How @**@ing stupid can I be - Diesel

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Ok, let me have the worse case scenario - half asleep, filled-up with diesel, within a couple of miles coughing / spluttering (still hadn't realised what I had done) continued (slowly) for the 20 odd miles home.
Stupidity realised this morning and booked into BMW tomorrow.
Aside from cost of cleaning it out - any longer term damage likely to be caused?
Thanks
 
Not likely

To have caused any long term damage in my uneducated opinion. Petrol into a diesel is a bit more of a problem potentially.

Fingers crossed for you.
 
Can't disagree about the stupidity!

NickD said:
Ok, let me have the worse case scenario - half asleep, filled-up with diesel, within a couple of miles coughing / spluttering (still hadn't realised what I had done) continued (slowly) for the 20 odd miles home.
Stupidity realised this morning and booked into BMW tomorrow.
Aside from cost of cleaning it out - any longer term damage likely to be caused?
Thanks
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Not for filling it with diesel, everyone makes an occasional mistake.
Since it stuttered home, there is a reasonable amopunt of petrol in the mix.

No: The stupidity is giving a dealer money to sort out a non existant problem.

Siphon tank, fill with fresh petrol (98 octane) and away you go. Might smoke a little for a few mins, but that's it.
Put the drained fuel in a diesel car and then top up diesel tank with more fuel. Cost nil.
Myke
 
Thanks all for the responses. I've a horrible feeling Myke R could be right - possibly one error after another.
Plugs are v oily so assume all 4 will need to be changed. Any other parts that should be examined / changed before running through with the 98 Oct'?
Thanks again
 
Myke Rocks said:
Not for filling it with diesel, everyone makes an occasional mistake.
Since it stuttered home, there is a reasonable amount of petrol in the mix.

No: The stupidity is giving a dealer money to sort out a non existent problem.

Siphon tank, fill with fresh petrol (98 octane) and away you go. Might smoke a little for a few mins, but that's it.
Put the drained fuel in a diesel car and then top up diesel tank with more fuel. Cost nil.
Myke
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Have a friend who made the same mistake with his R1200GS and solved it by following Myke's method. Did not cause any problems with the bike whatsoever.
Alan R
 
The plugs can't be too bad because the bike runs.

Drain the tank, fill with posh petrol and ride it (Shell if you can). The plugs will soon clean themselves. If its not right after 10 miles of hard riding change the plugs. But the chances are they will be fine.

Put the drained diesel mixture into a diesel car with 5% to 10% vege oil to make sure its all nicely lubed & it will be fine.
 
Once it gets in the dealer they will tell you it needs lots and if you don't agree your warranty will be feck'ed... Do it yourself

I had this in reverse with my Jeep when I put petrol in - feckers wanted to change everything, I told them just drain it and they would only do that if I signed to the effect that this would effect my warranty.

Tha was 120,000 miles ago...

The dealer went bust shortly afterwards.... Feck em, it still makes me so angry that Ill post about it in threads that remind me about the incident
 
I agree, do it yourself, don't go to the dealers. Personally I would clean the plugs up now (old toothbrush and petrol or white spirit) before running it again but its up to you.:thumb
 
And maybe use a fuel additive like REDEX to clean your fuel injectors and remove combustion deposits?
 
Drain the tank, fill with petrol & ride the thing.
It'll be fine.

I doubt you'll need any cleaning additives, petrol is a solvent & burns cleanly, the injectors are in the inlet tract so won't have 'deposits' on them, plugs should clean themselves with a decent run :thumbup:

FFS, don't take it to the dealer :eek:
 
I once put a bottle of injector cleaner in my 1150 and left it sitting for a week. Gummed up the valves , plugs etc and made it run like a pig.
My BMW mechanic mate told me to ride it hard and get the engine really hot to burn it off.
Couple of hard runs and it was perfect.
Don't go to the dealer. Do it yourself.
K
 
Phil-H said:
Drain the tank, fill with petrol & ride the thing.
It'll be fine.

