So the wife put petrol in our diesel Peugeot 307!

[jARBy]

We are off on holiday on Monday, so my job was to tidy the house whilst my wife picked up a few holiday essentials and dropped the dog off at the in laws.

 

Roughly 20mins after she left I get a call... A very nervous voice on the other end of the phone explains to me that she has managed to stuff the tank with as much of the wrong fuel as physically possible!

 

As if it wasn't bad enough by the end of our conversation somehow this has become my fault!

 

Anyway, I told her not to start the car and to leave on the petrol station forecourt until I could get there!

 

I managed to get hold of a siphon kit and some 25l fuel cans from a mechanic friend and head down there!

 

I spend the 15 mins trying the get the pipe

Through the filler cap and into the tank..

 

Anyway as turns out peugeots have an anti theft gauze preventing fuel from being taken from the tank.

 

Bloody French I think to myself!

 

So I spend the next 25 minuets faffing around attempting to locate the fuel filter, thinking if I have to draw the fuel through here I may end up bleeding and re priming the system here on the forecourt. (Not preferable).

 

Then I remember when hoovering out the car a few months back I found an inspection hole in the floor underneath the near side rear seat! Take the cover off and Roberts your mothers brother, there lies the fuel pump, disconnect the out pipe connect my siphon bottle and away we go!

 

A lot of pumping and 51 litres later the fuel tank is as empty as it's going to get, so I brimmed it with diesel and hoped for the best!

 

Anyway that is the way to turn being in trouble (even if through no fault of you own) into serious brownie points and save the £200 quoted by the RAC, to do it for me. I even stuck the contaminated fuel in my old shooting truck to save that too! Win win!

 

Anyone else's life like this?

[mendiplogs]

We are off on holiday on Monday, so my job was to tidy the house whilst my wife picked up a few holiday essentials and dropped the dog off at the in laws.

 

Roughly 20mins after she left I get a call... A very nervous voice on the other end of the phone explains to me that she has managed to stuff the tank with as much of the wrong fuel as physically possible!

 

As if it wasn't bad enough by the end of our conversation somehow this has become my fault!

 

Anyway, I told her not to start the car and to leave on the petrol station forecourt until I could get there!

 

I managed to get hold of a siphon kit and some 25l fuel cans from a mechanic friend and head down there!

 

I spend the 15 mins trying the get the pipe

Through the filler cap and into the tank..

 

Anyway as turns out peugeots have an anti theft gauze preventing fuel from being taken from the tank.

 

Bloody French I think to myself!

 

So I spend the next 25 minuets faffing around attempting to locate the fuel filter, thinking if I have to draw the fuel through here I may end up bleeding and re priming the system here on the forecourt. (Not preferable).

 

Then I remember when hoovering out the car a few months back I found an inspection hole in the floor underneath the near side rear seat! Take the cover off and Roberts your mothers brother, there lies the fuel pump, disconnect the out pipe connect my siphon bottle and away we go!

 

A lot of pumping and 51 litres later the fuel tank is as empty as it's going to get, so I brimmed it with diesel and hoped for the best!

 

Anyway that is the way to turn being in trouble (even if through no fault of you own) into serious brownie points and save the £200 quoted by the RAC, to do it for me. I even stuck the contaminated fuel in my old shooting truck to save that too! Win win!

 

Anyone else's life like this?

 

Hi mate that's our friend had to have his done on his Mercedes cost him £150 towing charge and £240 and change the filters and put special stuff in the tank and away it went but that how they done his thanks Jon

[gnfencer]

a wee drop will do no harm ive seen us put a drop of petrol in among diesel when its really cold ,

and a few years back i put £10 worthof petrol in my citroen van by mistake , put another 30 litre of diesel in no harm done

[jARBy]

a wee drop will do no harm ive seen us put a drop of petrol in among diesel when its really cold ,

 

and a few years back i put £10 worthof petrol in my citroen van by mistake , put another 30 litre of diesel in no harm done

 

 

Yeah my grandad used to do it to stop it freezing!

I think 50l will do the pump no good though 💥

[easy-lift guy]

So I am really glad you had a happy ending in spite of the fact that it was your fault!, with a minor assist from the French. Nearly any car here stateside has a filler spout and neck specific to the type of fuel used. Last 3 visits I made to the UK the cars were all disel and it was not possible to put anything other than disel into the tank?, they were all were peugeots.

easy-lift guy

[RichieR]

How could you be so cruel to make her subconsciously put petrol in the car. Mind you I hope she doesn't make you subconsciously put the dishes in the washing machine by mistake

Edited August 8, 2015 by RichieR

[easy-lift guy]

Diesel!, long day spell check optional!

easy-lift guy

[Two Acres]

I did it myself six or seven years agon on holiday in Corsica. Filled up the hire with the wrong fpuel, can't remember which way around it was. Despite speaking virtually no French I managed to tell the mechanic at the garage what I'd done and he very kindly syphoned it out for me, fag in hand!

[jARBy]

I did it myself six or seven years agon on holiday in Corsica. Filled up the hire with the wrong fpuel, can't remember which way around it was. Despite speaking virtually no French I managed to tell the mechanic at the garage what I'd done and he very kindly syphoned it out for me, fag in hand!

 

 

Nice!

[THE88MAN]

Have sympathy with me then,in my poor,naive younger days I put the wrong colour diesel in about twice a week