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B3EEE Member Since: 20 Apr 2012 Location: Wales Posts: 450 |
most other forums discussing this problem suggest its safer to drain out the contaminated fuel. If the car was an old Mondeo it would probably be OK, but todays modern engine has more things that the petrol can cause to go wrong RR Sport Supercharged Vesuvius Orange 4.2 V8 First edition
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Sun Sep 22 2013 5:33pm |
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filaborg Member Since: 03 Feb 2008 Location: Essex Posts: 161 |
A little late now so just top up with diesel at every moment. |
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Sun Sep 22 2013 6:38pm |
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SCdavies Member Since: 28 Dec 2010 Location: south coast Posts: 324 |
Would be worth putting in fuel system cleaner also. |
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Sun Sep 22 2013 6:50pm |
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Disco_Mikey Member Since: 08 Apr 2012 Location: Dundee, Scotland Posts: 4395 |
13 litres of petrol in an 80 litre tank isn't the end of the world, but for piece of mind, keep topping up with fresh diesel as often as possible to help dilute the petrol as much as possible.
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Mon Sep 23 2013 5:41am |
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RRSTDV8 Member Since: 12 Aug 2011 Location: Northamptonshire Posts: 8980 |
The petrol will be acting as an injector cleaner already. It's the solvent nature of petrol which diesels don't like as it cleans the diesel off the surfaces in the high pressure fuel pump and injectors causing wear. That's what screws modern diesels when petrol is run through them as I understand it.
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Mon Sep 23 2013 6:57am |
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npinks Site Moderator Member Since: 26 Nov 2007 Location: Watching Posts: 6716 |
I your going to add two stroke make sure it's the correct one |
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Mon Sep 23 2013 7:27am |
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l2saqib Member Since: 29 Jul 2013 Location: Aylesbury Posts: 24 |
Thanks for the wonderful advice guys, car is now running as smooth as ever, have gone for the topping up of diesel at regular intervals option. Fortunately the chugging didn't last longer than a few minutes, and has not returned. Will also add some fuel system cleaner as a precaution.
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Mon Sep 23 2013 7:38am |
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l2saqib Member Since: 29 Jul 2013 Location: Aylesbury Posts: 24 |
Can anyone recommend any good fuel cleaner? Range Rover Sport HSR
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Mon Sep 23 2013 7:43am |
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Paddi Member Since: 06 Jul 2012 Location: Hertfordshire Posts: 1563 |
As has already been suggested the petrol should have cleaned the injectors but if you want to run some cleaner through anyway (not a bad thing once in a while) then Millers 'Diesel Power EcoMax' seems to be the cleaner of choice.
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Mon Sep 23 2013 11:55am |
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