Peugeot - please help!! I put unleaded in diesel! Need advice

It'll be OK. It happens a lot nowadays.

Steve

o dear, scrap value maybe.

bugbear ( snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Is it an HDi? Or is it the older-style 2.1 or 1.9?

If it's a common-rail diesel, the repairs, if done as recommended by the manufacturer, would easily exceed the value of the car. In that case you might as well keep driving it and hope nothing bad happens.

Older diesels, especially the IDI kind with low injection pressures, can tolerate quite a lot of petrol in the mix.

Not if it's hdi engine. DaveK.

Why do so many people do this? READ THE FILLER CAP! Christ on a bike, it's pretty bloody obvious it's a diesel what with the clattering noise and the turbo lag, why not check before you fill it? Anyway, if it's an HDi then it's screwed as the petrol acts as a solvent and causes the high pressure pump to overheat as unfortunately petrol does not lubricate at all like diesel. New pump? £1000. Hope you got a good credit limit or a forgiving aunt :)

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I was just thinking that, I get bored reading the weekly /petrol in diesel/ posts here !

( touch wood I never make that mistake !)

Let's give them a break. It's easy to criticise, but it's a thing which is very easily done nowadays, with multiple pumps, and many people driving both petrol and diesel vehicles. A moment's inattention, or as in the case of one I did recently, someone doing an elderly neighbour a favour, and there you go.

Steve

Or if someone has mixed up the nozzles on the pumps as I've been tempted to do on a couple of occasions.

shazzbat ( snipped-for-privacy@spamlessness.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

I have to admit - I had a lift in a newish Merc E-class the other day, probably in it for half an hour, there and back.

It was only when I walked round the back of it to cross the road on returning that I saw the badge and noticed it was an E270CDi. You could not tell it was a diseasel from inside. Impressed, I was.

But isn't the colour a giveaway?

Yes, for those who observe what they're doing. If you just grabbed the nozzle in the diesel slot however....

A neighbour has a new 535d BMW auto which I've driven. Impressed isn't the word. If I'd have been told a few years ago that a diesel could leave just about everything you're likely to come across going backwards, *and* not waken the dead when starting or idling I'd have laughed...

If you think the old i5 270CDi engine is good, try the new V6 320. Very quiet even from cold (270 cold is definitely a diesel!)

Indeed - the 535d has to be one of the best cars in the world just now - power, space, refinement and economy in good balance. I like it better than the E class (although the E's gearbox seems nicer and the control layout is a bit more conventional).

On the smaller ones though the choice between C320 and BMW330 diesels is harder - I think I'd go mercedes on that one, though oddly I'd rather have a BMW 320 than a C220...

I tend to look at the nozzle as opposed to the slot TBH.

Tim S Kemp ( snipped-for-privacy@timkemp.karoo.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Actually, it may have been a 320. I just noticed "CDi" - I'd thought it sounded like a v6, and extrapolated from there.

The OP said "spluttering". If you drain the fuel system, up to and including the injector pump, and put fresh diesel, is trying to see if it then runs well going to do further damage?