--- title: Next Steps: Petrol in a Diesel Car Broadway canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/petrol-in-diesel/broadway-somerset/ location: Broadway county: Somerset latitude: 50.934260 longitude: -2.968550 service: Petrol in a Diesel Car updated: 2026-10-18 --- # Petrol in a Diesel Car in Broadway: What Happens Now Pause, then keep your motor off — not on, and not for a second to move it. Cleared and rinsed, just where it is: that is usually all an unrun diesel with petrol in it needs. Whether it stays that simple depends on the minutes to come more than on everything else. From now on, step by step, wherever you are in Broadway: ## Minute one: petrol in a diesel, motor off Before anything else, these — in this order. - The keys out of the ignition. Turning your ignition on can be enough to prime the fuel system, while priming pulls petrol out of your tank toward the components it damages. Keep the car off altogether. - Topping up with diesel seems like it dilutes the issue. It does not: nothing gets out, and the tank simply carries more of the same. - Make the vehicle simple to see before anything else — hazards on — if there's moving traffic anywhere close to you. - The staff will generally help you push it away from the pump. Let them, then move it by hand — not on the engine, even for a few yards. - The first question you will be asked is which fuel you put in and about how much — and the till receipt says both. Hold on to it. On the M5, under 10 miles from Broadway, the next junction is the place to come off; anywhere, the first sensible place to stop. Don't push on to the services. Then go back to stage one. ## Every Broadway fuel drain starts here: has your engine run? What happens next rests on one answer, and only one. If your engine has not run at all: - Nowhere but your tank: that's where the petrol yet is. - The job is a drain and a flush, usually done where the car stands. - This, here, is the best place to be in, and the reason stage one counts. If your engine has run, even briefly: - Out of that tank, through the fuel filter, into the fuel lines: that is how far the petrol has got. - On a bigger run it has got to the high-pressure fuel pump and your injectors. - The further it went, the bigger the job — your lines, the fuel filter, and sometimes more besides. Diesel keeps the high-pressure pump and the fuel injectors oiled as it runs through them. Petrol gives them nothing, and that is why the line is drawn there. In your tank, sitting still, petrol does no harm. The components that move it are wearing the moment petrol is being pumped. ## What to have prepared when you call about petrol in a diesel from Broadway A van that circles versus a technician that finds you: a little preparation is what separates them. - The best start is a postcode — one starting TA19 9 — for where you have stopped. - Name the road — Goose Lane or wherever you have pulled up — or the car park. - Car parks are located most easily by what they serve: tell us the one outside Tesco, and it is simple. - Make and model of your car, and the fact it is a diesel. - Which got in matters: AdBlue is a separate job from petrol, and Broadway has a page for it. So tell us. - Roughly how much — in litres from the receipt, or by how long the nozzle was in. - The miles it did, and how heavily, if it ran at all. - Whose car it is. Some hire or company contracts want the owner to authorise this work, and that is easier settled before our technicians arrive than after. Then call 0333 366 0103. If it can wait — the car is at home with going nowhere — works as well. ## The wait for a Broadway fuel drain, and what to do in it In the wait, the harm comes from well-meant help — so these count. - Where the car has stopped settles where you wait. Exposed: away from it, clear of the traffic. Sensible: with it. Either way, safety ahead of the car. - A kind passer-by does not start it. Nor does anyone checking it still does the trick, or rolling it a couple of yards. - None of that takes the petrol back out — not two-stroke oil, not injector cleaner, not anything from the boot. So no additives. - A DIY drain misses the fuel already gone beyond the tank, and siphoning petrol by the road is hazardous too. - Leave the ignition off — your windows and your radio included. ## Step by step: the fuel drain when our van arrives - Three queries. What went in, how much, and if it has run. The replies decide this job, which is why our price comes after them but not before. - Your tank is drained. The contaminated blend comes out of the tank. - Petrol that has moved beyond the tank travels in the fuel lines once it ran, and the lines are purged to clear it. - Then the fuel filter: replaced where there's a usable one, cleared where there is not. - Priming comes after clean diesel is in. - The start. With fresh diesel in and the system primed, it is fired up and checked to be sure it runs correctly. Until it runs on clean diesel, we stay with it. If it has been spotted soon, lasting damage is very uncommon, and your car goes back to normal use right away. ## Once the fuel drain is done: driving in Broadway once more - Nothing unusual is needed after a start with clean diesel — normal driving is all. - Give the first miles your attention. Smoke showing, a warning light coming on, the idle going lumpy or the throttle hesitating: pull over and call us back. - The documents answers the question a rental company, fleet manager or insurer may ask: what work was carried out. Keep it. - Check the label on the petrol pump next time, not the colour of its handle. ## About Broadway itself Broadway is a small village in Somerset, situated on the riverside at an elevation of 63 metres. Broadway sits near the villages of Broadway Pound, Horton, and Puddlebridge, and is located approximately 23.5 miles from the city of Wells. Broadway has a population of around 618 people and is characterised by predominantly detached housing. Broadway is also relatively distant from London, at 129.1 miles away. ## Broadway and nearby: fuel drains across the area Petrol in diesel call-outs in Broadway and in Broadway Pound, Horton or Puddlebridge all reach the same vans, which cover most of Somerset as well. If you are close to a border or somewhere hard to explain, ring and ask and not assuming. ## Petrol in a diesel anywhere in Somerset? Off, then ring Motor off. Keys out. Receipt in your pocket. That's the whole of step one, and Petrol in Diesel carries on from there — at the kerbside, on the forecourt or on your driveway.