I doubt you'll need any cleaning additives, petrol is a solvent & burns cleanly, the injectors are in the inlet tract so won't have 'deposits' on them, plugs should clean themselves with a decent run :thumbup:

FFS, don't take it to the dealer :eek:
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+1 Chances are the dealer will start making all sorts of horrific noises about damage to catalytic converter, and finish up with a £2000 bill.........:comfort
 
As Above. Do it yourself

Had a Russian punter fill up his GS with diesel in Morocco . Tour Guide ( Female !) produced a siphon out of her panniers. Drained tank. Put in a bit more petrol , gave it a shake and drained that , then filled up with petrol and away we went . Bit smokey for a mile or so , then mo problem for the rest of the trip !
 
Smoke for a bit.

Ha, you are 'avin a laugh, Myke Rocks.

90 litres of prime 98 Ron it took to make my GSA stop. Like the Grand Fleet 'making smoke' it was. I even made a hotel vanish by revving the engine :D

No damage done and engine still going strong in the hands of ChasMill.


PS By adapting the FPC work around you can probably run the fuel pump and pump the contaminated fuel out. Siphoning (at least out of the 1200 GSA) made it tricky to get all the diesel out. The oil based diesel sinks to beneath the spirit based petrol anyway, so any residue left behind gets burn off first.... Oh and it coats the fuel filter, fuel pump and anything else between the filler cap and the spark plug.
 
Just think of it as the old Castrol Upper Cylinder Lubrication you used to get.
 
You put diesel in yer bike ???? :blast


What sort of a blinkin' idiot would do that .... :rolleyes:





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masterman21 said:
Had a Russian punter fill up his GS with diesel in Morocco . Tour Guide ( Female !) produced a siphon out of her panniers. Drained tank. Put in a bit more petrol , gave it a shake and drained that , then filled up with petrol and away we went . Bit smokey for a mile or so , then mo problem for the rest of the trip !
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That will be Hannah then.
 
Moi ???

Mine was very discreet and under the radar - yep - only during a time adjustment period in the Olympic torch relay .... :blast

Giles said:
A quick recap ..... :D

Quote:
Originally Posted by Robin
You kept that quiet.

You should have given me a call - I'd have put my "never go into Dover" rule to one side and come and video'd the piss taking.

Would've made the other Olympic photo I'm storing for blackmail purposes seem quite tame....




It was one of those moments when your heart misses a beat and the world stands still.

I stared at the fuel nozzle that I'd just put back in it's housing in disbelief. I still had my hands on it, and it was black. I was willing it, no, begging it to turn green but it stood firm with its menacing sneer. I slowly mutterd to myself 'you complete and utter cnut' and saw the next hour or two of my life flash before me in a few seconds.

Two of my colleagues were at the tills paying, as they came out I called them over 'blokes .... blokes ... I can't believe what I've just done .... I've filled my bike up with diesel....

The bastards promptly pissed themselves laughing and were absolutely no help what so ever!!. I had to suffer the indignation of calling up on the radio, announcing to the whole escort team that I was temporarily out of play because ... errrrr ...... well ...... errrr ...... ummmmm .... yes ... I'd .... errr ... put diesel in my bike.
I paid for the fuel cringing as the cashier girl cheerily confirmed (in her blissful ignorance) '15 litres of diesel love ?' praying that nobody in the queue behind would hear or cotton on.

Oh joy of joys, if there's a joke, pun, innuendo to be had, I suffered every single one of them! The bike was recovered (didn't start it obviously) and I jumped on a spare before the time adjustment stop was even over.

£40 bill at the bar in Manston barracks that night !

A few days later I went to workshops to pick the bike up. I was met with rapturous applause from all the mechanics and my bike stood alone in the corner - adorned with lit fairy lights, and covered in pictures of diesel / unleaded fuel pumps.

So far I've peeled off about nine 'unleaded' crescent stickers that I've found secreted onto the bike - and when I lift the single seat hump where the radio is stored (and I keep my water proofs) I'm greeted by the automated 'Warning diesel... Warning diesel' ... motion sensor voice as a permanent reminder. (until I find the fecking thing and rip its heart out ... ).

Ahhhhhhh happy days ....
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