999MJR
Member Since: 09 Oct 2005
Location: YORKSHIRE
Posts: 81
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| Dont try this at home youve been warned!!!!!! |
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Well Guys i thought id share this with you just to make you think twice 
Last Wednesday the 31st i had the mis fortune to put £25 of Petrol  yes i said it petrol in my Diesel discovery 3 
What was i thinking you may ask? Well i was on 3 miles range and went to a local BP garage off the M1 at Carrgate Wakefield
Suffice to say my mind was definatley else where.After leaving the garage i proceeded to the M62 East.
Joining the motorway i felt the car pink and it made me grab the receipt my worst fears were revealed
Premium unleaded
I quickly turned off the engine and coasted to the hard shoulder and rang Landrover assistance.
Aweek on and i have to report the facts Maindealer quoted wait for it..  ........... You better sit down or take your medication.....................................................................................................................Are you ready?
£4600.08 
So let this be a lesson from me for you all !!!!!!
Mind you i did feel better when the Service manager told me three highways officers had done the same last week 3 times!!!!
A Further Double blow also on the horizon is that my job is being bumped down a band so its re apply for your job time  but they are so nice they will give me more work less money and take the car back isnt that a nice employer
Any donations gratefully received. Luckily the insurance is covering the Bill less my £100 excess Thankgod!
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999MJR
Member Since: 09 Oct 2005
Location: YORKSHIRE
Posts: 81
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That did include VAT by the way 
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| 8th Feb 2007 12:34 am |
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White Disco
Member Since: 15 Jan 2007
Location: Gondwana. It's raining. We'll All be roon'd.
Posts: 1463
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Phew for the insurance.
I hope your luck gets better.
Cheers. Did you think I would leave you crying,
When there's room in my D3 for 7,
Climb in here Joe we'll soon be flying,
I can go just as fast with 7.
2005 TDV6 S with Terrain Response (& all that entails), Tasmods (gorn). 2008 TDV6 HSE (gone). A Dark Side umbrella (here) & car (here).
Volkswagen Golf (SWMBO's)
Datsun Insult (SWTSMBOBIO22SHOMSAH)
Datsun Insult (SWTSMBOBIO19SHOMSAH)
4 BMW's (Stents, not the silly cars)
Formerly RED DISCO
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| 8th Feb 2007 12:37 am |
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TDMP
Member Since: 16 Jul 2006
Location: South Gippsland
Posts: 511
 
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| Re: Dont try this at home youve been warned!!!!!! |
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999MJR wrote: A Further Double blow also on the horizon is that my job is being bumped down a band so its re apply for your job time but they are so nice they will give me more work less money and take the car back isnt that a nice employer
Can I suggest letting them take the car back BEFORE you pay for the repairs Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
(Epicurus BC 341-270)
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| 8th Feb 2007 1:03 am |
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Mossy
Member Since: 01 Jul 2005
Location: Hollyoaks, UK
Posts: 2684
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| Re: Dont try this at home youve been warned!!!!!! |
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999MJR wrote:
£4600.08
I'll buy the Petrol off you if you get them to save it.  Hey, every little helps.
Agree - thank god for insurance. D3 HSE V8...
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| 8th Feb 2007 7:08 am |
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Ocsid
Member Since: 29 Nov 2005
Location: Hampshire
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It happens so often with BP, they penalise those who chose to buy their premium products by stupidly not clearly differentiating between the petrol and diesel pumps. Been there and so nearly joined the club. Best boycott the green filling stations till they see the light, I do.
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| 8th Feb 2007 8:01 am |
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fisherman
Member Since: 16 Jan 2007
Location: Hornchurch Essex
Posts: 1789
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http://www.disco3.co.uk/forum/topic8681.html?highlight=petrol
Check out this link, I did the same and claimed off BP.
They paid the whole cost of the repair when I sent my receipt to them complaining.
May be worth a go if it saves your no claims bonus. FFRR 2017 4.4SDV8 Autobiography. Cost so much I must be mad!
D4 HSE 2012 Like a second wife, more expensive but goes better! I almost cried this time!
D3 HSE 2006 (Almost 8 years together, true love)
Land Cruiser VX 1994 11 years together, wife cried when I p/ex'd for my D3
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| 8th Feb 2007 9:41 am |
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DiscoAtom
Member Since: 28 Sep 2006
Location: Sydney
Posts: 142
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Before I had the Disco3 I did the same thing to my Prado. Fortunately for me I had only filled one of Prado's tanks with unleaded, the other I proceeded to fill with diesel. The garage attendent was throughly confused when I turned to pay for both petrol and diesel!! When I got home I drained the petrol from the car and over a period of 12 months burned the petrol off after dilluting the diesel with it. With the dilluted diesel, the engine ran even rougher and the mileage was a little worse. Couldn't use the petrol on petrol engines because it was already contaminated with a little diesel.
We all stuff up some time.... '06 Disco 3 TDV6 SE Buckingham Blue
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| 19th Feb 2007 11:57 pm |
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LR3some
Member Since: 18 Sep 2006
Location: Miami
Posts: 14
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| petrol in a diesel vs. diesel in a petrol |
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When I was in high school a girl in my class put diesel in her dads car by mistake. Granted it was not entirely her fault.... and here is why. Instead of telling his daughter the difference between the various grades and types of gas fearing it would confuse her he simply told her to put in whatever fuel was the most expensive (as that was the best gas and what her dad's Mercedes required). Well, at that gas station premium gasoline was priced below diesel (and because of what her father said) she managed to pump in a full tank of diesel. I guess there is a lesson in that experience for everyone.
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| 27th Feb 2007 3:41 am |
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999MJR
Member Since: 09 Oct 2005
Location: YORKSHIRE
Posts: 81
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| Conclusion and let it be a warning!!!! |
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Well people got the car back after the fuel mix up but it took 10 weeks to fix
9 weeks waiting for a flaming fuel tank and only hurried on because of calls to Landrover customer services.
So if you planning to try a drop of petrol in your diesel dont expect the car back in a hurry
But all credit to the Guys at Guy Salmon Leeds its back as new only held up by parts availability
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| 3rd Apr 2007 11:07 pm |
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Ah Sun
Member Since: 14 Apr 2007
Location: Sydney
Posts: 2
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Be sure to get some cooking oil and leave em in your car, at least the engine run better on em than patrol.
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| 28th Apr 2007 11:50 am |
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yawlboy
Member Since: 23 Feb 2007
Location: Dubai
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My sister rang me today with an interesting story about her new 2007 diesel Mitsubishi Pajero (Shogun) which had approx. 20 litres of unleaded  put in by the man at the garage on Monday.
She wasn't aware until she drove 7 miles and the car stopped. She then realised she had parked at her "normal pump" at the garage - which was fine for her previous car a Lexus RX300. So she rang the garage, they apologised for causing the problem and they came and towed her car away. Apparently the pump attendant was "always making mistakes"
Two hours later they rang her and said it was fixed 
They gave her a full tank of DIESEL fuel for her troubles.......... 3 days later and the car has been running fine...........
I know I wouldn't have accepted it 1993 Defender 110 300tdi - many mods
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| 2nd May 2007 9:42 am |
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bkehoe
Member Since: 24 Feb 2006
Location: Wexford
Posts: 1481
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I know someone with a D3 who filled it with petrol, drove it till it stopped, drained the tank himself and then refilled with diesel and started up again and has been running fine since. IE - 05 D3 TDV6 HSE - Zambezi Silver
SA - 07 VW Golf TDI - White - Sold!
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| 2nd May 2007 10:03 am |
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