Petrol into a Diesel

Yes drain tanks, push fuel out of lines with air, bleed system start vehicle then let idle for about 10 mins.

evening Toyocrusa,

sorry to hear about your problems, first check your insurance if with AAMI I think you will find that they will fix it through their people they deal through.
Other than that drain all fuel out, clean all pipes filters etc fill up with clean fuel and all should be ok.

Good luck

Harvey (DBN05)

G'day Bob
I agree, if only 5km and you can now drain and flush and totally clean out the system, all should be OK.

By turning the key on and off a number of times after the filter is bled it will flush all contaminated fuel in the lines through to the tank and that small amount with a fresh fill of diesel will then be ok.

If possible, it would be best for someone to drain the CRD fuel rail if possible and then after the refill and bleed of the supply side, some cranking will be required so the rail fills and pressurizes again with diesel and not the mix.
If you can't do this, the engine has to start and run at idle for a while until all the mix is used out of the high pressure injector pump and through all the injectors. Then it should run properly again.

Even though I fill my diesel I always hold the nozzle just into the filler neck so I can see the OILY liquid and the greenish tinge of colour in the fuel entering the tank, BEFORE I place the nozzle in the neck and fully fill up. Just a precautionary measure in case the delivery man puts petrol in the diesel tank at the servo.

Occasionally I sniff the nozzle to smell the diesel smell too. "AH, the smell of diesel in the morning", or was that Napalm.

Cheers
Ross M

maybe think about getting rid of the wife too, they have no idea about technical car stuff.

Many thanks for all your advise. His wife has been through thick and thin with him as he is a Vietnam Vet and is a bit crook at the moment. She has a petrol VW Tiguan and thought she was doing the right thing. Poor lady has really taken it hard but he sure wont blame her. A friend used to do our local Police vehicle maintenance and it was a regular occurance when they first went to diesel vehicles. Anyway, today we will try draining and flushing the system as far as possible and see if we can get it going properly again. Thanks again to all suggesters. Bob.

Hi there. Last one of these we did, ( granted was driven about 50K's, until it stopped )
$22,000 bill.
All injectors, Pump, Common rails, pipes changed. Plus the usual tank flush, filters etc.
Hopefully not so bad with this one.
Steve

Very sorry to hear about the problem. I have heard of this a few times before, but always a man, not his wife filling his vehicle with petrol. I doubt that my wife will do this because she never fills my car (rarely does her's either). However, we have 2 cars with differing fuel requirements for each one...

It was for this very reason that I painted the inside of the fuel filler area with bright orange paint. With the flap door closed, all is normal - white paint. Open the door and WHAM! - you are hit in the face with a huge splash of orange, with a little patch of white in the middle saying "diesel fuel only". I am not immune to stuffing things up, and I am sure that my wife is not either. Simple precaustion. Hope I never get to that situation...

I have done the same with a 200 Series.Take the delivery hose off the fuel filter.Run a longer delivery hose off into a drum.Then pressurise the fuel tank ie just put an air hose into the fuel tank filler, seal at best you can with rag and the air will pump the petrol out the delivery line to your drum.No problems.

Hi Toyocrusa, I put $20 of unleaded into my diesel 4 yrs ago when Caltex had all their pump handles black. Drove vehicle for about 2Km when it stopped. Lucky for me vehicle was travelling on low fuel light which means 10 ltrs of diesel....I had vehicle towed to next fuel station & filled up with diesel.....60+ litres.....all well until summer time. I activated the a/cond....vehicle idled like a V8 Holden with a full race cam!!! Took vehicle to Mitsubishi Guru who confirmed damaged....injector pump.....price to replace $5,500.00.....decided to trade in vehicle. Good luck

The 200 is now back on the road and running as if nothing happened, with a very happy Wife (and owner) I removed the driver side rear wheel and mudguard inner lining to access. Removed the flexible fuel hose at the filler spout on both tanks. (both were chock full of course) managed to get a syphon hose in and drain both tanks (one at a time) around 140 litres. Put 40 litres of clean diesel in, used the pump on the filter to suck it through and flush the line. Replaced the fuel filter element, sucked diesel through to the pump inlet pipe and refitted the lines. Started it up on idle,ran a bit rough for a minute or so and then smoothed out. Left it idling while I reassembled the inner rear guard and mudflap. Refitted the wheel and went for a run. All good and boy have those things got some grunt. I reckon it would give my V8 VS commodore ute a run and it's no slouch either. Thanks for all your support. Bob.