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GASOLINE MIXED WITH DIESEL

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As a follow-up to our recent article on this subject, I found an entertaining article at Jalopnik about driving a Cadillac Escalade with a 3.0-liter diesel engine where the author drove the SUV for 250 miles before noticing the problem.

Let’s award big points for humility to the writer. The Jalopnik story had a happy ending. The discussion between the author and an GM engineer is insightful.

You'll want to read this Jalopnik story to fully understand the risk you take with the post-1998 electronic fuel injection engines and their high pressure fuel injection systems.

https://jalopnik.com/cadillac-escalade-diesel-accidentally-filled-gasoline-1849756907


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Interesting for sure.

From the article.

"Repairing this properly requires all of the above fixes, plus replacing the low- and high-pressure fuel pumps, injectors and fuel lines. Not a cheap procedure."

Then this is all that's done and driven 900 miles basically.

"so the Chevy dealer simply drained and flushed the entire fuel system and refilled the tank with good diesel — a $750 bill"

While entertaining to a certain extent and takes a lot to write up your mistakes and own them like the Author did it's impressive for sure, the article generated probably a decent ad revenue and SEO score for their content, it's probably not even a big deal. Cost of doing business really.

Wonder what the future holds for that VIN, they should look that up in 3 years and see how it made out.



 
From some further research, the Chevy dealer was spot on! Guess they found they can really beat these things up.

As of Nov 29th 2022 they added a Diagnostic Tip for Fuel System Contamination that made the following correction in place of fuel system replacement.

This is listed under the 2023, but the actual procedure is not uploaded yet for 2023, I found it in 2022.
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If you encounter such a situation, DO NOT replace the fuel system as described in Service Bulletin #16-NA-102.

Please perform the following fuel system flushing procedure prior to performing further diagnostics.

Once the fuel system has been flushed, continue with diagnostics as described in SI.

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Here is the procedure for the Gasoline in Fuel.

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