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Rather than disturbing everything removing the tank, would have been easier to purge the in tank pump via VCDS, yes you won’t get 100% of the petrol out, but if you brim it with diesel won’t do any harm, save all the hassle

Never a dull watch. Really enjoy the randomness of the content. Doesn’t get predictable or boring. Unlike the rest of the channels. But gotta admit seriously jealous right now - would love to convert one of these into a stealth camper. Cracking stuff Dean!

Love your videos man. Thanks for being so educational, and providing excellent content.

Really enjoyed watching the progress through this video and seeing the van fixed in the end. These little short fix videos are quite entertaining. Always impressed with the work you do man 👍

Oh how I chortled when the tank fell off of the wood, what a plank I thought lol. Cracking video Dean and hopefully the Transporter will give you a decent profit once you sell or raffle it.

This was a great video really like this kind of stuff . Plus you get a nearly new van and as you say you have never had one before so enjoy the work horse . Have seen people do that before and wondered how it's fixed or can be . So I really enjoyed this thanks

Man I love your channel! Quality repairs and content, no bulls*** straight to the point being a mechanic myself something I would consider doing when I have the money

Use to work for a Break down firm in Huntingdon many moons ago and use to love getting Tank drain jobs after hours ,good earners and easy with a fuel Evac unit,nice one dean 👍😉💪

Half filled my 2.2 transit with petrol before i realised. Toppes it up with diesel and apart from smoking it ran lovely.

Great video Dean. A while back we used to use Shell as our fuel supplier and there was a small station that still pumped the fuel, we used the place on a regular basis, we were not always in the same van's. We pulled in gave the key to the cap the the attendant and walked in to get some other bits, I get to the counter and they tell me the amount of fuel I give them the milage and they say petrol I reply it netter mot be. I wouldn't mind it has Diesel around the cap. We spent the rest of the day having a picnic and messing about on a big grass area outside the fuel station they kept us full of tea and coffee while their mechanics drained the tank cleaned it out and re filled it with Diesel. We then went back to the yard, It was harder than working we were soul destroyed after 2 hours. We ran that van for another 3 years.

I have to drop tanks for mixed fuel often, I use 2 ratchet straps and cradle the tank and lower each end back and forth, drain holes in the frame are good places for the hooked ends. Never dropped a tank with this method and have to deal with tanks exceeding 26 gallons.

You probably covered this off camera but with all of that unburned petrol in the oil, a change of oil and filter may be considered.

FYI vw sell a fuel adative get some of that in it to help lube the HPP and injectors ! May stop them from failing in the future

I would suggest checking the injectors and high pressure fuel pump. The hpfp is lubricated with diesel. If you fill up with petrol the lubrication is not sufficient which can cause metal shavings in the fuel system causing more damage to the engine in the longterm. Otherwise nice video :)

Another really interesting video, your problem solving and skill in rectifying the many issues that arise are really refreshing. Please keep the vlogs going, a mixture would be good but that depends on whats available.

Like this content, shorter style quick fix. Hopefully that is the van fully fixed, time will tell. But more importantly we got a TVR update 🎉🎉🎉 happy days. Good work as always Dean 👍🏼

You’re a braver man, than me Tonto. I’m not sure I would’ve pumped petrol with that oil evacuation pump. But hey, you’ve shown us it didn’t burst into flames 😂😂

Glad you had some good luck smart van and can’t wait for the updates

That was a great little video very informative thanks alot 👍

Great video as always man. Any GTR videos coming up soon?

Enjoyed watching this Nice insight into what happens with misfueling

Dean, you can run the fuel pump using VCDS to purge the fuel system.

That's a great result on that one! Good job! More easy fixed please!

Really enjoyed that something different… i once owned a VW transporter T6 I had the same problem. You can’t find any thing online regarding wiring fuses boxes, anything like that I had to join a VW transporter forum absolute nightmare but I love the van. I had the SportsLine with a DSG box 😊😊😊😊😊

did something similar with my mums 04 golf diesel, she filled it with £40 worth of petrol!! towed it back to the house, lifted the rear seat to get to the fuel pump, took that out and used a pump to get the fuel out, filled it with some diesel and first turn of the key it started.. without replacing fuel pump etc... its been running for over 2 years since without issue.. surprisingly tough VW engines

Nice to see that this job turn of for the best ! Car is running and is a beauty !!

