OneJay

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I'm putting this here because it is a question about my friend's Ford Explorer. In a nutshell, he put a can of this into his gas tank by accident instead of mixing it with his oil. Will this have any ill effects on the car?

Faymester

First off: I don't know.

but! If it were me and I put something I was concerned about into my gas tank, I would be syphoning the tank.

ivanz

Yeah, I strongly recommend he drain the fuel and fuel lines. Did he turn on the engine after putting it in?

I8ABMR

Yeah man I would start or move that car. I would just have it towed to a shop and have a professional do the fixing of this mess. I had a friend who put diesel in his car and had to have the gas tank drained. God he must been stoned or something. LOL

lobuxracer

iTrader: (2)

More than likely no, it won't hurt anything. It will reduce the octane a tiny bit, but it's just other petroleum products that will mix with gasoline just fine. I wouldn't worry about it, but I surely wouldn't make it a habit either. There's not enough product in the can to hurt much of anything. Worst case it's like running a super thin 2 stroke premix.

OneJay

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Thanks for the info guys. This happened a couple of months ago. I was looking for some injector cleaner today, and he says "oh...try this" and I tell him that it goes in the oil....massive facepalmage and posting of this thread followed lol.

Hopefully it didn't screw up anything too bad....