--- title: What Now? Petrol in a Diesel Car Wick Hill canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/petrol-in-diesel/wick-hill-berkshire-rg40-3/ location: Wick Hill county: Berkshire latitude: 51.375600 longitude: -0.846720 service: Petrol in a Diesel Car updated: 2026-10-09 --- # Petrol in a Diesel Car in Wick Hill: What Happens Now Whatever you do, don't switch the motor on, even for a moment, to move the car. Stop; leave it off. The next few minutes decide it more than anything else: petrol in a diesel still unrun normally comes down to draining and cleaning, right there. Here's the order of things from here, anywhere you are in Wick Hill. ## Petrol in a diesel, engine off — the first minute In this sequence, and before anything else: - The keys out of the ignition. Switching your ignition on can be enough to prime your fuel system, while priming draws petrol out of your tank toward the components it harms. Keep the car off altogether. - No diesel on top. More fuel in takes away none of that petrol — it only makes you with extra of the same mixture. - Close to moving traffic? Then the hazards come on before everything else, so the vehicle is easy to spot. - However short the way, starting it to move it is the thing to avoid. At a forecourt, push the car clear of the petrol pump by hand instead, and ask the staff to lend a hand. - Keep the receipt. It shows which fuel went in and about how much, which is the first thing we'll ask. Still driving when you noticed? Come off the A329(M) at the next exit if that is where you are, under 5 miles from Wick Hill, and pull over somewhere safe and not pushing on to the services. Then start at stage one. ## Has it run yet? The fork in every Wick Hill fuel drain Everything after this stage depends on one answer. Engine never run at all? - The petrol is still inside your tank and nowhere else. - The work is a simple drain and a flush, usually done where the vehicle is. - Stage one counts for exactly this reason: it's the best spot to be in. If your motor has run, even briefly: - Some petrol has left that tank by now, passed through the fuel filter, and reached your lines. - A bigger run takes it all the way to your high-pressure pump and the injectors. - The job expands with the mileage — lines flushed, filter sorted, occasionally more. That line falls there because diesel protects the high-pressure fuel pump and your injectors on its way through them — and petrol doesn't. Nothing is harmed by petrol that's just waiting in a tank. As soon as it is pumped, petrol begins wearing down whatever moves it. ## Wick Hill, petrol in a diesel: have these prepared before you call Get ready a little, and the technician finds you instead of circling. - RG40 3 plus the rest of the postcode is the best way to begin telling us where you are. - Name the road — Wick Hill Lane or wherever you have stopped — or the car park. - What a car park serves is the easiest way to find it, and so mention the landmark — such as the one at Tesco. - Say what the vehicle is — make, model — and confirm it is diesel. - Which was put in counts: AdBlue is a separate job from petrol, plus Wick Hill has a page for it. So say. - The quantity: the receipt's litres, or else how long you held the nozzle in. - Whether it has run. Then if it has, how far and how hard. - Hire or company car? Some contracts want the owner's authorisation for the work, and sorting it before we get there is faster than afterwards. Then ring 0333 366 0103. If it can wait — the car is at home with going nowhere — does the trick as well. ## While you wait for a fuel drain in Wick Hill Help, however well meant, is what does the damage whilst you wait. So hold to these. - Stay with the vehicle if it's safe where it is — but if it has stopped somewhere exposed, you come first: away from the traffic, waiting apart from it. - Nobody — however kind — starts it, whether to see if it runs or to shift the vehicle a short way. - Something from the boot, oil meant for two-strokes or injector cleaner: no additive lifts the petrol. - A home-made drain leaves the fuel already gone beyond that tank, and siphoning petrol by the road is dangerous too. - Even the radio or your windows aren't worth switching your ignition on for. ## The fuel drain, step by step, after the van arrives - First, three queries: which fuel was put in, the volume, and has it run? Those answers decide this job, and so the price follows them. - Out of the tank comes the contaminated blend: your tank is cleared. - The lines are flushed. If it ran, the petrol has moved beyond that tank, and the fuel lines are holding it. - Cleaned, or swapped if the vehicle has a serviceable one: your filter is sorted next. - Priming comes after fresh diesel is in. - First start on fresh diesel. When priming is finished, the motor is started and we check that it runs smoothly. Till it runs on fresh diesel, our engineers remain with it. Permanent damage is very rare when it has been caught soon, so the vehicle can go straight back to normal driving. ## Back on the road in Wick Hill after your fuel drain - After it's been started on clean fuel, there's nothing unusual to do: drive normally. - Keep an eye on the first miles. A warning light, smoke, a lumpy idle or a flat spot under the throttle tells you to pull over and call us back. - Your documents covers the question a rental company, fleet manager or insurer may ask: what work was carried out. Keep it. - The handle's colour isn't the thing to go by next time — the label on the pump is. ## About Wick Hill, for a moment Wick Hill is a suburban area in Berkshire, situated inland at an elevation of 84 metres, and is located approximately 32 miles from London. Wick Hill comprises predominantly detached housing and is near to other residential areas such as The Ridges and Finchampstead. Wick Hill is also close to the settlement of The Throat and the city of Winchester, which is about 30 miles away. ## Fuel drains round Wick Hill and beyond The same vans that take petrol in diesel calls around Wick Hill cover The Ridges, Finchampstead and The Throat, and most of Berkshire beyond them. Somewhere tricky to explain, or close to a border? Asking beats guessing — ring. ## Petrol in a diesel anywhere across Berkshire? Off, then ring Petrol in Diesel carries on from there — on your drive, at the roadside, on the forecourt — once you have done stage one: keys out, motor off, receipt in your pocket.