Please help !

After picking up my new 2.7 diesel 56 plate RR Sport I have added £60 of petrol to the existing 1/4 tank of diesel. The car was driven home 2 miles and was fine but now I need to drain the fuel tank to get rid of the petrol. Does anyone have instructions of what I should do and how I should do it please ? The car will not start so the petrol has obviously hit the system.

Any help greatly appreciated !!

Thanks
An embarassed Pete

You need to disconnect the low pressure fuel line, but that will still feed petrol through the fuel pump. Petrol strips the pump of diesel oil lubrication. Best to call the AA and pay out the £200 or whatever it costs to drain it. Don't call LRA or you'll end up at a dealer where they will want to replace the pumps and all the lines.....

Then get some diesel in and run it asap to get enough diesel in all the places the petrol has stripped it of lubricant.....

Surprised you managed to get it home TBH. Best to not start it and just call Aa/rac straight away. Even if your not a member they'll come out for misfuels but might cost a bit more than a member. Bodsys Brake Bible
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we have all done this at some point in our driving life ...done this in my van once

if you have a machine mart near you you can buy a syphon fuel kit for about 40 quid the hose fits in the fuel cap end and then you can pump out ..

but you need containers

if you ring AA or RAC they call it contaminated fuel and will have to take you to a depot to drain and dispose of safely

or if your confident you can get a syphon pump from screwfix that fits a cordless drill and then to b&Q for a hose that is small enought to get past the anti syphon device in filler neck bit of hassle but if you are a bit nifty with your hands you will find it breeze

if not then time to pay the fiddler and pay some garage bundles to do

good luck

get a electric pump,take the pipe off the diesel filter & drain it that way.then put diesel in tank conect pipes back up & turn engine over & it should start ok as a bit of petrol will not hurt a diesel.years ago we used to put a gallon or 2 in the tanks of trucks to stop the diesel from freezing & we never had any probs. Gone,,TDV8 arctic frost,black leather,colour coded handles,rear entertainment,sunroof.
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get a electric pump,take the pipe off the diesel filter & drain it that way.then put diesel in tank conect pipes back up & turn engine over & it should start ok as a bit of petrol will not hurt a diesel.years ago we used to put a gallon or 2 in the tanks of trucks to stop the diesel from freezing & we never had any probs. Gone,,TDV8 arctic frost,black leather,colour coded handles,rear entertainment,sunroof.
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Some insurance companies cover this for free, on fully comp policies, might be worth looking through the small print

Wong fuel

Supermarkets selling cheap fuel now the takeaways have jumped on the band wagon

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Wok the f ck did you do that for  MY10 3.0 HSE Santorini Black, Ivory Premium & extended leather, privacy, paddles, diamond turned alloys, Ipod lead that charges, tasmods, rrsport.co.uk stickers

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Airwolf, none of my family has ever done it in spite of a mixture of diesel and petrol cars. Even my wife has never done it......It's a fairly dumb thing to do, even for someone with only a small brain. Gone - 2008 Stornoway Grey RRS 2.7 TDV6
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@ BKHK

...still, it hasn't yet cost you the £5k (yes 5 thousand) it cost me when I misfuelled my Disco (still under warranty) earlier this year - I really thought I was putting a FULL tank of Diesel in it; i didn't think I needed petrol. I blame the different coloured hoses and pumps at every garage.

It wasn't until I had driven 5 miles and the car stopped, called Land Rover Assist and set the whole recovery thing in motion that i smelt petrol.... NEVER thought I'd be caught out by it and had given other family members so much grief when they had done it (repeatedly, in the same car). So, it happens, even to blokes who think they know better.... and the dealer had 4 other TDV6's in that week also trying to run on Petrol.

Apparently you need to get the petrol out sharpish as it attacks the seals and strips the system of lubrication (which diesel amply provides). Suggest that once you're back up and running that you invest in a 'Solo Diesel' or similar so you "can't" misfuel.

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