Incorrect fuel in your Lotus Elise? Diesel in your Petrol Lotus?

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Filling Diesel in a Petrol Lotus is a fairly typical problem. And exactly what you need to do about it is based on a variety of factors. If you would like to find out what you have to do to sort it out then keep reading.
Listed below are the main variables to take into account whenever choosing whether or not to have a fuel drain:

1. What level of Diesel have you put in the Lotus, considering that the fuel tank capacity of the Lotus Elise is in most cases approximately 49 litres?
   1. A modest amount of Diesel, less than 2.45 litres of Diesel in a Petrol Elise will quite often not necessarily be a major problem. Experience has demonstrated to us that anything under 2.45 litres (5% of the whole fuel tank) is quite often capable of being completely diluted by thoroughly filling the remainder of the tank with the appropriate fuel.
      It is highly uncommon to encounter a motor vehicle suffering from difficulties because of less than 5% incorrect fuel contamination. Keep in mind it's infrequently found - not impossible to encounter. You can get certain motor vehicles that will not endure any amount of contamination at all.
   2. Between 2.45 and 4.9 litres of Diesel in the Lotus (from 5 to 10%) is more of a 50/50 scenario. Our practical experience has shown us that as many motorists get away with this as those people who don't. When you are trying to decide whether or not to risk it and basically fill it up remember that it is the same thing as wagering it all on black - you've got a 50/50 possibility of it being ok.
   3. Anything over 4.9 litres of Diesel in your Petrol Elise should promptly be drained as your likelihood of succeeding with that quantity of contamination is probably below one in 50 - definitely long odds.
2. Put some Diesel in a Petrol Lotus and drove it: Have you seen any kind of performance concerns ever since putting the wrong fuel in your Elise? If that's the case, get it removed regardless of the amount of Diesel or even the contamination percentage. Continually driving an automobile that is beginning to suffer from the consequences of fuel contamination will likely be responsible for more and more damage affecting the fuel system.
3. Do you need security?
   Then simply just get it emptied. Whatever the contamination percentage, there is always some degree of danger connected with running a Petrol vehicle on fuel contaminated with the incorrect fuel. Possible outcomes of driving a car on the incorrect fuel normally include the motor refusing to start, running lumpy, losing power, degradation of the high-pressure pump, worn or blocked injectors, and so forth. These are a few of the most common Diesel in Petrol symptoms, and should you recognise any of them then stop and have it drained right away.

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