patently Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 Ah, cunning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazza_g Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 It's all sorted now, £205 later.She insists the diesel and petrol nossles had been switched over I guess we will never know Glad you got it sorted, the mother in law filled up her 120d with petrol and drove it until it packed up - bill was around £5k mark.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian_C Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 I remember you posting that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_Bangle Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 I assumed most modern diesels had this misfuelling feature My Range Rover has something like this, they've fitted them since 2006, should it trip then there's a reset tool in the trunk. See here at 20 seconds: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hashluck Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 I managed to do this a few years ago in Mrs Diesels company Passat (ironically on the way home from a TSN meet). Put 5 litres of petrol in before I realised. Filled the remaining 65 litres with diesel. Stopped off at halfords on the way home and bought some diesel additive and added this mainly for its lubricating properties. For the next week I kept adding diesel after every journey. And the car ran superbly for the next 50000 miles. Obviously this was a much lower ratio than you are talking about Chris, and it was a PD rather than a common rail engine. Did pretty much exactly the same with an Audi A4 PD - did 100K+ miles no problems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizze Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 The important thing to remember is not to take it to a main dealer. They will change everything, just in case. However the likely hood is you can top up with diesel and never know any difference, why pay for a new tank, fuel lines, pump, injectors etc. etc. in case it knackers them, wait and see. If it does then replace, but don't do it 'just in case'. I filled up our ML with 10 litres, added another 40 litres of diesel and some aviation oil (to help lubricate things) and it was fine, never even a splutter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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