(T) Put petrol in my brava jtd

The other day went down to the fuel station for my normal fill up for the week. was filling my car whilst thinking whether to get a half or full tank of diesel. then lo and behold looked on the fuel pump meter and green hose in my hand and realised i just put half a tank of petrol. gutted

Have you drained the tank since ?

Try not to run it, but get tank and lines drained.


Trev

As said above - did you run it?

I did the same thing with my multijet GP - I accidently filled up with petrol. Paid for it and just set off from the Petrol station, realised what i had done. pulled over (only about 20 yrds) and switched engine off.

I was towed home - keeping the engine switched off, even if the car isnt moving but the engine is running then fuel will still get through!!

Next day syphoned out the fuel then bought a few litres of diesel and took the car to the petrol station - with another car following just incase it conked out. Then brimmed the car with v-power diesel and took the car on a really good drive to test it out.

Over the next few weeks I only let the tank get 1/2 to 3/4 empty before i filled up - making sure whatever petrol was left in the tank was being well diluted in the diesel.

I only got away with it because i didnt drive more than a few yards before i realised and killed the engine. Making sure there was a good chance little or no petrol got through.

You might also want to change the fuel filter too. I didnt do this because i dont think the petrol contaminated it.

This was about a year ago and the car has been fine since. But this all depends if or how much you ran the car....

well i didn't start the car when i realised what i had done. i just pushed the car to the side and called the aa who took almost 3hrs to arrive even though i told them i had my 1 and a half yr old toddler with me. Only to be told that they'll only recover me and that i'll have to pay separately to a garage to remove fuel. i then decide to try and siphon petrol muyself using a cut off washing machine hose. after a few gulps of sucking petrol. i gave up when i check the fuel gauge hadn't even moved. i didn't go to bed to about 4am and had to be up for 6am with a petrol breath

had to use the the missus gas guzzler to get to work which cost me £20 for a round trip (cost £10 with the brava ) yesterday .

i managed to buy a silverline siphone pump yesterday which i tried to use last night but it didn't work. so i had a choice to use the missus car again or brave it to the fuel station lastnight and fill it up with diesel (a 50/50 petrol diesel mix) and pray to God. Guess what i did...

yes im sure u guessed put more diesel and prayed. left car overnight and fired her up this morning and it drive 65 miles to work this morning... i LOVE fiats

the brava jtd rocks... although i was s@%ting myself on my way to work....

were you trying to syphon from the fuel filler or did you access the tank?

the tank but i wont be trying that again... i'll be putting more diesel when it gets to 3/4 full to gradually dissolve the remaining petrol

The best way to remove the wrong fuel efficiently is to disconnect the main fuel line under the bonnet, connect it to a pipe running into a big enough container (or a series of smaller ones) then power up the electric fuel pump. You will then be able to pump out as much of the fuel as the pick up pipe can access right down to empty.
Because the fuel pumps on injection engines are high capacity it doesn't take long to empty a tank. Ideally you should use an outside power source to power up the pump rather than the car ignition.
Be careful of main dealers as many of them will insist that the whole fuel system will need to be replaced!! The AA have special fuel recovery vans that deal with this problem but they charge about £190 to do it for you.

Pumps are no more high capacity to older cars (your on about pressure )

Oh, and if you do this when you put petrol in a DERV your looking at buggaring the pump and most rubber components in the fuel system

Yes I did mean pressure, but surely pressure will equal capacity in this instance?

As for your statement about buggering the components that is crap, the method of removing fuel I described is how the AA do it and their records show very few fuel pump or system problems after pump outs, even considering the amount of mis-fuelled cars, both diesel and petrol, they deal with every day.