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Petrol 08 Golf filled with diesel and driven

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  • 02-01-2009 4:47pm
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    Donal94
    Registered Users Posts: 223 ✭✭


    Anyone have any ideas regarding where to take a petrol 08 Golf filled with diesel and driven until it died! VW garage is quoting €600-€1000. Seems a bit pricey. I think the cat has to be done


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    L1011
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    You're looking at a new fuel filter and possibly a new cat depending how much damage has been done to it. May be other work required - injectors possibly?

    How on earth did it get filled with diesel though? Diesel fillers are too high bore to fit in petrol filler mouths these days...


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    Donal94
    Registered Users Posts: 223 ✭✭Donal94


    Not sure to be honest sister in law did it. Do you reckon an independant garage is the best way to go?


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    crosstownk
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    MYOB wrote: »

    How on earth did it get filled with diesel though? Diesel fillers are too high bore to fit in petrol filler mouths these days...

    Yeah, was wondering that myself for exactly the same reason. It's been a long time since I've come across diesel in petrol car - the reverse is relatively common though.
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    Donal94
    Registered Users Posts: 223 ✭✭Donal94


    I must ask her where she got it


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    L1011
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    I'd have to wonder if there was an almighty cockup in the filling station...


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    Donal94
    Registered Users Posts: 223 ✭✭Donal94


    Apparently it was Apple Green in Celbridge and she checked it deffinately came from a diesel pump


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    V22
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭V22


    http://www.adverts.ie/showproduct.php?product=83464&cat=500


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    thetyreman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 451 ✭✭thetyreman


    Let us know how this hapened,the nozell shouldnt fit in to the petrol filler,

    Was it maybe Kerosine/parafin she put in it.

    Its amazeing what the superior species (women)can do when the set there mind to it....


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    Donal94
    Registered Users Posts: 223 ✭✭Donal94


    i'll be sure to let you know, seems like a bit of an odd one alright


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    TGi666
    Registered Users Posts: 451 ✭✭TGi666


    what engine is the golf ? if its a gt your screwed


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    samsemtex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 935 ✭✭✭samsemtex


    MYOB wrote: »
    You're looking at a new fuel filter and possibly a new cat depending how much damage has been done to it. May be other work required - injectors possibly?

    How on earth did it get filled with diesel though? Diesel fillers are too high bore to fit in petrol filler mouths these days...

    Does that not strike anyone else as a strange way of doing things? Considering a diesel car filled with petrol is far more damaging than the other way around, wouldnt you think they would make it so that a petrol nozzle cannot fit in a diesel car rather than the other way around. Makes no sense.


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    L1011
    Registered Users Posts: 68,998 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Old diesels barely missed a beat if you accidentally slopped a few litres of petrol in them. Of course, new ones are far more badly damaged by the affair...


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    #14
    Donal94
    Registered Users Posts: 223 ✭✭Donal94


    Its the 1.6l


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    alexmcred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,487 ✭✭✭alexmcred


    If it's 08 she may be better off going to the dealer as it still has a year or more warranty left on it. At least if it is fixed by them they shouldn't be able to come back and say warranty is void.


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    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,705 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    V22 wrote: »
    http://www.adverts.ie/showproduct.php?product=83464&cat=500
    :P


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