When I vacationed in the UK last April the car rental company was laying out the different insurance options and one of the higher tier ones was the “wrong fuel protection” because I was renting a small diesel Renault and they rent to a lot of stupid Americans apparently. I kindly informed the desk clerk that, while I…

You would do the same thing. Except you’d need to replace your fuel pump and injectors since gasoline doesn’t have the same lubricating properties as diesel so your fuel pump and injectors will fuck themselves up pretty bad. Gasoline will cause: low fuel pressure in your injector lines (if its a common rail system,…

Ask me what happens when you fill up your diesel tank with DEF fluid..doh

I worked on a friends car once that did exactly that. Oddly, the biodiesel the person was running prior to pumping the tank 3/4 full of gas helped save most of the engine and components. We had to drain the tank and lines completely, clean the injectors, and replace the injector pump. All in all the cost was in the…

What about kerosene? I know a guy who once filled a 20’ box truck with kerosene just before returning it to the rental place. (He was tired! He’d just moved 3 families!)

When I was having my E320 delivered to me I freaked out when the driver said he put gas in it because the car is a diesel. Luckily he actually put in the diesel, just his terminology was a bit off. However, my brother manage to put gasoline in my dad’s Citroen C4 Picasso and that was not fun . The process was very…

YES!!!!!!!!

Happened to my dad at a full service station, told the attendant to fill it up with diesel and he poured in gasoline; the whole tank.

The best method is do not start the engine and drain and flush the tank and you should be good.

Unhook the fuel feed line and add an extension to drain it in a safe container. Run the in tank fuel pump untill empty. Done.

I’ve got two turbodiesels (TDI and Duramax), a gas/electric (Rx400h), and a BEV (500e). Haven’t mixed fuel sources yet, but imagine mixing 32A 240V into a gasoline filler. With the 9% relative humidity we have right now, it seems like rubbing your hands together will start a fire.

My neighbor had a Merc W124 300TD, every winter he put a liter or two of gasoline (on purpose) and topped the rest of the tank with diesel. He claimed that it actually made the car run better in the colder months. I don’t know if it’s true, but the engine was fine and ran like a champ, never saw it broken down or…

This happened to my dad in New Jersey when he used to drive a diesel Cadillac. I say used to because we only made it to the end of the parking lot before the thing died and we were stranded and the guy refused any wrong doing. Gotta love a state that doesn’t allow you pump your own fuel >.<

I rented a diesel Audi in Italy a few weeks ago and there were signs EVERYWHERE on it, including the gas cap and dash and gas cap release and inside of the gas cap cover and the key fob saying DIESEL ONLY. I feel like maybe they had some bad experiences with Americans putting petrol instead of diesel...

As I said above, did it last month!

Would you rather a man who defines the term “southern boy” tell you?

1. Take the money and get it fixed.