Thread: Water in Diesel

I use to buy my fuel at Warilla servo, a Woolies one when i lived down there. I got fuel with water FOUR times. No joke. That was in about 10 fills. I wrote letters, went to the servo with samples and did all that. got laughed at a couple of times and no response on the letter front.

Also down south near burril lake it happened but the owner gave me a free fill and no damage was done to the vehicle.

I have nothing to base it on but sometimes I wonder about south coast fuel because I have been told by many people they have been screwed down there.

Sorry to hear about all your damage I hope it gets fixed for you without to much outlay.

Xav

oh shivers , Just came back from the south coast hope i haven't picked up bad fuel down there...

but then again I filled up in sydney and refilled again at Berry so i might be safe.

I know this my sound silly but shouldn't the fuel filter stop that sort of thing??
seriously cos if it don't then there should be one that does!!

I haven't admitted this to many people but on my way back from Fraser Island a few months after getting my new disco I filled up my diesel with 3/4 petrol. I was on autopilot at the time and had been driving for 8 hours with 3 scrappy kids and a wife that wouldn't stop talking. Got 10 minutes down the road to stop for a kids wee break and the thing wouldn't start! Thinking it was my old disco, gave it a few pumps and it started again - but the dash lit up like a christmas tree! I immediately realised what I had done, and after a barrage of swearing got it towed to the local LR dealer. Following an anxious weekend (and a few hundred beers to dull the agony), got it back monday morning smelling seriously like petrol but otherwise perfectly fine. $700 total bill - obviously not under warranty. Have since put over 35k on it with no dramas whatsoever. thankfully my mates dont subscribe to this website. Just goes to show you how tough these engines are. and how stupid i am!
cheers

Originally Posted by kingyrules

I know this my sound silly but shouldn't the fuel filter stop that sort of thing??
seriously cos if it don't then there should be one that does!!

There is. They are made by Racor (Raycor?).They are a fuel filter with a cyclonic separator section that works in a similar manner to Donaldson air cleaners. My opinion is that they are the best fuel filter available. Get them at any decent truck parts / diesel shop.

Peter
Sorry to hear about your bad luck with water and dirt in the fuel . Hope you can sort it out with the petrol station and your insurance company so you're not out of pocket .
This could happen to any of us . I guess it's a real lucky dip every time we go into any petrol station .
What damage was done for a $ 9,000 repair bill ? Seems like a hell of a lot .
John

This will happen with new fandangled technolgy diesels sorry to say , But one way i to try and avoid this is i always fill up where there is a fast fuel hose manly where trucks fill up as the turn over of diesel is greater with trucks fueling up more frequent with larger tanks than the average car or 4x4