Engine: D52447: Petrol in a diesel car – misfueling.

[Teejay1]

Originally Posted by Cheshire

SUCCESS!
On the third short attempt it started, no coughing or spluttering not even any puffs of smoke. I let it idle for about 20 mins, took it up to the garage topped up and went for a gentle drive of about 10 miles. All seems to be well, just had to re-set the clock.

My sincere thanks to you both, Neil and Clan for guiding me through on this one. without your help I would have been...... well, you know.

Happy Easter!

Tim

Wooo Hooo good news I guess you somewhat pleased.

[Cheshire]

Originally Posted by Teejay1

Wooo Hooo good news I guess you somewhat pleased.

Simply pleased?????? More like ecstatic!!!!!!

[Cheshire]

Originally Posted by NCS XC90

Just for information, it took quite some cranking to get mine started after draining and refilling with diesel. I think this was simply pumping it through (and the air out). I did it in spells and not continuous cranking. I'm just pointing this out as I was getting to the point were I thought it was not going to start and could quite easily have given up and called in a garage to help.
Neil

Neil
I tried to send you and Clan a personal message of thanks but I was blocked by the admin. (need to post 30 messages first). So again, many thanks and best wishes to you both for your support.


Tim
(Isle of Wight)

P.S. My wife hasn't noticed any difference at all but then she only drives it from the back seat.

[NCS XC90]

Happy you managed to get it going. Based on my experience I don't think you will have a problem going forward with this now. I remember the feeling of relief when mine started and settled down to a normal tick over. Well done – just need to figure out what you are going to do with all that mixed fuel now.
Neil

[eazyrider]

I've misfuelled once too, about a year ago and then panically searched for some kind of protection because I'm such a mind-wanderer and was afraid that it will happen again. I've bought SoloDiesel and I'm very satisfied with it. Hope I can post a link here, if not admins please delete it.

http://www.solodiesel.eu/

[pabarret]

Hi guys, I hope you don't mind me resurrecting this ancient thread, just have a little bit to add, I filled 40litres of petrol into my 04 S80 D5 last night from empty, the girl in the shop said I had used petrol, so no long drive or anything, just started it to move it away from the pump. Big panick, looked this up and read this thread, and was planning on doing what previous posters have done but reasoned that there was currently no petrol in the filter housing and therefore it would be better to try something else rather than contaminate the filter or housing with petrol. My friend has one of those electric oil change pump things that goes down the dipstick so called my friend, reversed around the pipes on the pump so that the longest hose (around 6 feet) was the suction line and pushed it down the filler line. Pumped must of the petrol straight from my car to his and the rest into a 25 Ltr drum, cycling the key on and off regularly to transfer between the tanks, got the gauge reading below the red and trip computer reading "--- miles to empty tank" then filled up to the neck with diesel and drove on. 100 miles later and no problems. Really easy, no mess and bleeding and changing filters or anything. I hope this helps someone in the future. Please be careful what pump you use tho, maybe the manual one is safer, less likely to blow yourself up! But all in it was no great drama, all pumped out and restarted in 40 mins.

[RoyMacDonald]

Originally Posted by pabarret

Hi guys, I hope you don't mind me resurrecting this ancient thread, just have a little bit to add, I filled 40litres of petrol into my 04 S80 D5 last night from empty, the girl in the shop said I had used petrol, so no long drive or anything, just started it to move it away from the pump. Big panick, looked this up and read this thread, and was planning on doing what previous posters have done but reasoned that there was currently no petrol in the filter housing and therefore it would be better to try something else rather than contaminate the filter or housing with petrol. My friend has one of those electric oil change pump things that goes down the dipstick so called my friend, reversed around the pipes on the pump so that the longest hose (around 6 feet) was the suction line and pushed it down the filler line. Pumped must of the petrol straight from my car to his and the rest into a 25 Ltr drum, cycling the key on and off regularly to transfer between the tanks, got the gauge reading below the red and trip computer reading "--- miles to empty tank" then filled up to the neck with diesel and drove on. 100 miles later and no problems. Really easy, no mess and bleeding and changing filters or anything. I hope this helps someone in the future. Please be careful what pump you use tho, maybe the manual one is safer, less likely to blow yourself up! But all in it was no great drama, all pumped out and restarted in 40 mins.

Did you do both tanks? Belay that, it's an S80, no AWD shaft.

[dave morton]

rumour was that the breakdown services were going to charge for draining the system because of high numbers, anyone know if this has come into force

[volvo for ever]

saddle tanks there is special tool you remove hose from tank insert metal tube which allows you to get from 1 saddle to another insert tubing and drain off fuel ..

advise putting couple of diesel treatments through it and renew fuel filter as a minimum

[NCS XC90]

Wow, this brings back memories. No problem with mine since. Well not with this.