Emptying/flushing fuel tank?!

[AndyW]

Your local council should be able to tell you what to do with it, unless someone wants it for bonfire night

Tried phoning them earlier, no one there....forgot it's POETS day!

I know a couple of guys in the motor trade so I expect they'll know what to do with it......think I'll steer clear of putting it in the car.

 

[Owen Snell]

As I said in my disclaimer, I don't advise anyone to do this in a car they like. I stated 5% based on a "safe-ish" estimate given the advice I received. This was that for 10 litres of unleaded in an empty tank, filling up with a further 70 litres (approx, please don't tell me my tank will only hold 78 litres) of diesel would be ok. It was ok, and I would use diesel with a small amount of petrol in my volkwagon again if I had too.

I did say that I didn't really like this car much, didn't I

Also, the petrol should float on top of the diesel (shouldn't it?) and will evaporate off in time, which is why I kept the tank topped up for a while after it happened. Therefore the chance of any appreciable amount of petrol going through the pump or injectors should be slim.

I suppose it's not your car, so why worry, although I would guess it would have mixed and gone through. My wife put 5 litres into my diesel Seat and it cost £60 to get the tank drained at our local garage - seemed like good insurance against a £1,000 plus bill.

 

[conncarr]

I suppose it's not your car, so why worry, although I would guess it would have mixed and gone through. My wife put 5 litres into my diesel Seat and it cost £60 to get the tank drained at our local garage - seemed like good insurance against a £1,000 plus bill.

I can understand you erring on the safe side if you have had problems previously, but to be honest I think if the fuel systems are that sensitive we would be breaking down all the time , what with bad fuel, water in fuel, additives etc., etc.

The fact that it's not my car doesn't really come into it. I still treat it as my own (for better or worse).

The person who told me it would be ok was from the volkswagon fleet assistance company, so I am not quite as feckless as I might have made out.

Sorry if this has raised strong feelings - that wasn't the intention.

Maybe we should let it go now.