Q: I moved my diesel car for 2 miles on petrol after I filled it up, then it just died on me. Will it require to be fixed?
Answer; you didn’t move it for 2 miles on petrol what’s better likely is you moved it for 2 miles with petrol in the tank. Once the petrol pushed its path through the low-pressure sender pump, thru all the fuel pipes, up to and via the filter (which has about a pint of fuel), through the stockings to the high-pressure pump, thru the pump, into the standard rail reservoir, and eventually into the high-pressure pipes into the combustion room, that’s usually the same point that the motor controls turning, and in fact, you will see you maybe got back 20 yards on petrol, which is the time it brought for the motor to stall. This is what occurs if you put petrol in a diesel car. The good information is, that this isn’t as catastrophic as you might feel and there is a straightforward, practical solution in a portable fuel drain – a benefit we deliver all over the nation and we hear most call-outs with 50 minutes, 24 hours a daylight. many other things can occur with misfuelling, I have covered most of them down.
Q: What does petrol accomplish to a diesel car’s fuel strategy?
Answer:: This image (below) is the suction line I exploit to remove the wrong fuel. this was taken when accomplishing a job that had 50 litres of petrol in a diesel mini, this was being carried from the fuel tank as the car had not been created. this stocking is full of energy, about 70% petrol, 30% diesel.
a view of the same hose, the car was a Diesel VW Polo, it has been plug’d with 90% petrol, and 10% diesel, the car had been left overnight after releasing power and being pulled back to the clients house, the suction line was connected to the high pressure pump channel, as you can visit the fuel has gone black, this is becuase the petrol has desolved rubber in the fuel pipes, this car sat for a daylight with a very healthy mix of petrol, it had also been moved until failure, the dark paint is a mix of rubber and plastic that has disbanded in petrol (fuel hoses are created class clear to reduce costs for car manufacturers,i,e diesel for diesel stockings only and petrol in petrol stockings only), I would not wish this to have accomplished the car any actual harm over an 18 hour time, just a microscopic layer of power line has been robbed off from the inside, these lines are relatively thick so a short bit of contamination once is fine, if you do like to make a habit of misfuelling regularly and exiting the car sitting for days with the incorrect fuel in it you will ultimately require new fuel lines. and plastic fuel elements.
Q: What occurs to the fuel once we bring it out?
Answer: at the end of the day (or during a very active day), I unload all of my various fuel into 220 litres drums, at our garage, (a licence is needed to store mixed fuel from the background agency), and the mix is organised every 7 to 10 days by a garage benefits business, these are the same men who take out utilised engine oil, brake fluid etc.. from garages everywhere. the hybrid fuel is batched each and in-between me and all the other businesses that offer this service, I would think that there are between 50 to 200 thousand litres a week of combined fuel “created” in the UK per week. – once it is batched up into possible quantities usually 28.000 litres (tanker load) it is distilled in one of the main refineries using a distillation process – similar to the one employed for making crude oil, the petrol diesel mix splits at 60 – celsius, i,e the petrol burns off, it is then packed and split, from what I have attended this is accomplished twice to get a good result, I would think that the mix would then go back into the supply chain and be utilised as it was originally planned!
Q: What’s more alarming, diesel in petrol, or petrol in a diesel?
Answer: the wrong fuel in varying amounts does extra things, petrol in diesel will stall it, or relying on the mixture it energy just still run, albeit sounding like a bag of spanners, – with less power Diesel in a petrol car will cause it to lose power, and run flat. The worst-case systems (and these are the WORST) are;1) petrol in a diesel pump will ultimately hurt the pump (If you are unfortunate enough to bring a mix that just runs), if you have not seen it, and are ignorant to the car’s conduct, you would also have to do a fair share of going with a heavy foot, this would need a new common rail pump, piezo injectors and fuel pipes, the high-pressure fuel pump which runs at 28 odd thousand PSI of pressure and is a positively engineered unit depends on diesel going thru it to supply lubrication, petrol does not oil it has “anti lubricating” effects, thus why petrol is good for washing out oil stains. what occurs is the inner working of the high-pressure pump starts chaffing metal grinds on metal, this eliminates the pump, then the metal chafe contracts pulled thru to the piezo injectors and ruin them as nicely, now before you go and sell a kidney to settle for a new diesel pump and injectors, please read the remainder of these FAQ’s because full-scale injury like this is very very rare.2) diesel in petrol most alarming case scenario, the diesel will join the cylinder and not burn, it will slide above the piston rings, into the oil sump and thus the cars oil system, this will improve the oil level, to a point that could push total engine loss.
