Put Diesel fuel by accident, help.
11-05-2010, 09:33 PM
#1
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Put Diesel fuel by accident, help.
My wife put in less than 3 gallons of diesel fuel tonight by accident.
Toyota Rav 4.
Now it runs really bad. She stopped and put in just a few gallons on an empty tank and then when coming home the car started to run really bad. Since it's dark out, I can't tell if blue smoke is coming out the pipe.
What to do?
It has a big tank, should I just fill it up and run it since theres just a few gallons of diesel, or should I tow it in and have it all drained?
Advice.
Toyota Rav 4.
Now it runs really bad. She stopped and put in just a few gallons on an empty tank and then when coming home the car started to run really bad. Since it's dark out, I can't tell if blue smoke is coming out the pipe.
What to do?
It has a big tank, should I just fill it up and run it since theres just a few gallons of diesel, or should I tow it in and have it all drained?
Advice.
11-05-2010, 10:01 PM
#2
put several gallons of gas in on top of the diesel, and it will run rough, but it will run it out, then run some injector cleaner through it, it will be fine. You could siphon out the diesel if you wanted.
11-05-2010, 11:03 PM
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I filled it up with premium. Ran really bad for several minutes then slowly ran better and better. It seems OK now. Ill have my wife run it out of gas and fill it back up and then I'll add the injector cleaner and get an oil change (needs it anyway)
Should I add inj. clraner now, or what until then next tank of pure gas?
Should I add inj. clraner now, or what until then next tank of pure gas?
11-17-2010, 12:51 PM
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11-20-2010, 03:50 PM
#11
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Did it.
It needed an oil change, oil filter, tranny fluid change, spark plugs, air filter, cabin filter and fuel filter change at 50K miles anyway, so i went ahead and had and did it
The belts looked ok, but I'm pricing those soon.
I did all but the tranny fluid and fuel filter myself.
She's running like a charm, both the Rav4 and the wife.
It needed an oil change, oil filter, tranny fluid change, spark plugs, air filter, cabin filter and fuel filter change at 50K miles anyway, so i went ahead and had and did it
The belts looked ok, but I'm pricing those soon.
I did all but the tranny fluid and fuel filter myself.
She's running like a charm, both the Rav4 and the wife.
11-20-2010, 03:59 PM
#12
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Did it.
It needed an oil change, oil filter, tranny fluid change, spark plugs, air filter, cabin filter and fuel filter change at 50K miles anyway, so i went ahead and had and did it
The belts looked ok, but I'm pricing those soon.
I did all but the tranny fluid and fuel filter myself.
She's running like a charm, both the Rav4 and the wife.
It needed an oil change, oil filter, tranny fluid change, spark plugs, air filter, cabin filter and fuel filter change at 50K miles anyway, so i went ahead and had and did it
The belts looked ok, but I'm pricing those soon.
I did all but the tranny fluid and fuel filter myself.
She's running like a charm, both the Rav4 and the wife.
Your story has a nice happy ending because I've seen it the other way around. I'm the Parts Manager at one of our local VW dealers and we had a salesman "inadvertently" put gas into a diesel Touareg. Ho boy, what an expensive mistake that was. 
11-20-2010, 04:24 PM
#13
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Awesome. Happy to hear it. We all know that we have to keep the SO's vehicle in good working order or no one's happy. Your story has a nice happy ending because I've seen it the other way around. I'm the Parts Manager at one of our local VW dealers and we had a salesman "inadvertently" put gas into a diesel Touareg. Ho boy, what an expensive mistake that was.
Your story has a nice happy ending because I've seen it the other way around. I'm the Parts Manager at one of our local VW dealers and we had a salesman "inadvertently" put gas into a diesel Touareg. Ho boy, what an expensive mistake that was. We (I) got lucky cause...
1) Empty tank.
2) Only put in a few gallons.
3) Only drove it a few miles.
I feel lucky about it.
And, on a side nore, there was a happy ending to this...jus not the happy ending that I'd like....................................
Lol...
11-26-2010, 08:00 AM
#15
Melting Slicks
Had a friend of mine put Kerosene in his wife's brand new diesel X5 He got soaked by the BMW dealership for a total of $1,200 for that mistake (including a $200 flat bed tow)
To this day, I think he must have been damn near sleeping to make that mistake. The Kerosene dispenser sits all by itself away from the gas and diesel fuel. I still bust his ***** about it.
To this day, I think he must have been damn near sleeping to make that mistake. The Kerosene dispenser sits all by itself away from the gas and diesel fuel. I still bust his ***** about it.
12-01-2010, 06:01 PM
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Here is what I was doing around this time last year when the radiator blew up in my wife's Mazda leaving her and 3 high school kids stranded. The over-heat blew the headgasket and who knows what else, so I elected to swap in a 40K mile Japan take-out motor.
12-07-2010, 07:12 PM
#18
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It doesn't have the cetane or Btu's as #2 fuel, but it is diesel. It won't make all the power of #2 diesel fuel, but it'll run a lot cleaner.
Now that it's getting chilly around the US, some people use kerosene in their diesel fuel vehicles because of the freeze/gelpoint.
