Petrol in a Diesel car - Help :(

It runs fine above 2000 revs, but if I put my foot down to any degree below that it miss fires a few times before picking up.
I've only noticed it in the last couple of days, I filled up on Monday, at my usual Morrisons.
Its not really running rough, just when asked at low revs.

 

4.5 litres in a 50/60 litre tank should not be too much of an issue. I doubt it very much, but does the engine sound noiser under hard acceleration? If so drain it.

T'other way round. Mostly a petrol will not run on diesel fuel.

Spot on! But the dilution is minimal. I would just add some Forté diesel fuel additive.

Yes.

No. The 206 still has a cat, and the EGR system on these is a pain in the ass at the best of times!

Agreed! It can penetrate the skin and diesel in the blood is potentially a lights out situation.


I've done a few of these engines that have had far worse with no long lasting effect. However it is your choice, and a lot of the above does depend on the condition of the pump and injectors beforehand. That said, if this finishes them off it was just around the corner anyway.
Now if it had been a Mondeo Tdci............................

 

Classic symptom of a coil pack going down. Don't take that as gospel though. Variable valve timing, variable inlet tracts and numerous other things could give similar issues. Has the engine light lit up yet?

 

\engine light/
\NOT SEEN ONE.

 

I can't believe you get info like this on GC !
Great stuff Longk and FC !
John please be more careful where you stick you're nozzle in future .

 

Oh dear John
Thankfully it was just one gallon in a full tank, or it would have been end of story for the engine
(I take it you did brim it with Diesel after the mistake and before you drove the car ?)

£175 to drain it

Several of my engineers have done it, as in fill the tank and drive off, Engine replacement

Some realised before they drove the car off the forecourt, RAC tow and drain £175

Some did as you did, and after a ropey month got through it, so long as it was brimmed

Jack McH

 

Siphon the tank and sell the contents on eBay, and refill tank to the brim with clean diesel.

Sorted!

 

That's what I said? I thought that's why the hose diameters are wider for diesels so they won't fit in a petrol car's fuelling thingy? (Very technical there :lol: )

 

There's still time

 

The engine would have sounded so wrong that they deserved a huge bill!!!!

At that ratio it will make naff all difference on a car of that age.
However, on varying cars from this age on it could be catastrophic. As said, the 206 is first generation in terms of the mechanical parts.

You can sell anything on fleabay!

You did and I read it wrongly!!

You would not believe how clever people can get when faced with getting a square peg into a round hole! Seriously, they do it!!!!

Those things are dangerous! I quite often play a game where I try to raise the average mpg by 5 to 10mpg in the trip from the owners house to the workshop.

Get the Yellow Pages out and phone round the motor factors in your area.