what happens when you put gasoline in a diesel car and vice versa

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My sister put gasoline in her diesel car and now she might have to get a new car. I don’t even have a driver’s license and have a rudimentary understanding of how simple combustion engines work. Why is the car maybe dead, can it be fixed?

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A diesel will run on gas for a short time but gas doesn’t lubricate the parts it needs to. A gas engine can’t ignite the diesel because diesel ingnites fron compression rather than ignition.

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