petrol in my diesel tank

hi, i have just done the most stupid thing and put £10 of petrol in my diesel
406 on the n plate, i didnt realise this untill 15 miles later when my car
came to a halt, it pulled back a few times before this happened, i tried
starting the car many times, it did start once but soon stoped again, what
can i do to rectify this act of maddness and what sort damage have i done?
can this car be repaired at a resonable cost?
Thanks
Diviy Dave

 

drain the fuel tank, replace the fuel filter
fill up with diesel, should run fine again

damage that could have been done is that the fuel pump was not
lubricated for a while but bosch pump are quite rugged and can stand a
fair amount of abuse


oh and yes you are plain stupid, as s my mom and half of my
friends....( the other half drives petrol)

 

Mark
Don't worry
I have done it with my R plate 406 1.9TDI. In this case I only put in £1
worth
The solution used here was to fill the tank up completely with diesel and I
had no problems but then the tank was only a quarter full to start with.
This was 6 years ago.
You will probably need to change the fuel filter but first it would be worth
draining the fuel filter using the hand primer and water drain point. I have
drained a jerry can of fuel this way in the past but it takes time.
Mike

 

So many people have done this, so don't worry.
How much was in the tank before this incident? If it was quite low, then you
will only have put in max 1/4 of a tank. You need to fill it up with diesel
ASAP, but you could add a couple of bottles of veggie oil to increase the
lubricating quality of the fuel.
Then as suggested, drain the filter and pump up new fuel until you lose the
neat petrol. Then bleed as usual and it should restart OK and all will be
fine.
I doubt you will ever do it again