My first time too!

Post by **RogerRust** » Mon May 25, 2009 8:06 am

I broke down in the MG during the week. 1.3 miles after filling up.

Anyone like to guess?

Post by **nigelr2000** » Mon May 25, 2009 8:19 am

You didn't fill up with diesel did you ?

Post by **mckenzie** » Mon May 25, 2009 8:58 am

I would say wrong fuel too, my mrs filled her jag diesel up with petrol last year and I was`nt pleased at all telling her how stupid she was etc

then a few months later I did the same thing when I borrowed her car

you can imagine the stick I got for that

Post by **RogerRust** » Mon May 25, 2009 9:03 am

Right first time.

The nice man from the RAC brought me home and I used the electric fuel pump to pump it all out! Fortunately I was nearly out of petrol so it basically neat diesel. I sold it to my neighbour to put in his Land Rover so it wasn't too expensive a mistake. I put one gallon of petrol in to get me to the petrol station, it ran like a pig on what was probably 30% diesel but it's fine now I have diluted it out with decent petrol.

As an aside when I took the float chamber lids off to get the diesel out I was impressed with how clean they were. It looks like the diesel has removed all the old petrol brown staining that was in there.

Post by **8009STEVE** » Mon May 25, 2009 9:22 am

As an aside when I took the float chamber lids off to get the diesel out I was impressed with how clean they were. It looks like the diesel has removed all the old petrol brown staining that was in there

Every cloud?

Post by **PSL184** » Mon May 25, 2009 4:59 pm

A small amount of diesel every now and again does definately keep the pipes clean. Not too much mind or you'll be smoking like a kipper and don't do it the other way round, ie petrol in a diesel car ;-)