Petrol in a Diesel especially if it's a common rail normally kills the high pressure pump either instantly or sooner rather than later, hard to believe they wrote that off for a miss fuel, no wonder our insurance has gone through the roof...

Yes brov, quality vlog, and awesome work, I'm impressed 👏...decent van....you did good 👍....respect 👍

Hi Dean. Lovely Van and such an easy fix. I can't wait for the Raffle for this beauty. Keep up the Great Work Dean 😅🇨🇮

Fuel pump only activates for a second or 2 when ignition is switched into position 2 and you have to do that about 10-15 times for it to fill the filter, that's what I always do on diesels that don't have the priming bulbs after a fuel filter replacement.

I filled an ASDA home delivery sprinter van to the top full of petrol after an 8 hour shift. Never owned a diesel and just picked up the wrong nozzle. Managed to drive it the store before it began to stutter, and then it dawned on me what I had done. It was repaired within a few days, but my reputation lived on for several months.

Excellent vid and really interesting! Great result in the end, thats a fantastic van. That adblue looks a pain in the arse though. 😂

The petrol you drained works brilliantly in a chainsaw.

We'll done fixing the VW van. We'll smart. Good for you. Great video.

How awesome, great job of getting it sorted.

I did same with a Diesel Vw Eos i had, put £30 in before realising it was petrol. I then filled to top with Diesel as Petrol wtll float and called garage. Drove 1 mile to garage and had fuel Petrol drained off top of tank, new filter and away. No issues again.

You don’t have to drop the tank. You can use the fuel pump. Just ad a hose to the low pressure line and use vcds or bridge the relay.

Another great video 👍🏻 Just wondering if you was going to change the oil and filter as well 🤔

well done sir i subscribed i love everything you did but because its diesel you supposed to prime the diesel filters but i loved it thank you for sharing i love those vw transporters beautiful ride

A great video - thank you, Dean.

Not necessary to do so much work, diesel has a fuel circulation to warm up fuel and keep cooling injectors. Drain the tank and refill then crank the engine until starts running will be very rough idling until the diesel flows properly. The petrol is low compression fuel and needs a spark/ diesel is high pressure and high compression. It is up to the car make and model how you sort out.

Found this interesting thanks for the upload 😊

I had a miss-fuel on my A3 p8. Drove it home, took the back seats out and siphoned the fuel out from the pump access. Brimmed it with diesel and never had a problem other than having 40 litres of petro/diesel mix to get rid of and all the fuel I spilt when removing the pump.

What I have done is take the filter feed line, bypass it to a container and with a battery charger, run the pump with the scanner or with the relay. (Or HPFP feed), then add the correct fuel and some additives. If it is a gas engine, change or clean the spark plugs

Not a problem really just drain petrol down brim tank with diesel keep topping up every 5 gallons and would run ok . Used to put a couple of gallons of petrol in to stop diesel freezing back in the days. Great video keep them coming.

Always nice to have a quick fix Dean, let us know if you ever raffle it but to be fair I try all your competitions to no avail yet tho lol. Looking forward to Nxt video I’m off to purchase some Skoda vrs tickets & who knows maybe this time I’ll win haha

You can save or the hassle of removing the tank by using a scan tool. There's an option to drain the fuel tank on the better ones.

Hi Darren my last van had only 1 garage door on it but new new 1 has 2 doors and it's great so best of luck with it

Great Video and a quick fix. :)

I feel sure that someone else will have said this, but as I couldn't see anything in the first 25/30 comments.... I would suggest putting half a gallon of diesel in the tank swishing it around then pumping that out as well, you can then be sure that any residuals are removed, or at least heavily diluted. This would obviously apply equally to the leave tank in situ and use original pump option as well, as this seems to be the easiest option.

Great vid as always. You can see why insurance premiums go up if these companies claim on insurance for a miss fuel. You never mentioned how much you paid for the van ?

Welcome to the work i do as roadside assistance. Recommendations fill it up with more diesel. With the amount of petrol it would have acted weird really quickly so they most likely turned it off quickly or it died 😊😊

Great result, good looking vw too, great video

Lovely van mate. Do a oil and filter change, stick some a egr/dpf cleaner additive into the tank and take it on good motorway run then brim the tank with vpower diesel then it’ll be sound. Did you need to code the new battery to the van?

