Re: PLEASE ADVISE.

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:59:01 +0100, "The Todal" <deadmailbox@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>
>"Flop" <Flop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:431495a0$0$76678$ed2619ec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> As an interesting aside, the DT advises that if you do put petrol into a
>> diesel car - do nothing - dont even get into the car. This would add
>> another ukp5 000 to the repair bill.
>
>In Coronation Street, the effect of putting petrol in a diesel car is that
>huge clouds of smoke come out of the bonnet and the vehicle is said to be a
>write-off (on the basis that it was a second hand car bought for 500
>pounds). I did wonder if that was accurate. Maybe it is, if the DT are
>right.
>

Well I've done it. :-(

At the first filling station after departing for a motoring holiday
around Hungary, Austria and Poland. The station had changed the colour
on the pistol grip nozzles on the pumps. :-(

Fortunately we had in the car a schoolfriend of my daughter, and her
father was a diesel mechanic. We ran the car a few hundred yards round
to her place. He insisted the tank was drained, which he did, and
refilled with Diesel, and we continued on without further difficulty.

DG

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