She called me because she couldn’t get her car started after work. We had to get it towed out of the underground parking which is quite a pain in the ass apparently.
I spent a couple hours troubleshooting the issue (smoky exhaust, barely started, ran like shit) and I burned out the starter in the process and had to put a new one in. Starters in these little 3.7L engines are pretty pathetic.
At some point in all this she mentioned she had filled up before driving to work, so I figured out how to jumper the fuel pump and pumped out this piss-colored junk. Feels oily like diesel, doesn’t burn explosively like you’d expect with straight gas.
Fresh fuel and some Seafoam snake oil to maybe clean injectors. Since I didn’t drop the tank to clean it perfectly, she’s going to put small amounts in for a few fills and burn it off completely between fills because the solution to pollution is dilution.
Her receipt showed she uses the gas pump, not the diesel, so I’m wondering how many people got to deal with this bullshit since I’m guessing the station got an entire compartment contaminated. Haven’t bothered to talk to the company, since I did the work myself and they certainly aren’t going to reimburse me for my time.
Ah well, it’s an excuse to do a pile of other maintenance I’d planned anyway and had parts for.
Wife is happy she isn’t buying a new car. Happy wife, happy life.
Filling a diesel car with gas is way worse than filling a gasoline car with diesel. Diesel in a gasoline car makes it not run. Gas in a diesel car destroys the engine and high-pressure fuel pump.
Yeah, obviously, don’t do it, and especially don’t do it on a car from this century with modern injection and shit.
I quarter filled my diesel car up with petrol before realising what I was doing. I just stopped, said shit a lot, then changed to the diesel nozzle, and filled it up to the brim.
Then rang my workmate and told him I may breakdown on the way to work so be ready, but there were no issues.
I took the car for a long drive after work then topped it up again. Kept on doing that everyday and I never had any issues at all.
I kept that car for about another 3 years before getting rid.