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Author Topic: Have you ever put the wrong fuel into a vehicle?  (Read 4281 times)

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Re: Have you ever put the wrong fuel into a vehicle?
« Reply #30 on: 17 September 2011, 14:58:33 »
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... that should have been AVTUR (Aviation Turbine Fuel).... .....

So what's AVTUR like then? The only turbines I've ever worked on had super heated steam (550psi 850oF) going through them.


It's essentially Kerosene IIRC. Can't see AVGAS (petrol) doing a turbine engine a lot of good. :o
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Re: Have you ever put the wrong fuel into a vehicle?
« Reply #31 on: 17 September 2011, 15:03:59 »
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It's essentially Kerosene IIRC. Can't see AVGAS (petrol) doing a turbine engine a lot of good. :o

Ah! Parrafin then  ;) ;) ;)

I don't think it'd be a good idea to be around to find out!  ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Have you ever put the wrong fuel into a vehicle?
« Reply #32 on: 17 September 2011, 20:46:25 »
I borrowed a Triumph Rocket 3 off my brother from his works and put diesel in it .....Doooh :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ .Well my excuse was I drove a truck and my diesel mig at the time ,so all things ran on diesel ::) ::) Luckily I realised what I had gone and done ,so I didn't start it up and made a very sheepish phone call to him to come and collect it  :-[ :-[ Heres url so you can have a butchers at one http://www.triumphmotorcycles.co.uk/motorcycles/range/cruisers/rocket/2010/rocket-III-roadster
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Re: Have you ever put the wrong fuel into a vehicle?
« Reply #33 on: 17 September 2011, 21:20:36 »
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Voted no, but know someone who has and cost him a fortune for some company to come out to the garage and sort him out.....

I have had to remember to double check at times though.. ::) ::)

So why not tick that option then ::) ::)

I did..... ::) ::) :-*
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Re: Have you ever put the wrong fuel into a vehicle?
« Reply #34 on: 17 September 2011, 21:26:42 »
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.. Heres url so you can have a butchers at one http://www.triumphmotorcycles.co.uk/motorcycles/range/cruisers/rocket/2010/rocket-III-roadster

A bloke at work used to have one with a cut off exhaust ............ it was loud enough to wake the dead!  :o :o
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Re: Have you ever put the wrong fuel into a vehicle?
« Reply #35 on: 17 September 2011, 21:32:43 »
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.... put a fivers worth of unleaded in, put £10 worth of diesel in afterwards, ...

Last of the big spenders ............  ::) ::) ::)

Oh yeah, currently I put £10 in the van and £20 in the big depending on which I take out, and all my vehicles that are purely sales vehicles has £5 in them :)
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Re: Have you ever put the wrong fuel into a vehicle?
« Reply #36 on: 17 September 2011, 21:38:57 »
I put about £6 worth of petrol in my Citroen C3 HDI in about 2003. Tanked it with Diesel and no problems. Just as well as it only had 80 miles on it ::) ;D
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Re: Have you ever put the wrong fuel into a vehicle?
« Reply #37 on: 17 September 2011, 23:36:47 »
I've never done it but about 20 years ago I sold a Volvo DL-240 in a private sale, the guy that bought it thought the 'DL' stood for diesel and promptly filled up with it only to wonder why it stopped just as he got off the forecourt of the filling station. he tried to get me to take the car back and refund his money or pay for the clean-up work to be done saying I hadn't made it clear to him that it was a petrol engine. I told him to make love to his own anus (or words to that effect)
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Re: Have you ever put the wrong fuel into a vehicle?
« Reply #38 on: 18 September 2011, 12:10:44 »
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Re: Have you ever put the wrong fuel into a vehicle?
« Reply #39 on: 18 September 2011, 12:23:44 »
I've never done it, but I drive petrol cars only - hate diesel and their sound >:(
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Re: Have you ever put the wrong fuel into a vehicle?
« Reply #40 on: 18 September 2011, 12:25:17 »
I've put petrol in my wifes diesel a couple of times ::)
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Re: Have you ever put the wrong fuel into a vehicle?
« Reply #41 on: 18 September 2011, 14:06:36 »
I put unleaded in my diesel van in a tesco once partly on auto pilot and partly due to them only having city diesel using a yellow hose, realised before starting so rolled it off the forecourt drained and diluted what was left. Also put diesel into my jag xjs that smoked a little but did get me back home. drained tank refilled not problem. I use too many vehicles and have to double check often.
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Re: Have you ever put the wrong fuel into a vehicle?
« Reply #42 on: 18 September 2011, 14:19:52 »
nope never! Kinda hard to put LPG in the unleaded tank  ;D
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Re: Have you ever put the wrong fuel into a vehicle?
« Reply #43 on: 18 September 2011, 15:06:30 »
.... And if you did incorrectly fill fuel tank, lpg would still get you there anyway. Al be it to a garage to pump the fuel out.  :)
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Re: Have you ever put the wrong fuel into a vehicle?
« Reply #44 on: 18 September 2011, 20:06:55 »
Sort of did that.

How about 10 000 litres lube oil into a waste oil tank?

At least we were able to recover it and burn it through the main engine over a few days, once it was mixed with the crap that normally went though it!
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