Filled Up On The Wrong Fuel At Asda

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4666874/Chaos-Asda-petrol-reservoir-filled-diesel.html

Once had this happen to me, also at a ASDA filling station.

I was half way home when the car started acting up, but I managed to limp back to the filling station, where there were many other drivers in the same position.

The ASDA manager invited us all to have a free breakfast in the cafe while we waited for them to arrange pick-up trucks so as to tow the cars to local garages and taxis to take us home.

Compensation was paid, and there was no damage done to my car.

[Islay]

Great but I always thought the advice was not to drive the car after you realised that you had put the wrong fuel in your car. So rather than limp back to Asda you should have stayed where you were to minimise any possible damage.
But good story though.

[trt]

If its a car under 2 years old, there could be permanent damage,

[EcclesCake]

I too would expect compensation after an Asda breakfast! ;-)

[Islay]

lmao

[DTCwordfan]

you must stop running your beastie on cheap cognac, AOG.

[anotheoldgit]

DTCwordfan

I don't buy cheap cognac. :0)

[anotheoldgit]

Islay

At that stage I did not know it was the wrong fuel, just knew that the car ran perfectly well until I filled up, and knowing that I had defiantly filled from the unleaded pump, I wrongly assumed that it might have been dirty petrol or water had somehow got into the main tank.

[jno]

glad there was no damage - as Islay says, the usual advice is to stop at once. Obviously you couldn't as you didn't know, but the reason the advice is given is that it can cause damage.

Asda did the right thing, though. (Apart from the wrong fuel.)

[ToraToraTora]

Did you read the post Islay before jumping down his throat? He did not know it was the wrong fuel as it was the garage that had the wrong fuel in the wrong pump. So desperate you are to be a smart aris!

[bhg481]

Not likely to be permanent damage to a petrol engine fiiled with diesel but a diesel engine filled with petrol can be very seriously damaged.

[Islay]

Geezer I'm struggling to be polite to you, I have not jumped down anyone's throat. This is the 2nd accusation of such today. Please stop.

[TWR]

AOG, you will not be the first of the last to make this error, the amount of wrong fuel Errors is very serious if I can use that term, when the derv pump was on it's own there was never these errors, the sooner these fuel outs realise this, the less errors will be made.