Technical fuel cock-up

[steve1112]

can anybody help solve my problem ,to cut a long story short ,i put £2 of deasel in my 02 stilo , i immediately watered it down with a further £10 of petrol it got me home but now it wont start ,any ideas on what to do any help would be appreciated .

cheers

steve1112

 

[PhilM Star]

I ve actually done this twice putting petrol into a diesel from when the tank was empty and brimmed it. The first time I drove about half a mile and the car started kangarooing. I stopped and had it towed to a garage who flushed out all the fuel (what a waste!). He managed to get it going and I had no problems. Second time I put about half petrol on top of diesel and drove 10 miles or so before I noticed. Had it flushed again and all seemed OK but I have an intermittant power loss problem now which I am told could be a damaged fuel pump due to the misfueling. Iive been told the fuel pump is linked to the ecu and you cant use a scrapyard model! quoted £2000.

I would get the fuel system flushed and see if that sorts it out

 

[Most Easterly Pandas]

I personally would have brimmed it with unleaded instead of putting in only £10!

 

[auto_blanco]

put as much more fuel in the tank as you can, make several trips with fuel cans if you need to, keep turning it over, it should be ok thats a pretty small amount to be honest, however if it was me and I had the time I would disconnect the fuel filter (i assume its at the back somewhere near the pump) and jump the fuel pump to run constantly, pump all the fuel out and then refill with petrol. It should be ok either way though.

But be prepared for it to be very smoky and dont be tempted to rev the daylights off it to clear it that wont help! Also might be worth sticking some new plugs in it when you have time as diesel is so much stickier etc

 

[Yellow Peril]

There is no in-line fuel filter fitted to the Stilo range.

 

[auto_blanco]

damn, is the 1st union on the fuel line the one up to the fuel rail then?

 

[Yellow Peril]

damn, is the 1st union on the fuel line the one up to the fuel rail then?

Not necessarily. I'm sure there will be some breaks/joins in the system somewhere underneath the car..

 

[Big Black Stilo]

you maybe able to get away with getting the fuel out of the line, brim with petrol and start it.

a mates old man did this put £5 diesel in on empty then brimmed it with petrol and it started and ran ok (ish)

 

[1383matt]

as above really, brim it with unleaded and keep turning it over, it will smoke more than usual because of the diesel being oily. then when you have it done get oil and filter change.

 

[Most Easterly Pandas]

There is no in-line fuel filter fitted to the Stilo range.

You sure. Sounds very unusual!

 

[john55]

2L diesel into 10 L petrol is 20% diesel. Way too high. If you fill the tank with petrol, you will be down to about 3.5% and will be OK.

 

[Big Black Stilo]

You sure. Sounds very unusual!

yes we are

 

[steve1112]

yes we are

Hi all would just like to say thanks to all who responded, i managed to get it started today , i ended up brimming it ,cleaned the plugs and with the aid of a bottle of quick start got it going . thanks for the advise and heres to no more cock ups

 

[Big Black Stilo]

good to see you got it running and by the sounds of it, all is ok!

 

[Hellcat]

How did you fit the diesel nozel into the petrol filler tube? The unleaded filler tube is designed so the diesel filler nozel doesn't fit.

 

[Big Black Stilo]

it can happen