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What do you do when your vehicle's gas tank gets filled with diesel instead of super unleaded as required by the car manufacturer?
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∙ 13y ago
Do not run the engine!
Call out your nearest good car mechanic - or get the vehicle towed to him - and have him drain the fuel tank.
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If the amount of diesel is less than petrol, the engine might still run, but it will run poorly.
If the diesel is above the ratio of petrol, it might not run at all.
In either case the petrol engine should be just fine after you have done all this:
- first, to get rid of the contaminated fuel, empty the tank into jerry cans made to hold fuel
- then rinse it out at least twice with some clean petrol, again emptying it into fuel jerry cans
- throw all that contaminated petrol away: take the jerry cans to your town's local "fuel and oil dump". It is highly dangerous - and also illegal - to use your house drainage system or the gutter in your road!
- Fill the tank with clean petrol.
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On the other hand, if petrol is used in a diesel engine that is really bad.
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