Diesel in 2010 Prius Gen 3 empty gas tank. Drove for five (5) miles. Repair recommendations?

Except that I think there is a spring flapper door farther down the inlet that the fuel nozzle pushes open to accept the flow of gas. Wrong size nozzle won't get there.

 

Maybe stop beating the poor dead horse....

 

Without doing that, it wouldn’t be priuschat.

 

that pic was from my gen3 2010 prius, so it should be the same as all MY 2010-2015 or so. Someone else mentioned some sort of safety-flap deeper down in the inlet but I didn't see it with my pictures. I'll check that out again today, but for now, I'm sticking to my theory.

Regarding nozzle sizes, I think in the 15 or so years I had been filling up with diesel, I may have encountered a green handle pump with a regular (smaller) gasoline nozzle diameter - maybe a few times at some small, middle-of-nowhere station. but mostly I recall the larger diesel pump spouts. it's probably even more standardized today.

 

LOL . And there are plenty of dead or dying horses (aka old prius') around here - that we are trying to beat back to life!

 

I dated a flight attendant once. I lent her my Prius when she flew in to visit. She ran it out of gas. I made her pay to towing bill to bring it home to me. If she had even a lick of sense she would have had it turned to a gas station or brought gas to the car but instead she paid the towing bill And I got my car back. To this day I'm certain she still didn't learn what she did wrong

 

Glad she's fixed!
I once had a troop filled up a diesel Ford pickup truck with unleaded when were were deployed to Saudi Arabia. Thankfully, he didn't drive off but notified us and asked what to do. I called motor pool and the mechanic said just put a quart of 10W-40 oil in the gas tank and it'll be find....and he was right! We drove the tank about halfway down (which didn't take long) and then refilled with diesel fuel.