The Next Steps, in Order: Petrol in a Diesel Car in Mountsorrel
Whatever you do, don't switch the motor on, even briefly, to move it. Pause; leave it off. Drained then cleaned, just where it sits: that's usually all an unrun diesel with petrol in it takes. Whether it stays that simple depends on the minutes to come more than on anything else. From here on, step by step, wherever you are in Mountsorrel:
Petrol in a diesel? What to do in minute one
In this sequence, and before everything else:
- Keys out of your ignition. Turning the ignition on can be enough to prime your fuel system, while priming draws petrol out of your tank towards the parts it damages. Keep the vehicle off altogether.
- Topping up with diesel sounds like it thins the issue. It doesn't: nothing comes out, and your tank simply carries more of the same.
- Get the vehicle easy to see before anything else — hazard lights on — if there is moving traffic anywhere near you.
- By hand, never on the motor: that is how it leaves the petrol pump. Get the forecourt staff to help you push, however short the mileage.
- Hold on to the till receipt: the fuel and the rough amount are written on it, and they're what we ask about first.
If you were still driving when you realised, stop somewhere sensible instead of pushing on for the services — on the M1, under 10 miles from Mountsorrel, that means the next junction. Stage one comes next.
The fork in each Mountsorrel fuel drain: has it run yet?
One answer is what everything after this stage depends on.
Not run, not even once:
- Nowhere but that tank: that is where the petrol yet is.
- Where the car stands is normally where the work is done: a drain, then a flush.
- No place is better, and it's why the first stage counts so much.
If it's been started, even for a second:
- From that tank, through the filter, into your lines: that's how far that petrol has got.
- On a longer run it has reached your high-pressure pump as well as the fuel injectors.
- Flushing your lines, your filter seen to, and sometimes more: the job grows as the mileage does.
Diesel keeps the high-pressure pump and your injectors protected as it goes through them. Petrol offers them nothing, and that's why the line is drawn there. A tank of petrol, left alone, hurts nothing. The parts that move it are wearing the moment petrol is being pumped.
Calling about petrol in a diesel from Mountsorrel: what to have prepared
Whether the technician circles or finds you depends on a little preparation.
- The best place to start is a postcode — one beginning LE12 7 — for where you have stopped.
- Wherever you have pulled up, the road's name is useful — whether that's The Green or somewhere else — and so does the name of a car park.
- Or the nearest landmark. A car park is quicker to find by what it serves, like the one at The Co-operative Food.
- The vehicle. Make, model, plus that it is a diesel.
- Say which went in — petrol or AdBlue — since AdBlue is a different job, with a page of its own for Mountsorrel.
- Roughly how much — in litres from your receipt, or by how long the nozzle was in.
- If it's run, how far and how hard — as well as whether it's run at all.
- Whose vehicle it is. Some hire and company contracts want the owner to authorise this work, and that's easier settled before we get there than after.
Phone 0333 366 0103 then. Email is fine too if it can wait, with the vehicle left at home, going nowhere.
Mountsorrel fuel drain on its way? Whilst you wait
The wait is where kindly meant help does the harm. Stick to these.
- Safety before the car. If it has stopped somewhere exposed, get yourself clear of the traffic and wait away from it. If it's safe where it stands, stay with it.
- No one starts it. Not a passer-by being helpful, not to check it is all right, not to roll the vehicle a few yards.
- No additives. Two-stroke oil, injector cleaner, something from the boot — none of that gets that petrol back out.
- No DIY draining. Siphoning petrol into a can by the roadside is hazardous, and it leaves the fuel that has already gone beyond the tank.
- Even your radio or the windows are not worth switching your ignition on for.
The fuel drain, step by step, after our van gets there
- Our quote comes after three queries, not before them — what was put in, how much, and if it has run — because the answers decide the job.
- Emptying it's how that mixture gets taken from that tank.
- Petrol that has moved beyond the tank sits in the fuel lines once it ran, and the fuel lines are cleaned to shift it.
- Cleaned, or changed if the vehicle has a serviceable one: the fuel filter is seen to next.
- Fresh diesel goes in, then the system is primed.
- The start. With fresh diesel in and the system primed, it's started and checked to make sure it runs properly.
Our engineers remain until it is running on clean diesel. Your car returns to normal use right away, and permanent damage is very rare when it has been caught soon.
Back on the road in Mountsorrel after your fuel drain
- Started on fresh diesel, it asks nothing unusual of you. Just drive normally.
- Pull over and call us back if anything seems wrong early on — a light on the dash, smoke from the exhaust, an idle that runs rough, or a throttle with a dead spot.
- The work may come up later with a hire firm, an insurer or a fleet manager. Hold on to the paperwork.
- Next time, trust the petrol pump's label instead of the colour of its handle.
About Mountsorrel, for a moment
Mountsorrel is a village in Leicestershire, situated on the River Soar, with a mix of semi-detached housing and other residential properties. Mountsorrel sits at an elevation of 54 metres, close to the nearby villages of Rothley and Sileby. Mountsorrel is located near Rothley Plain, approximately 6.5 miles from Leicester, and is part of the wider East Midlands region. Mountsorrel has a population of around 2479 residents.
Fuel drains across Mountsorrel and nearby
Most of Leicestershire has the same vans as Mountsorrel for petrol in diesel calls, Rothley, Sileby and Rothley Plain included. Guessing does not help close to a border or somewhere hard to describe; a quick ring and a query does.
Petrol in a diesel in Leicestershire? Leave it off and ring
Stage one is all of that: engine off, keys out, receipt in your pocket. From there Petrol in Diesel carries on, on the forecourt, at the kerbside or on your drive.