Unleaded petrol mixed with Diesel in a Chrysler 2.5CRD

We've just done two actually. New pump, injectors, filters and a flush
through, they cost about £3500.

If the pump siezed, and then caused engine damage, then it could top
£10,000.

Just have a look at the pistons and block casting technology in the
Honda diesel - they aren't going to survive a high speed coming
together.

 

It's up to him to decide which advice to accept and which to reject. This is
Usenet. He asked for an opinion. Mine is to carry on. It's up to him what
importance to place on this.

 

That kind of doesn't look good for diesels. Save on fuel, but repairs are
expensive...

 

3 miles would surely just about take in what was in the lines and
filter. How does unleaded mix with diesel, does it float, sink or mix?

Richard

 

Daniel J. Stern wrote:
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Even though the car is of low value

 

Given (1) how often this topic is posted by worried car owners to this
and similar newsgroups and (2) that most car owners do not use
newsgroups and therefore the postings probably represent the tip of the
iceberg, it would seem that inadvertently putting petrol into diesel
cars is quite a common problem. In which case, it is more than likely
that some drivers of cars they do not own (such as company cars and hire
cars) make the same mistake but that, unlike car owners, they keep quiet
about it.

If the consequences of doing nothing are as dire as we are told, there
must be quite a lot of these company cars and hire cars (and those that
have entered the used-car market in the several years since common rail
diesels were introduced) that have expensively broken down or are about
to do so. If that is so, I am surprised that the ruinous cost of making
a simple mistake has not attracted more media attention than I have
seen.

 

Or, more to the point, we'd see industry pressure for a unique diesel
nozzle-and-filler-pipe system such that a petrol nozzle wouldn't fit into
a diesel vehicle, similar to what was done when unleaded was introduced
next to leaded.

 

Heh - anyone else think the Cruiser is like a short wheelbase hearse, and
just as pointless?

 

It's mostly a matter of care, so far I've swapped regularly between cars
needing 4 star, unleaded, super and diesel and never put the wrong fuel in.
I'm not immune to making mistakes but I do always double check which nozzle
I've got my hand on.

 

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Indeed, although how would you prove later on that a mis-fueled diesel
would be the cause of a breakdown?

 

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As with most cars if the timing belt breaks.

In some ways I blame the consumer for the cost of repairing vehicles.
They demand greater and greater levels of technology, and yet expect it
to perform the same without paying more for the vehicle.

 

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By three miles it'd have mixed very thorougly. It'd have mixed very
thorougly just from the turbulence of the fuel entering through the
tank's neck.

 

Quite, the university of life has also learned me to double check things.
However, mistakes such as these are made, shouldn't happen, completely
unacceptable, but they do. Most of the time we're just lucky.

 

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I laughed myself silly when I first saw one.

There's an old bloke round here somewhere who has a black one with black
stickers all over it and shiny silver things all over it. Vile.

 

I think that's a bit rich. The technology is already out there, the
manufacturer who doesn't keep up with technology will just be left out in
the cold. Secondly, they increasingly like to keep the consumers off-hand
and not give out detailed service information. Like the windscreen sticker
they put on: "This car is serviced by so and so Ltd..." - No it isn't!!!

 

Indeed. The use of front wings makes the front doors curve inside the car,
like on an old 1950s Ford Perfect. Most off-putting.

 

....only to the degree they're told they "need" it by the marketeers.

 

I always imagine those cars have a ZZ Top cd playing.

 

The technology is driven almost exclusively by emission regulations.

Huw