Said It Here

Putting gasoline in a diesel car

Accidentally filling a diesel vehicle with gasoline and worrying if it will cause engine damage.

What people tried

Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.

  1. 1
    Diluting the small amount of gasoline by filling the rest of the tank with diesel.
  2. 2
    drain the fuel tank completely
  3. 3
    dilute the mixture by continuously topping off with diesel
  4. 4
    call a professional to pump out the fuel

In their words

Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.

r/AskMechanics2 people · October 2026

“Fylte på 0.9 liter bensin i min diesel bil.”source ↗

“Er det farlig?”source ↗

Kazandinho · r/AskMechanics · 1 upvotes

“i’m a idiot and accidentally put 5 litres of gas into my boss diesel truck”source ↗

Flaky-Cloud-4355 · r/AskMechanics · 1 upvotes

“i panicked i didn’t know what to do man ! worst comes to worse i might just take my life cause im really scared”source ↗

Flaky-Cloud-4355 · r/AskMechanics

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