How is gasoline different from diesel, and why does it damage the car if you put the wrong kind in the tank?
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Diesels run at extremely high fuel pressure and use the fuel as a lubricant. Gasoline does not have the same lubricating properties and the pumps and injectors suffer severe damage from lack of lubrication. As far as gasoline, diesel won’t burn in a gas engine for the reasons others have covered well. The system needs to be taken apart and cleaned witch leads to a high repair bill. Now with direct injected gasoline engine we may very well start seeing actual damage because they run at relatively high pressures and diesel fuel is more viscous than gasoline
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