Petrol in an E270cdi does Mobilolife cover?

[230K]

Hi

A friends wife put £10 of petrol in an E270cdi it was taken to the dealers to get fixed and she is worried about what it will cost to fix. Did i read somewhere that Mobilolife covers this or is it just if you run out of fuel.

Help anyone please.

230K

 

[Robbo]

they definately wont cover this, the engine may need a new fuel pump. V expensive.

 

[fuzzer]

i think they covered this at one point ...

gonna have to watch this myself , the diesels are so good you forget

 

[Robbo]

i think they covered this at one point ...

Thats certainly very generous if they do cover it!

 

[marcos]

Bad mistake,

By taking it to the dealers she may cause herself huge problems. They will try to change all fuel lines, pumps ( low and high pressure ), filters and anything else they can think of. She may have also invalidated the warranty on the engine components.
Sorry to sound bleak but I have read about this several times and I personally think Mercedes attitude towards this stinks but they seem to really go to town with this.
All of the above will not be covered by warranty.

 

[230K]

Hi

She didn't start the car, she phone the dealer onece she realised what she had done, hopefully just a drain of the tank needed.

230K

 

[Tony M]

If you put the wrong fuel in , it's chargeable.

On the good news front, if you run an oil Burner with petrol in the tank, the engine management system recognises the drop in pressure and hopefully shuts the engine down before any damage is done.

 

[Webby]

Did that on a courtesy car, (only 3k on the clock) ran it for 20miles too.
Took it back to the vw garage where i'd loaned it from, they said it happened all the timeand there was no problem, "it won't have any effect whatsoever on the engine." They drained the tank,put 2galls diesel in and charged me £30 for doing it.

 

[Tan]

I think that there is a really simple solution to this problem in general, why don't the petrol station / car manufacturers get together and design either a different shaped or other identifieable filler and nozzle for diesel.

 

[marcos]

I think that there is a really simple solution to this problem in general, why don't the petrol station / car manufacturers get together and design either a different shaped or other identifieable filler and nozzle for diesel.

Because it's too much like common sense mate

 

[Shude]

why don't the petrol station / car manufacturers get together and design either a different shaped or other identifieable filler and nozzle for diesel.

If the diesel drivers went to a diesel station instead of a petrol station it'd be much simpler

 

[Tan]

If the diesel drivers went to a diesel station instead of a petrol station it'd be much simpler

LOL :bannana:

 

[grasmere]

was it BP Ultimate ?

 

[Busker]

Apparantly on new cars Mobilolife cover does cover for mis-fueling. I'm unfortunating having a bad time at home at the moment and not thinking straight a couple of weeks ago filled up at the green pumped instead of the black pump. I'm not going to tell you how much it all cost but by the time I'd driven the 800metres and got the EPC error it's all gone Pete Tong. Recovery - full drain, wash out etc glup lots of pennies.

Mind you the local MB dealer went out of their way to help. Even supplying a hire car (not covered) at an incredibly cheap price.

A very sad day for me

A very sad time for me

 

[l5foye]

If only £10's worth of petrol was put in, all was needed was to either bring the tank up to full with diesel or if the petrol brought it up to full, drive it and then fill with diesel. £10's worth of petrol in a E Class tank will not cause any
problems. As I recall, there was a time MB recommended some petrol in diesel in winter conditions.

 

[andy_k]

I think that there is a really simple solution to this problem in general, why don't the petrol station / car manufacturers get together and design either a different shaped or other identifieable filler and nozzle for diesel.

All the stations I've been in have managed this - they put the word "DIESEL" on the pump it's a dead giveaway

Andy

 

[PJH]

All the stations I've been in have managed this - they put the word "DIESEL" on the pump it's a dead giveaway

Andy

...but some people can't read.

I 'spose the filling stations don't want to put all diesel pumps together incase they get a rush of diesel customers all at once.

As Tan said, Diesel nozzles should have been a different shape.
Rectangular perhaps.

 

[andy_k]

not wishing to be pedantic but if you can't read how do you get a driving licence?

and not wanting to offend anybody but have you noticed that 99% of the time it's the owners of diesels filling their cars with petrol and not the other way round?

does this suggest that

a, a larger number of diesel drivers are illiterate?
b, the petrol companies are in league with the manufacturers and disguise the pumps because they want all diesel drivers to destroy their engines as they last longer than their petrol counterparts?
c, many diesel drivers occasionally forget they are driving a diesel, fill up with the wrong fuel and then look for somebody else to blame as admitting the mistake would make them look silly?

Sometimes before you can be helped - you have to help yourself

Andy

 

[PJH]

...but some people can't read.

perhaps I should have said can't/won't read.


You're right Andy, if does seem to be that more diesels are misfuelled than petrols.

 

[Tan]

I guess one reason for that is that often on the pump there are more petrol nozzles than diesel. At my local station each pump has Unleaded, Super Unleaded and Diesel.

Plus I would guess that there are more new diesel drivers out there.