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athelstan Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: Reality Posts: 2658 ![]() |
Diesel & Petrol Powered FL2
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athelstan Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: Reality Posts: 2658 ![]() |
FINALLY - GOOD PRACTICE
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RVG Member Since: 13 Oct 2007 Location: Canberra Posts: 33 ![]() ![]() |
So, the basic advice is "When all else fails read the Instructions". |
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Big Dave Member Since: 22 Nov 2009 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 1055 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Just fill it up, modern diesels just fire straight back up...in my experience anyway! Mine: 2012 Golf GTI Edition 35
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ttc546 Member Since: 05 Mar 2008 Location: Camberley Posts: 224 ![]() ![]() |
errrmmm ... no .... ![]() this topic is sooooo relevant to me right now. Last week, in my partners 3 year old Zafira, and with the guage still reading a smidgeon, and on the way to a refuel, I ground to a halt - it had run out of deisel. I walked the 2 miles to the station, got a can, filled it up and walked the 2 miles back. (massively ![]() Absolutely NoGo! Called a friendly mechanic, who used a vacuum pump to suck up the diesel to the injectors, then disconnected some pipework to bleed the air out, turn over ignition to bleed, reconnect and then restart and Hey Presto! £55 to the mechanic and back home to face the music indoors ![]() |
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heliosuk Member Since: 08 Oct 2010 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 118 ![]() |
Actually there's an easy way around this on HPCR engines.
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DrownedRat Member Since: 19 Oct 2009 Location: Back in the hot seat Posts: 496 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Friend of mine had a similar problem with his s-Max.
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Big Dave Member Since: 22 Nov 2009 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 1055 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
I actually thought nowadays modern diesels sorted themselves out when they have fuel put in....
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mudslinger Member Since: 10 Jun 2010 Location: Deep in a cave in the hills Posts: 1035 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Thought the Idea of a fuel gauge is so you do NOT run out of fuel.....???
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chicken george Member Since: 05 Dec 2007 Location: N. Yorks Posts: 13292 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Running the tank low doesnt pull crap out of the tank. the fuel is recirculated constantly much of it returning from the injectors to the tank through the leak off system. so the fuel is constantly filtered. if there is crap in your tank you will no well before you run low on juice.
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W.D.C.A.P.H. Member Since: 19 Feb 2010 Location: Stonehenge Posts: 310 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Once upon a time, a long time ago, when I was wearing a green suit, I got called out to an 8 tonne green Bedford that had run out of fuel. We got him started after we got some diesel and the driver, (at fault), had done the required 250 pumps, by hand, on the primer lever. (A right pain in the a**e I can tell you).
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Past master Member Since: 30 Jun 2010 Location: Isle of Ely Posts: 2710 ![]() ![]() |
It's bio-diesel that pulls crap outof your tank. But there's unlikely to be any in cars as new as ours. Plus the crap is usually rust, and I suspect we have a plastic tank. Old LR petrol vehicles (Series III) had a little glass filter bowl which constantly filled with rust flakes. And which broke when you dropped it as you took it off. |
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ttc546 Member Since: 05 Mar 2008 Location: Camberley Posts: 224 ![]() ![]() |
Clearly not a follower of Clarkson then! ![]() I remember my old motorbiking days, when all you had was a lever you turned to Reserve when it spluttered after a couple of hundred miles. If you turned the lever to Reserve AFTER you had just passed a motorway service station (and in those days they were 30 miles apart at least!), and Reserve only contained 25 miles of fuel, then the inevitable would happen .... Glad I had AA membership! ![]() |
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druand Member Since: 07 Sep 2009 Location: south ayrshire Posts: 825 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
You can NOT run out of fuel in most modern common rail diesels, the car will stop after being electronically switched off when fuel falls below reserve level but still leaves a small ammount of fuel in tank and in system.
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