Advice - Diesel/engine Light/v4

Good news is it’s the right way round as petrol in diesel is dire.
It will burn off, though likely to be lumpy until it does. You need to get it all out and as you’ve started it the diesels in the fuel lines and chamber now so needs to pushed through.
I made the same mistake, but with a full tank.
Got it towed home, drained the tank and filled it up with petrol. Ran smoky and lumpy for a while but all was good after 20 or so miles.
Long term unless the diesel gets in the cat it won’t do any harm. Just panics you whilst your in this mid stage process.

 

short term the diesel wont harm the cat. but the misfire might over time. its the unburnt oxygen that causes them to overheat and crack.

 

i wouldnt say yes and write it on a piece of paper. but it wouldnt stop me.

 

It needs to be flushed through and that’ll only happen when ridden.
The bike I presume is under warranty?
Do not tell your dealer what’s happened, call them and say the light came on then give no further information. They may in the future wriggle out of a warranty claim if they record the bike has had diesel in it.
What they don’t know they have to find out, so don’t help by telling them

 

You may get injector problems in future but they can be sorted easily, happened in my old DisAstra GTE, otherwise limp home red faced

 

Already doing the rounds on FB, so they will know sooner or later.

 

Someone I worked with brimmed his (petrol) car with diesel, it conked out after a few yards, called the AA, they asked him if he'd put diesel in it "do you think I'm some sort of cnut!" he said, then ran back to the gas station to find out who the cnut really was, he got the car towed away to a garage who flushed the fuel lines & gave him a bill for a couple of hundred quid, I asked him how much diesel he put in "about £50 worth" he says, so I told him "that diesel is your property, that garage has put it in their van, go and tell them you want it back & I'll give you £25 for it" When he gets to the garage & kicks off they tell him to check his bill - disposal of diesel £20! When he told me what happened I said "they've charged you £20 to put your diesel in their van!"
He wasn't best pleased!

 

Ok. Fess up time. When I had my V4s I brimmed it with diesel and drove off. My excuse? Got distracted at the pump by a lady who needed help fueling her car. Back to the bike. Senior moment. Paid. Pulled off. Misfire after 25 yards, put it down to v4 idiosyncrasy, 250 yards clutch in stopped. Cranked it over about 5 times. Nothing. Called Ducati assist. Dawning realisation. Checked credit card slip. Slump to floor. Cry. A lot. Then some more.
End result? £380 bill. No damage done. That felt like really good value.
Nowadays I don’t help anyone at petrol stations until I have done.
Your’s will be fine.
Phew. Glad to get that albatross off my neck.

 

I guess this is you then?

 

I had a Toyota 4X4 Hilux pick up early 2000's was in a rush to get to another job put a fiver of Petrol in it as it's all I had in my pocket and tank was nigh on empty. Realised as I paid at the till asked them and they confirmed I'd bought Petrol.

Started it slammed it into first moved it about 10 foot had to ring me brother to bring me some money brimmed it with Diesel right as rain.

 

Oh. That IS embarrassing.

 

Being a Hilux (the vehicle of choice for warlords the world over) you could have probably run it on piss and vodka and it would have been ok.

 

Years ago in the really bad winters we used to put £2 worth of petrol in the tank to stop the diesel freezing on the vans - pre filters used to clog up and starve the engine - 7.5t used to put £5

 

I was on an adventure tour with one of our local bike shop owners, a big rough bear of a man who had taken a 2nd hand honda 650 transalp from stock for the trip. We stopped to gas up and he put 5 litres of diessel in before he realised. He just topped it off with premium and off we went. It was a bit smoky and smelly but went the distance to next top up no probs. He didn't tell us this at the time tho...

 

Dunno. Mine just died then full clean of tanks and fuel system. Bit smokey on first start up but perfect thereafter.

 

You sure that ain’t just your petrol addiction Brett?