You are so positive and confident…………I wish I was more like that……..that is why you are so successful

Nice little win Dean. Well done m8. 👏

Great work as always mate, we like an easy win when we can get it.

Brilliant job Dean, great van!👍

Great video as always Dean! Camper conversion...

Love Ur content brother keep it up dude

Have the same 72 plate vw van for work, lovely vehicle to drive when they are working.

Glad you had some good luck - good video

That's a sweet van! Can't get vans with a manual trans anymore in the states. I would keep it permanently and make it the shop hauler/weekend camper.

I accidentally put a quarter of a tank of unleaded in my company vw transporter about 10 years ago, topped it up with diesel to the top and it ran really well.

it being an ex rental they'll have miss fuel insurance. and its not worth them fixing as potentially lost days of rent etc. looks like a smart van. i filled a petrol car with diesel when i was younger, unfortunately i brimmed it so had to get it totally drained. with older carbaretta cars you could get away with about 1/3rd the wrong fuel. not sure about the other way round but nice to know its a relatively easy fix, and a nice clean van at the end of it

Great job, hope you got it for a good price

all modern VW, SEAT, SKODA, AUDI cars require VCDS software to activate the tank fuel pump if you replace the fuel filter or mess with the fuel tank, in order not to starve the high pressure fuel pump of lubrication. diesel lubricates, petrol doesn't. most likely the high pressure fuel pump is toast, in short time will make shrapnel , which will end up in the fuel system, tank, injectors.

Great video Dean You had me so engrossed even I was saying “come on” Love the all in one vid content.

Nice one Dean can't wait to see the tvr videos.

years ago i used a 5l can of the right fuel to run an engine (using a small elec pump) which then not only kept the cars battery charged but purged the wrong fuel into a drum using the existing pump which i think we was changing anyway so it didnt matter if it burnt itself out.

Nice easy fix 😊 Reminds me when my mate put diesel in his petrol TT600 Triumph motorbike... 😂

Just a thought: Looks like a fibreglass fuel tank so why not drill a hole in the lowest point/s and drain. Plug the hole with a large self-tapper and put in some diesel. Disguise the self-tapper for the MoT, and Bob's your uncle. Would that work? To get the engine started you can wave a petrol-soaked cloth in front of the air intake. Jack, the Japan Alps Brit

I don it 30 years ago just topped up with diesel straight away . Ran a Bit lumpy until done enough miles t refill with diesel again . Don’t get away with it by easy with modern diesel. I believe it Usually damage the injectors . But might of got away with it. As so quick on miss fuel surprised the van so rusty. My t5 11years old underneath not to rusty not to sure about bottom of the doors etc .

not the safest way but if misfuel add two stroke oil 2 3 litres plus a bottle of washing up liquid helps mixing and if you care to try adds lubricant try it on your fingers. brim tank with diesiel and just run it only works if less than 30% misfuel remember the sooner you catch it the better. petrol is a solvent strips the lubricant of diesel anything you can add back may save you the cost of a tank drain,and garages will replace pretty much anything they think may have been affected, ie filters pumps seals ,which may or may not be affected ,ie they are working to your best interest but not to lowest cost .if you have ran engine for several days damage may have occured etc,older diesils will quite happily run on a misfuel its down to new high pressure pumps they use the diesil as lubricant coolant ,if you misfuel say 10 litres petrol dump some engine oil or two stroke oil in brim up and i mean 30/40 litres diesil probally safe .also diesel is heaver than petrol so tends to sink in tank ,old 2 stroke bikes you were told to shake bike back and forth to mix oil and fuel in tank to mix before starting if bike had sat a while.the two fuels mix happily when on the move but will seperate due to having different specific gravity , also a problem with water being heavier if in fuel will sink to bottom of tank latest ethanol petrol if sat for awhile.

Give it a few hundreds miles and if the high pressure pump will be ok, you get lucky. Petrol could make a serious wear on hpp and it could shows up lately. I hope that it will be good.

Haha love the tank fall! Anyone that pisses around with vehicles does shot like this one day..glad you showed it..I was shouting drain it first! Then I saw you had a pump to drain it hahaha why not do that first! Suppose also then you could just fill with diesel, then pull engine fuel hoses and use Vcds to purge the tank and lines until clean diesel comes out! 😅

No priming on T5 facelifts and T6s after turning the key. Use VCDS or ODIS to circulate the fuel.

