Got about 60litres of it here of you want it. Be oh on Chainsaws etc i guess...

I was a little worse for wear once and filled my 300TDi with 60 lts of unleaded. Was half way home (3.5 miles driven) before the engine note changed and I realised the hose I used was green not black. Drove the rest of the way home without problem. Drained the unleaded and put it my MG. That ran fine. 20 litres of diesel in the Landy and it started and ran to the petrol station to refill with the correct stuff....

No problems since then.

Nice one!.
Local tree surgeon has had this lot, keep the saws going for a while. TD5 going fine now! Happy days.

CharlesY of this forum was on a trip with another friend of ours and the friend brimmed his TD5 Disco with ULD. Charles was a few miles up the road and it started acting funny, he suspected a fuelling issue, he asked my friend to check the fuel receipt to which he said "What does ULD mean?". So he kept driving up the motorway to the first services, by this time the engine was not enjoying the petrol - gassing in the head and all sorts - into the petrol station and bought a gallon of motor oil - tipped that in and drove on giving it a bit of a slosh about - back onto the motorway, every petrol station they passed they put in some diesel. 500 miles later the engine was going a lot better and within a week or two and most of the fuel being diluted all was well - it has been every since and this was many years and miles ago.

You can get away with it like that on older diesel engines but the TD5 fuel injector system is a lot more sensitive to miss fueling.

Scooby22 said:

You can get away with it like that on older diesel engines but the TD5 fuel injector system is a lot more sensitive to miss fueling.

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Not quite with the TD5, sensitive yes but a TD5 it is not likely to come to major harm, an older diesel injection pump will spit the dummy on too much petrol. The petrol will gas in the hot head which is an issue and can cause the engine to die as it cannot inject. I would be more concerned about my 300tdi on a lot of petrol as it wouldn't get lubed by diesel - having said that I did once run about 150 litres of petrol contaminated with oil through it. I added more oil until it had a viscosity of that closer to diesel and went for it - worked fine and that was 10,000miles ago - I would not make a habit of it and I did take precautions.

The pump in the TD5 will pump petrol, it is not a high pressure pump (although it has the HP side it is not that high as HP goes), so it can handle a good dose of petrol, any diesel or the added oil put in after a misfuel will help with lubricity, the FPR, gallery etc, will not come to any harm, the injectors need lubricated but as long as it is not almost all petrol there is going to be enough lubricity for a one off, again why you should throw in oil. Not a good idea to run a diesel on petrol, end of, but it is not all doom and gloom.

Mis-fueling a diesel should not be an issue, lots of people just cock it up and drive on the petrol too long without getting lube in there and damage HP pumps and things but I have seen it done on plenty of friends and neighbours cars and usually we get a gallon of oil tossed in and all is well.

I love it when mis-fueling specialists and garages make all these ridiculous claims and charge fortunes for the system to be practically rebuilt and talk about replacing fuel lines and pumps and all this stuff and that is often before the key was even turned!