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Petrol in a diesel.
Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 5:33 pm
by pete
Bollocks.
Re: Petrol in a diesel.
Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 6:02 pm
by s29ttc
Phone your wee pal at the garage in kilmanock, he done Holly's mums when she mucked up and charged less than the AA's fuel support team!
Re: Petrol in a diesel.
Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 6:06 pm
by pete
s29ttc wrote:Phone your wee pal at the garage in kilmanock, he done Holly's mums when she mucked up and charged less than the AA's fuel support team!
He's shut. (Holiday.) Man coming. Not happy.
Re: Petrol in a diesel.
Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 6:35 pm
by BiggestNizzy
There is something about pressurising the fuel return pipe with a compressor and putting a tube on the pipe going into the fuel filter.
Re: Petrol in a diesel.
Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 7:40 pm
by tut
Dickhead..............
tut
Re: Petrol in a diesel.
Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 7:50 pm
by rossybee
I always thought this was the wife's job, thus giving perfect cause for a right old moan
But then my brother in law did it to my sister's car. He's a dickhead right enough. Accountant

Re: Petrol in a diesel.
Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 8:30 pm
by Dominic
rossybee wrote:I always thought this was the wife's job, thus giving perfect cause for a right old moan
But then my brother in law did it to my sister's car. He's a dickhead right enough. Accountant


Re: Petrol in a diesel.
Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 8:31 pm
by Dominic
How much petrol did you put in?
Re: Petrol in a diesel.
Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 8:41 pm
by rossybee
Dominic wrote:rossybee wrote:I always thought this was the wife's job, thus giving perfect cause for a right old moan
But then my brother in law did it to my sister's car. He's a dickhead right enough. Accountant


Damn! Doesn't quite constitute a bite

Re: Petrol in a diesel.
Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 10:08 pm
by Alistair
I made same mistake driving a friends car years ago - think it was petrol in a diesel as well IIRC.
Only put 2 or 3 litres in before realising mistake - so just filled up tank and all was well.
Thing is - it was a couple of days before their wedding (I was best man).....
They were going on a nice holiday for their honeymoon later in the year - so decided that as a wee treat after their wedding they would go for a visit to Blairdrummond Safari Park.
Guess who had to get pulled out the field by a tractor once the tank reached the petrol (the two had obviously separated - the diesel and petrol - not the newly married couple that is!)
I laughed quite a lot when he told me!
Long term car was fine - just kept filling to the brim with diesel and no harm done.
Hope you get it fixed OK.
Cheers
Alistair
Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 10:43 pm
by flyingscot68
Once when I was about 18 I put diesel in a two stroke Kawasaki AR125.
I'd only put about 3 litres in so brimmed it with petrol and gave it a go.
My max speed went from 70mph to an astounding 95! Took a while to wind up but once it got there it just kept pulling

Problem was I left a huge trail of very thick white smoke behind me :-/
I kept topping it up with petrol and it eventually went back to normal. I'm amazed it never packed in.
Re: Petrol in a diesel.
Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 11:05 pm
by sendmyusername
Flying scots, jees you must be old, my mum had one of them !
(which I got a hold of after my brother) it was like a banana, went around left handers better than right ones.
Possibly due to the fact that everytime we got around to fixing it, we either dropped it, or crashed it again.
Fun times.

Re: Petrol in a diesel.
Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 3:08 am
by tut
My first bike in 1972 was a 2 stroke, triple cylinder, Kawasaki H2 750 Mach 1V. Seems that I was fortunate to survive it. It was the fastest bike on the road at that time.
"It was notoriously dangerous, being prone to up-and-over wheelies and speed wobbles. The dangerous handling characteristics arising from its mediocre frame design caused it to be nicknamed the "Widowmaker" by motorcycle enthusiasts of the 1970s."
tut
Re: Petrol in a diesel.
Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 1:52 pm
by flyingscot68
sendmyusername wrote:Flying scots, jees you must be old, my mum had one of them !
Yes, I remember your mum well............
Re: Petrol in a diesel.
Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 9:44 pm
by sendmyusername
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Yes, I remember your mum well............[/quote]
Lol, I wouldn't wish that fate on anyone mate, I mean, my dad had to, he didn't have a choice ....