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Old 31st October 2019, 19:24   #21
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When I was driving my trucks through Eastern Turkey during the winter where temperatures drop to -50c I used to put 25 litres of petrol and 75 litres diesel per 100 litres. This was enough to keep the fule fluid whilst driving but overnight the fuel lines and filter were always gelled up, a nightmare doing that route in the Winter.


I might also add that when the fuel strike was on and diesel was in short supply I put a fair amount of 2 star to what diesel I had and added some oil to get me from Knutsford Services to Bristol.
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Old 31st October 2019, 22:13   #22
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My wife put petrol in her diesel Peugeot.

I disconnected the pipe at the filter to get the diesel out.

I put a pipe from my compressor into the fuel filler with cloth packed around it. Slightly pressurised the tank and got all of the fuel out that way.

No electricity or sparks involved.

Still have some of that mixture left after several years now. No use in a car but a very, very small quantity makes starting bonfires very easy.------
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Old 1st November 2019, 14:49   #23
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Old lorry drivers trick, and I still do it. When you take the pipe off the pump, smell the end of the pipe to see what it is telling you, before putting it in your tank to fill up.
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Old 3rd November 2019, 09:44   #24
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Diesel fuel has a lower auto ignition temperature than petrol (I don't mean flash point which is the temperature of ignition in the presence of a flame) so if you have neat petrol in a diesel engine the air temp on compression wont be high enough to ignite it. Diesel is a lubricant for the moving parts of the injection system so the addition of petrol in any significant amounts will reduce the lubrication. I am not sure about the safety aspects of petrol in a diesel fuel system; there is a constant return of fuel from the injection system to the fuel tank which Rover decided needed a fuel cooler behind the RH back wheel so there must be some risk?
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Old 3rd November 2019, 11:27   #25
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I put £20 of V-Power 99RON into my CDTi.
Expensive mistake. I only realised as soon as I put the nozzle back. I just took handbrake off and pushed my car into one of the parking bays. I don’t see the point ‘risking it’....you just don’t know what damage you could be causing and you have to assume that once you filled up the rest of the tank with diesel, that the mixture will be fully diluted which you just can’t guarantee.

I called the fuel doctor guys out to drain the tank and it cost me about £190....by far the most expensive 10ltrs of diesel I’ve ever had
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