Pression de Gonflage
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P38A , 1998, 4.0, LPG + PETROL.
Good afternoon, good people.
One often reads of folk who have put diesel in the petrol tank and vice versa and I suspect that most of us have thought, I’d never do anything so daft. Ho hum.
No, I have NOT put diesel in my tank, but I wonder if I what have done is almost as bad.
Most of the time I use LPG. However, this requires a small quantity of petrol to start the engine. It then switches over to LPG after a few minutes. So I only need to fill the petrol tank every month or two. For various reasons I have not been able to get to my nearest LPG shop so have topped up with petrol. In my ignorance I thought, ok E10 is simply a slightly better fuel and only a few pence different in price, and of course I don't want to put the cheap stuff in my wondrous V8 do I ?.
I have only just been reading in the UK press of the popularity (?) of E10 petrol, which I understand is a mixture of proper petrol and gin. Unfortunately, here in France where most of my friends and neighbours run on diesel, it has not had the same coverage or even discussion.
Now comes the problem. When I start up, the engine immediately runs up to almost 2000rpm, instead of its normal 682.5rpm. In the old days, this would have been immediately diagnosed as a sticky throttle cable, and easily fixed. Today it’s not so easy. The curious part is that the engine still settles down to its normal idle at about the time when it normally switches over to gas. Is this E10 stuff the cause of the problem and have I done irreparable damage, or is this just a coincidence ?
A couple of days ago with petrol getting low I topped up with the “old” stuff, in the hope that with the now small percentage in the mix things would not be so serious. However, the start-up high revs are still there.
Tell me the worst…someone.....er...please.
Good afternoon, good people.
One often reads of folk who have put diesel in the petrol tank and vice versa and I suspect that most of us have thought, I’d never do anything so daft. Ho hum.
No, I have NOT put diesel in my tank, but I wonder if I what have done is almost as bad.
Most of the time I use LPG. However, this requires a small quantity of petrol to start the engine. It then switches over to LPG after a few minutes. So I only need to fill the petrol tank every month or two. For various reasons I have not been able to get to my nearest LPG shop so have topped up with petrol. In my ignorance I thought, ok E10 is simply a slightly better fuel and only a few pence different in price, and of course I don't want to put the cheap stuff in my wondrous V8 do I ?.
I have only just been reading in the UK press of the popularity (?) of E10 petrol, which I understand is a mixture of proper petrol and gin. Unfortunately, here in France where most of my friends and neighbours run on diesel, it has not had the same coverage or even discussion.
Now comes the problem. When I start up, the engine immediately runs up to almost 2000rpm, instead of its normal 682.5rpm. In the old days, this would have been immediately diagnosed as a sticky throttle cable, and easily fixed. Today it’s not so easy. The curious part is that the engine still settles down to its normal idle at about the time when it normally switches over to gas. Is this E10 stuff the cause of the problem and have I done irreparable damage, or is this just a coincidence ?
A couple of days ago with petrol getting low I topped up with the “old” stuff, in the hope that with the now small percentage in the mix things would not be so serious. However, the start-up high revs are still there.
Tell me the worst…someone.....er...please.
