By not operating the vehicle you are avoiding the possibility of sucking up diesel into the fuel line. If you attempt to drive the vehicle with diesel in the engine, your engine could seize and may require extensive repairs as a result. Also, this requires immediate attention. Leaving diesel fuel to sit for too long can cause further damage. Call a garage.
Contact a local garage you trust and explain the situation. They will most likely recommend draining your gas tank. Make arrangements with the garage so that when the tow truck arrives, the tow truck can directly deliver the vehicle to the garage.
Call a tow truck. As soon as you hang up with the garage, reach out to a tow truck company to have your vehicle towed to the garage. This is the beginning of what will be a regular feature on this internet website: A column in which I investigate your car problems, mostly to determine just how screwed or not screwed you might be.
First up! A reader whose cousin put diesel into a Toyota Camry, and drove on it for a few miles before, inevitably, it came to a stop. This may not be in your wheelhouse pun not intended , but how much damage could putting diesel in an gas engine do?
My cousin accidentally put diesel in his Camry and drove on it for a couple of miles until the car came to a stop. He took it to a mechanic, which was recommended to him by his boss, to get the fuel system flushed. Now the mechanic is saying the whole engine is trashed and it is better to get a new one. So therein lies my question, can an engine be ruined by accidentally putting diesel in it?
Show the supply chain who's boss Get a head start on your holiday shopping at Amazon, Target, Best Buy, and more. First, we probably need a quick briefing on the difference between diesel and gasoline.
I mean, if you had an empty gallon tank, and you caught your mistake when you'd put in only a gallon, you might be all right if you filled the rest of the tank with diesel. But if it's more than that, you could create serious problems. Aside from being the fuel, diesel also is a lubricant. So running a diesel engine on gasoline starves the fuel-injector pump of lubrication.
And because of their different combustion properties, the gasoline detonates too early in a high-compression diesel engine and causes all kinds of damaging knocking and misfiring. So not only would you have to drain the tank, in that case, but you might need to replace other parts as well. So I think we need to launch a new public-service campaign to reduce distractions while refueling, Carolina: "Don't Text and Pump.
Get the Car Talk Newsletter. Dear Car Talk: Will a car be damaged if a person mistakenly puts diesel into a gasoline car's gas tank? I'm not making you feel better yet, am I, Carolina? Gasoline engines cannot combust diesel fuel, so the car would stop running.
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