Unleaded petrol mixed with Diesel in a Chrysler 2.5CRD

That was the nice thing about Volvo parts - even a full painted nose cone
from Sweden was only three days.

 

You mean that you agree? This could be the start of some kind of love-in.

Huw

 

NOw I've got beer on the keyboard. How long did it take them to find a
tank lining that was damaged by petrol & not diesel

 

Well that is a bit off. Best avoid BMW then. Oops, I've recently sold a
diesel BMW and now have what is essentially another BMW, a diesel Range
Rover. Oh well, I can only take comfort from the fact that it will probably
never happen to me or my wife. My daughter is another story altogether but
when she gets to drive next year she will probably get a small diesel car,
not for the economy but for the convenience of standardisation with one fuel
filled from my own 7000 litre store for exclusive use of my cars and light
commercials.

Huw

 

Do them stores get checked regularly by HMCR for their veggy oil content

 

Millions of Deutchmark spent in research and development was not wasted.
They even went to the expense of a different material for petrol tanks to
fit in the same space on the car. Wow.

Huw

 

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It still doesn't mean I like them, but it has to be hard to make a worse
car than the last Escorts.

I have to admit that of all the cars we tested on our New Civic day, the
Focus was actually the biggest worry.

 

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I have no idea, although they are both different chemicals anyway,
petrol would dissolve many things where diesel would not.

 

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Jeezus, you have 85% parts stock??? that must be crippling. I would
suspect your statement there is wrong too, nearly all main dealers have
nothing in stock, it would be commercial suicide to do otherwise,
especially now we have such short stock order times.

 

I suspect it's a self-sealing liner. As both fuels have different flow
characteristics surely the liner would need to be designed differently
for optimum performance.

 

Here in the East coast of the USA, back in the 60's, we had a number of 2
cycle Saab's running around. Especially in the State of Conn., where most
seemed to have been sold, gas station attendents would automatically add 2
cycle oil into the tank after filling up the little tike with petroleum.

When Saab switched to 4 stroke motors it was very common for station
attendents to add the 4 stroke oil into the tank.

It seems that whenever people are involved mistakes of this kind will
happen. [At least that mistake would not kill the motor]. A different size
fill port would make a great idea for diesel fueled vehicles, especially if
this catches on in North America.

Richard.

 

We have over £1.75million of parts for many big names in stock including
bearings, engine parts, steering, transmission brake etc etc. chains filters
oils greases and many tools, welders etc which are stocked front of shop,
supermarket style, which I suspect is more stock than some manufacturers
keep and gives you some idea of the scale and scope of operations. We have
just opened a third depot and the second to have a major franchise area and
currently have five fully equipped service vans allocated to workshop staff
who can use these for home service and repairs in and out of normal business
hours. We also have two recovery trucks which double as new and used
delivery trucks to collect and return vehicles if that is more convenient to
the customer and ourselves.
Up until now most common rail repair work [as in reconditioning etc, not
dismantling and reassembling] has been outsourced to a specialist. Our
Mercedes Vito is currently with Shorts, a big mistake because we mistakenly
diagnosed a fuel system problem which turned out to be bent conrods. We
could easily have reconditioned this engine in-house but it is now in bits
many miles away with no-one apparently able to put it back together. It will
probably end up with a new engine partly paid for by insurance. Present
costings indicate that there will be a grand bill plus VAT even insurance
adjustments. We won't be buying another Vito.

Huw

Huw .

 

That is a fundamentally different point from that of a reasonable person
making the mistake of mis-fuelling a car - a mistake that evidently is
easily made, judging by the reports that tens of thousands of people do
it a year.

I think we are both coming at this from our own work backgrounds and we
are unlikely to agree, so I will leave it there. Thank you, sincerely,
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The Focus is an excellent car. I have not seen the new Civic yet but rated
the old one highly apart from general road noise and the diesel engine. The
new on is........well.........different.

Huw

 

It's a tank for Gawd's sake!

Huw

 

As it happens they *could* be inspected at any time especially as I use a
similar quantity of red diesel for another business. I use so much derv that
it is not realistic to think that I would dilute it, especially running so
many common-rail engines ;-)

Huw

 

You may have the advantage that it is not yet commonplace so it might work.
However it would have to be a smaller nozzle to work and I am a great
believer in bigger nozzles for faster filling. A square nozzle would be
good. A tight fitting octagonal with remote venting one even better. There
is nothing worse than diesel spitting back over your shoes as the tank
fills. One of the worse offenders for this is the US built Mercedes
ML270CDi. A real pig to fill.

Huw

 

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Are you talking genuine parts or pattern stuff here?

Haven't thought to work out the cause of bent conrods then?

 

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I can assure you, noise is not an issue with the new one, and the diesel
is the 2.2 lump from the Accord.

 

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If I were cynical I'd say it's deliberately careless.