redwingslandrover
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Brothers wife put petrol in there diesel disco it now sounds like a old transit van hunters want between £1500to£2000 to put it right . Is this a bit expensive
Petrol in diesel disco 3
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ratty
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What are they wanting to do to it to put it right? The tank needs draining and re-fuelling correctly. The engine will then quieten back down gradually over the next 100 miles. It's worth noting that depending on what the ratio of contam was and the distance travelled, the in tank fuel pump may have a shorter life span now.
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yep just drain the tank, replace filter and should be ok
redwingslandrover
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He rang me tonight its been taken to the main dealers they are going to tell him how much tomorrow but said it was going to be around 1500to2000 to fix.I did say to him that i would drain the tank change the diesel filter and clean the lines out.Hes going to let me know tomorrow what they say needs doing.
He is either absolutely mad or he's got far too much money!
IT IS ALMOST CERTAIN NO REAL HARM HAS BEEN DONE!
The main stealers will know that but they want your cash, so they will tell you all sorts of amazing fibs. YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE and TWO GRAND TO SAVE !
They are not called MAIN STEALERS for nothing!
The following procedure is probably EXACTLY what the main stealer will do first.
More than likely it is all they will need to do to fix it - for £1,500 to £2,000.
Take the car back out, on tow or trailer. Do not try to start it.
Drain the tank, as far as you can, by a tube down the filler neck or any other way.
A good way but slow is the fuel feed pipe under the bonnet. You may even be able to use the low pressure pump (I think Disco3 has one) to PUMP the fuel out. Anyway, you don't need to get excited about getting out every last drop of petrol, just most of it.
Then heave a whole lot of cheap ENGINE oil (tractor universal or a SAE 30 monograde would be fine) into the FUEL tank. You want to throw in at least TWICE AS MUCH engine oil as you think there might be petrol still in there.
Now go through the FUEL PURGE system, which I don't know for a Disco 3. But I bet someone here does, and anyway, as it's a common rail engine it might just do it by itself. What I would force it to do would be pressurise up a good number of times. Turn the IGN ON but not the starter, wait ten seconds, turn off, wait 5 minutes, and repeat half a dozen times. This is to drive oily fuel (diesel-petrol-engine oil mix) through the high pressure pump and to the common rails and injectors, and back to the tank. Quite a lot of fuel CIRCULATES in these systems, and it will pretty soon sort itself out.
Now start the engine, and let it tick over. It may be VERY SMOKEY for a while especially on start-up, and it may take a little time on the starter to fire up cleanly, but I think that will all clear soon after the oily fuel clears the lines and injectors.
When you are happy it is running OK, take it to the garage and fill it up with good diesel.
If you have money to throw away, I bet dozens of LandyZoners will do it for a grand. That's half-price! You could save a grand this way, or bloody near twice that trying what I and the forum guys are suggesting.
But if money is no object and you don't mind getting ripped-off, leave it with the main stealer.
CharlesY
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redwingslandrover
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i will leave it up to him i have offered to fix it
For a thousand pounds it is nearly worth my while coming down 420 miles to do it!
I repeat - IT IS ALMOST CERTAIN THAT NO REAL HARM HAS BEEN DONE!
I have sorted a dozen or so of these in the last few years, and none of them were ever the worse for it afterwards.
But it's his Disco and his cash.
CharlesY
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I have to drain and restart at least one vehicle a week, It can sometimes be 2 or 3 a day.
In the 12 years I've worked as a rescue technician I think I've probably only come across about 5 vehicles that haven't started after being drained.
If you go to a main dealer they will often tell you how they remove the tank, clean it out and then re-fit it. In many cases this is a load of bollocks. What they actually do is to stick a pipe down the filler neck and vaccuum the tank out. They then fit and bill you for a new in tank fuel pump.
You are far better off emptying the tank and then changing the fuel pump when it has died rather than before. Yes it can shorten the life of the pump but why change a fuel pump just cos it might fail 2 months earlier due to the extra wear the petrol caused. It's not like you had a date that it was gonna fail anyway.
Saddle bag tanks (tanks that straddle both sides of the exhaust or prop shafts) like those fitted to D3's, freelanders and L322's are a right pain to get every last drop of fuel out of. You will generally end up with a gallon of fuel still left in them after draining them. This is perfectly normal. Just brim the tank with the correct fuel to help dilute whats left.
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we had a custorm coming in at hillendale landrover where i used to valet. She had done the same with her freelander 2,and they wanted to charge her £10k i kid you not. Said she needed tank,pump,lines,injectors,rail,and other bits and bobs,labour. I'd tell him to let you do it.
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Garages will tend to think you're stupid if you put petrol in a diesel, so they think you'll pay anything.
OK, I've done it, so I'm stupid. But all the nice man in Switzerland charged me for was recovery off the top of the mountain, a bit of labour AND disposal of the contaminated fuel, which is fair enough. Shouldn't charge you for anything else, especially if it hasn't run on petrol for very long. My Freelander had done about 20 miles, including climbing an Alpine pass.
I suppose it's fair to say that a Main Stealer is liable for the repair, so some will do everything conceivable "just in case". I doubt if you even need to run CharlesY's routine - just drain and refill.
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Well yesterday morning they told him that it was going to cost £6700 instead of the £2000 going to change every thing.up shot of it all after a heated phone call with them it cost 800 pounds collected it tonight.What a pi## taking load of c##ts.
He gave them EIGHT HUNDRED POUNDS to drain and fill the tank?
I bet they added £100 for the new fuel and that they put the mix into their own cars.
He was ROBBED.
Main STEALERS.
CharlesY
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If he was that worried he'd have been better off getting the tank drained (around £100-£200) and then taking out a years warranty on the vehicle for around £250-£300.
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THE wife filled her 306d with petrol by mistake sez it dont run right dave,ok i have a look cant find owt,whatyer bin doing sez i,nothing nothing at all i just filled up at the end pump at the bp across the road ,ok sez i lookin out the backbedroom windy show me ,thought as much unleaded,lad and i took fuel pipe ,sucked petrol out,took it to garage fiil with diesel,no bother,weused the petrol for parts washing,and kept putting a couple of gall in the old landy,,,,,it just eat it,never missed a beat,,,,,,i could see em getting £800 of me like feck,,,you couldnt get a threpenny bit of me wiv a ring spanner ffs,,,,,,,,,,dave
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and a bit of petrol in with the diesel helps with the MOT aswell
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Wife filled her Freelander from empty with petrol, drove till the car stopped (about 6miles).
Towed home, I took the feed pipe from the filler off at the tank drained over 60litres of petrol, poured in into our boat tank. Refilled the Freelander with diesel and never had any problems for the past 5 years.
Boat went like a dream too.
Sure I read somewhere that if you do take your vehicle to a garage for the repair its logged somewhere and can void your warranty for any fuel problems down the 'line' - or was I just dreaming.
Towed home, I took the feed pipe from the filler off at the tank drained over 60litres of petrol, poured in into our boat tank. Refilled the Freelander with diesel and never had any problems for the past 5 years.
Boat went like a dream too.
Sure I read somewhere that if you do take your vehicle to a garage for the repair its logged somewhere and can void your warranty for any fuel problems down the 'line' - or was I just dreaming.
ratty
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If you take yer car to the main dealers it may be logged but not if you take it to an independent garage. We are forever doing drain downs on preety new cars. I think the newest car I've done had about 1500 miles on it.:doh:
