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.
- 1Diluting the small amount of gasoline by filling the rest of the tank with diesel.
- 2drain the fuel tank completely
- 3dilute the mixture by continuously topping off with diesel
- 4call 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
Where this came up
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