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WHAT A TW#T

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yesterday i put £4.46 of diesel in my camper,nothing wrong with that i hear you say, until i tell you i have a 1.9wc petrol :oops: i noticed it at this amount and then put £30 petrol in. WILL this be ok i drove home 7 miles no problem but have left it this morning untill i get some advice :cry: what a tw#t.

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Should be fine might smoke a bit.
When you get to 3/4 of a tank top it up again then at 1/2.

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prob smoke a bit..... :lol:
good upper cyl lubrication...

at least it wasnt a lot of dweezil coz the price..

fill it right up to dilute it more...

at least with a petrol all that usually happens is it smkes, runs very rough or not at all depending on how much has been put in..
in a D/TD then filling with petrol, boosts performance then blows it up depending on how much petrol you put in..

Modern cars are less tolerant....

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Did the same many years ago, apart from being pulled by the police for lots of smoke managed to burn it off with lots of refills, soooooo embarassing but its a common mistake, you are not alone!

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nutter wrote:yesterday i put £4.46 of diesel in my camper,nothing wrong with that i hear you say, until i tell you i have a 1.9wc petrol :oops: i noticed it at this amount and then put £30 petrol in. WILL this be ok i drove home 7 miles no problem but have left it this morning untill i get some advice :cry: what a tw#t.
Lucky you have an older vehicle . The 2008 version would still be in the workshop having all sorts of probable unecessaries done to it. Good init :D !
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ken simmonds wrote:The 2008 version would still be in the workshop having all sorts of probable unecessaries done to it. Good init :D !
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yeah but it would give them a chance to doo all the recall work on it without the embarrasment of having to tell you...

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True story. As a youth after running out of petrol, in desperation I put in a bit of parrafin to get me to the garage. Won't EVER do that again. It stunk the high street out and even when I turned off the ignition it kept on running! Had to stall it to stop it....

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thanks for the replies :D it smoked a bit when i started it today and smelled as if it was on fire for a few minutes but it seems ok now :)

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CovKid wrote:True story. As a youth after running out of petrol, in desperation I put in a bit of parrafin to get me to the garage. Won't EVER do that again. It stunk the high street out and even when I turned off the ignition it kept on running! Had to stall it to stop it....
Back in the good old days I used to start my Norton 16H on petrol and switch to parafin once it was warm.
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