never thought it could happen to me!but i was in a hurry with a lot on my mind, didnt realise until warning lights came on .got it recovered to LR they came up with around £4000 to change fuel pump,injectors fuel lines,and a few other bits.its not covered by my insurance so i guess ill just have to swallow this one unless anyones got any ideas

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Bad luck mate. I'm not sure but maybe do a search, I think someone did this a while ago and it was covered by insurance.

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Bad luck mate. I'm not sure but maybe do a search, I think someone did this a while ago and it was covered by insurance.

The clue was in his statement "its not covered by my insurance "

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This happened to a friend of mine last month. He put £50 worth of petrol in a diesel Kia Ceed and drove down the road until the car stopped. The AA recovered the vehicle to his address and told him about a bloke that has made a business out of putting right the wrong of petrol contamination. It cost him about £150 for this bloke to call out and drain the deisel and the necassary done so the car would not of known it had happened. To this day the car is running without any problems and best of all the dealer is completely unaware of the incident and since had all warranty work undertaken without charge.

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never thought it could happen to me!but i was in a hurry with a lot on my mind, didnt realise until warning lights came on .got it recovered to LR they came up with around £4000 to change fuel pump,injectors fuel lines,and a few other bits.its not covered by my insurance so i guess ill just have to swallow this one unless anyones got any ideas

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He put £50 worth of petrol in a diesel Kia Ceed

That double the value of that car then!

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Adding petrol to a diesel engined Kia makes it burn better in the scrap dealers

At that cost would flush and fill with diesel and give it a go, nothing to lose surely, if something packs up after so be it, but to replace everything just in case is as you have found out expensive.

Was the car dead empty when filled with petrol or not?

£4k to fix That seems a bit steep. I was a diesel fitter when I first left school and we used to put a gallon of petrol in with the diesel to stop it freezing up in winter (it used to be cold in winter before global warming!). This never did the vehicles any harm and even though modern cars are more electrically sensitive it's still the same fuel systems.

I did this on an audi a4 TDI, filled it to the brim with petrol. Just drained it off and refilled with diesel. I even used (and am still using 2 years later) the 'dirty' fuel in my lawn mower. Smokes a bit on start up but fine once running.

I don't understand why the fuel pump would need to be replaced? Is this, just in case it breaks at some stage because it's had petrol in??? Tosh.

If it were me i'd have drained and refilled to see what happened.

Incidentally, this is much worse to do the other way round (diesel into a petrol). the cats i believe (so to speak).

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will_wonka wrote:

The clue was in his statement "its not covered by my insurance "

Yes I know that but insurance is cover for any accident so should be covered might be worth looking at it again. You smart arsed

It seems stupid that the insurance company doesn't cover mis fueling, you can accidentally drive into a wall and have £4k of damage, but when you accidentally put the wrong fuel in your car and damage it they say your not covered.

Either way its accidental damage which you should be covered for

Threaten them with taking them to the FSA over it been a unfair claim response, worst case they have to pay out to fight the claim costing them man hours and money to do so (the Insurance company I worked for said it cost them £500 just to respond to a FSA complaint without even fighting the claim)

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