DEAN this is 100% true i drove manchester to glasgow in a transit years ago then deliverd and then fueld up at 3AM with petrol full tank . and it was a diesel van i started it and sat there eating a pastie and crisps then it died ,So i cut the pipe off the jet wash machine stuck it in the tank and sucked and i swear it started coming out all over the grid and grass ,Then i ree filled it with diesel ,it started but it wouldnt do over 50mph in 3rd untill i got to preston then boom it went normal ,i parked it in our yard at 9am and went home never heard again .

Wife brimmed our Caravelle with petrol when it was bone dry of diesel, then drove it still it stopped ……. Pumped it out swapped the filter and never had an issue

Instead of all the work underneath, just pull the line off the filter outlet and put a hose on it into a collection vessel. Then work out which fuse/relay feeds the pump and bridge it out. Let the pump run until it ventilates, then put 20-30L of good fuel in. Way less work doing that way. Forecourts are allowed 10% contamination between fuel types in their tanks, so, also long as you put a decent amount in the fuel tank, it'll be good enough - you don't need to totally clean the tank out.

I did this in my old golf 2.0 tdi but luckily I didn't start it and pushed it off the pump and removed the fuel pump under the back seat and used a small electric pump to drain it off into Jerry cans then filled it and ran with no issues for another 3 years till I traded it in for a gti 👍🏼

Don’t work on many small diesel engines, but I am, Bosch trained. If you took it to a dealer Or a Bosch garage, they would tell you to change everything. If you take the metering valve out you will see pieces of chrome from the cam in the pump. That is only the start of the problems. Bosch pumps hate water, petrol, and AdBlue.

Had a crafter in that had all 4 injectors replaced at separate times after a misfuel. I insisted that if we were to do the job properly we’d need to have tank and lines cleaned, replace low and high pressure pumps along with injectors, rail and lines. If you don’t do it properly on common rail VAG product, it’ll bite you on the arse. Older stuff was fine, once put £50 of unleaded in a 1.9 TDI A4 and drove it 4 miles until it stopped. Drained tank, new fuel filter, fresh diesel and never missed a beat. Different ball game to common rail imo

what a win man, i was skeptical, I assumed these newers vehuicles need so many parts inside the engine changing and engine purge too. The fact that you didn't take out injectors gave me some doubt. But that's an amazing result man. Cant beleive they didn't have someone in their company who would try to fix it and then send it to auction as a working vehicle that starts. They would have got more money for it. Literally 1 days work to get an extra 2-3 grand from auctyion.

Won a watch there, good to see something a little bit different. Would be good to do a hints and tips video of buying from copart and the likes for people who have never done it. Highlighting the pros/cons etc and the dirty tricks to watch out for. Keep up the good work 👍

40 years ago Peugeot diesel car handbooks used to recommend using up to 25% petrol in sub zero temperatures to, prevent waxing. They also stated up to 33% paraffin could be used instead but pointed out in some countries, the U.K. certainly, using paraffin would be illegal as it is not subject to road fuel taxes.

Cracking van that 👌🏻 can’t wait for the next one on the Octavia 👍

Great van Dean - I'm sure it will do you proud.

I would really be concerned about the high pressure pump crapping out and taking out the injectors. Gasoline is not a lubricant unlike diesel, I guess addblue is the same as DEF?

I just run the lift pump to drain the tank 5 litres of fresh fuel pump that through and fill up all the way. 1hr tops. What are you doing?

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You can get the residuals out with detergent, then distilled water, then isopropyl alcohol. Whether it's worth it or not is a different matter.

Filled my 2015 20,000 mile vw crafter with petrol. Drove 1 mile home. Siphoned as much petrol as I could Refilled with diesel 7 years and 130,000 miles later everything is fine. Also drove 100,000 miles in 2005 bmw 530d after mis fuelling Just personal experience

Nice work Dean... 👍🏼

Now that you mentioned, I started following you long time ago when you bought the TVR and now I had already forgotten about it...

Loved it, straight forward to the point repair. Didn’t catch how much you paid for it 😬

The add blue ones are a nightmare, trust me I work on these for a living. Sale it

It's alive. Love it when a plan comes together.😂😂

Hi great job on the wee van, your coolant looks very low , from marty in Belfast northern Ireland God bless