paulo P

Such a small amount won't affect it, they used to add petrol to diesel to stop it freezing in the winter.

Matt Evans

I would imagine it to be very diluted now so shouldnt be a problem...

But then again....

What car was it?

Brian

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My brother in laws dad done this the other day he put £25 of petrol in his diesel car and drove about 10 miles then when he got back he went to go out in the car again and it would start but sound like it was running on 3 cylinders so all we did was fill the tank to the top with more diesel and kept topping it up with diesel and now its fine lucky for him

Brian

paceo

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ford transit tdci T26

56 plate

C4llyT

Is only 1.5% diluted, can't see it making much odds; possibly on some super high tech new diesel with 3 million bar pressure but doubt it.

dangerousbrian

i put 10litres of unleaded in my diesel transit connect work van....filled it to the brim with diesel and nothing broke.....was a bit flat power wise at times compared to normal but other than that it was fine

tabetha

The tranny will be fine, if it was an older model without cat etc, then you could just pour in a litre of hydraulic fluid to help, got told this by a diesel man, worked on my escort d.
tabetha

Graceland

No problem at all with that - the handbook for my 04 reg L200 says I can dilute the diesel by upto 30% petrol