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It just happened at a gas station in New Jersey: cars got filled with kerosene after a delivery tank truck mistakenly filled one of the pumps deposits with aeroplane fuel. So what happened next? Did the cars explode in flames? Did they run faster?
Actually, the response is (fortunately) a let down: the cars just stalled. The engines just failed, unable to combust the fuel, leaving drivers stranded on the road. According to the hazardous materials crews on the scene, there’s no danger of the cars catching on fire. The station has been closed as they locate the deposit with the aeroplane fuel inside. [CBS]
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I know the fuel is different but you can put normal car fuel in an F1 car:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=H5jei8Y19vI
Also my uncle used airplane fuel in his car, I think it was a transit diesel – I guess that makes a difference?
Would diesel cars still be able to run with aeroplane fuel? As they don’t ignite the fuel directly and wait for the natural combustion point of a liquid, surely it could still work. I suppose it depends on whether you could compress the fuel enough.
As it’s essentially just a different grade of diesel, albeit with an even higher flash point so it’s safer, you can certainly get away with running a diesel car on 50:50 Jet A-1 and diesel.
You might be able to run petrol cars on JP4 (50:50 kerosene & petrol), but they wouldn’t appreciate it for long!
Dissapointed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6ZklI4D5Ko
Well I’m not going near an aeroplane until they find the one they accidentally filled with the petrol intended for the cars then!
Jet A1 won’t work in a petrol car, but normal avgas does just fine. I remember using some at the gliding club when we ran out of normal petrol for the winch buggy.
For some reason the terms in this comment tickled me
“What did you do today?”
“Well I ended up having to put avgas in the winch buggy at the gliding club!”
Pretty sure i seen Peter from Family Guy steal airplane fuel and his car drove just fine.
Fuck me, great story.
I do hope you’re being sarcastic.
He’s been on a dry spell for a while and unfortunately for him he’s resorted to pimping himself out on Giz.
We try to keep him involved in the community but to be honest, he ends up like the drunk uncle who falls asleep in the La-z Boy at Christmas.
And don’t think I don’t appreciate it.
People put wrong fuel in cars, cars stop.
waddya want, blood?
When I was driving my Land Rover Discovery with a 300TDi engine around Ethiopia I had problems with the diesel being contaminated by either kerosene or paraffin over a period of weeks and this resulted in a gradual loss of power as the resulting thick black sludge started to clog up my fuel system and injectors. I failed to find any decent mechanics outside of Addis so I managed to make it into Sudan, where eventually I had so little power left that my top speed was down to 30kph so once we got onto tarmac my friends towed me 400km to Khartoum. This would have been horrendously expensive to fix in Europe, but in Khartoum they stripped and cleaned the entire fuel system for $100 and it had it running better than new.
I put petrol into an old diesel focus – 10 miles down the road it stalled and I had a facepalm moment when i realised what I’d done.
AA man just hoovered it all out and sent me on my way. He said if I had a modern diesel it would have cost thousands to repair.
A few years back I used to run my old Toyota estima on 50/50 diesel & veg oil.
Every time I pass a chippy and get a whiff it brings back memorys