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  1. 10-08-2008, 11:45 AM #1
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kevykev
    ask Ran!
    Indeed. Last year I was at a Shell station where some jack@ss had swapped the nozzles. I pumped my Yaris with about a gallon and a half of diesel. The car ran like sh*t for a while. Sputtered, coughed, and wouldn't accelerate for sh*t. I tried balancing it out with some regular gas and that helped. I got lucky that no serious damage was done. Once it got run through the system, I ran some fuel injector cleaner through just to be safe. Never had a problem.
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