Managed to squeeze £60 worth of petrol into my car yesterday
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- leatherpatches
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Managed to squeeze £60 worth of petrol into my car yesterday
Shame it's a diesel...
DOH!
DOH!
Re: Managed to squeeze £60 worth of petrol into my car yesterday
Did you (expensively) start the engine afterwards, or realise in time what you'd done?
Guess it's gotta be flushed either way.
Ouch.
Guess it's gotta be flushed either way.
Ouch.
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Re: Managed to squeeze £60 worth of petrol into my car yesterday
Just put £210 in my tank today about 190 litres worth
. I might get 2 days out of it, mind you work has ferkin died so it might last me a lot longer 
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Re: Managed to squeeze £60 worth of petrol into my car yesterday
leatherpatches wrote:Shame it's a diesel...
DOH!
Johnnyb wrote:Just put £210 in my tank today about 190 litres worth.
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Re: Managed to squeeze £60 worth of petrol into my car yesterday
Luckily didn't start the engine. Cost me £194 to get it drained, pumped and petrol disposed of (yeah right into their cars I expect). No tow fee as I did it at the lorry park Texaco in Exeter.
Apparently if I'd started it then it could have cost about 10 times that with a common rail diesel engine so could have been worse.
Anyway, cheers for the messages of support!

Apparently if I'd started it then it could have cost about 10 times that with a common rail diesel engine so could have been worse.
Anyway, cheers for the messages of support!
Re: Managed to squeeze £60 worth of petrol into my car yesterday
Put £56 of Diesel in the car last nightJohnnyb wrote:Just put £210 in my tank today about 190 litres worth. I might get 2 days out of it, mind you work has ferkin died so it might last me a lot longer
All gone tonight
Just put another £56 in
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Re: Managed to squeeze £60 worth of petrol into my car yesterday
Forgot to mentionPeterM wrote:Put £56 of Diesel in the car last nightJohnnyb wrote:Just put £210 in my tank today about 190 litres worth. I might get 2 days out of it, mind you work has ferkin died so it might last me a lot longer
All gone tonight
Just put another £56 in
Peter
Myself and two other bikes toured Scotland last week (just over 2000 miles) and we stopped for fuel
one of the guys started filling up and the pump stopped working
Petrol attendant came out and said he had hit the stop button because it was a diesel pump....total diesel in tank was 7 pence so it was well diluted which sure was lucky as it would have spoilt our tour
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Re: Managed to squeeze £60 worth of petrol into my car yesterday
thats lucky that you had a alert attendant,theres not going to be many fue statins that have someone as good as that
ive given up looking at my fuel bills,its got to be over £200 a week but luckily i dont have to pay
ive given up looking at my fuel bills,its got to be over £200 a week but luckily i dont have to pay
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Re: Managed to squeeze £60 worth of petrol into my car yesterday
forgot to add that my wife put petrol in my old diesel civic and managed to drive it from st austell to plymouth and bcak for xmas shopping a couple of years ago without any problems whatsoever,although it did go wrong on the sunday night a mile from home 
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Re: Managed to squeeze £60 worth of petrol into my car yesterday
i put £50 of petrol in my truck one morning while still half asleep, i just topped it up with another £120 of diesel and it ran fine so i guess i was lucky 
Re: Managed to squeeze £60 worth of petrol into my car yesterday
moronleatherpatches wrote:Shame it's a diesel...
DOH!
Re: Managed to squeeze £60 worth of petrol into my car yesterday
Johnnyb wrote:i put £50 of petrol in my truck one morning while still half asleep, i just topped it up with another £120 of diesel and it ran fine so i guess i was lucky
Lucky bugger. Must be an old thumpin diesel to get away with that.
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