Wrong Fuel in Car Shortwood, Gloucestershire

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Petrol in a diesel vehicle in Shortwood? You are welcome to Wrong Fuel SoS. Call us and discover how we can easily assist you to get you up and running again.

An aggrieved elderly individual phoned us after his vehicle refused to start by Shortwood. "In my hurry to get where I was going, I put the wrong fuel in my car. I didn't really realize right up until the car began to shudder and then it cut out right on the road." Happily, our fuel technicians are expert in working with things like this, and we rapidly had the customer once more up and running .

Wrong fuel Shortwood? We have the ability to service the Shortwood vicinity rather well mainly because one of our technical engineers resides locally and is consequently a stone's throw from the action. If you've got the wrong fuel in your car wherever in Shortwood we'll be happy to come out and do a comprehensive fuel drain. Unleaded in diesel in Shortwood need not be a big problem. We're just a phone call away.


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Waste Fuel Disposal

Got a fuel container at the back of the garden full of unwanted and old, unusable or contaminated fuel? We are able to assist you to dispose of it. We've been called out to many domestic and commercial premises in Gloucestershire to deal with taking away and disposing of fuel storages. We are covered by the Environment Agency to allow us to get rid of and recycle waste fuel safely and legally.

Whether the fuel storage is a subterranean reservoir, a mobile bowser, or perhaps a number of drums in a shed, providing we can access it, we can certainly empty it for you.

Water Contamination or AdBlue Contamination

Water contaminated fuel, irrespective of whether it is unleaded petrol or diesel, is certainly a serious issue to deal with in an automobile - particularly in more modern common-rail engines.

Having water or AdBlue in the petrol or diesel can potentially bring about idling issues, lumpy running, abnormal smoke and, if not remedied properly, in some cases damaged injectors. Water in petrol is less difficult to drain than water in diesel - this is mostly due to the fact that diesel is an oil. Having said that we can take care of both situations quite easily.

Bear in mind that if the vehicle has been run on the water contaminated fuel it will quite possible need a new fuel filter to be installed seeing as the old one will be totally wet and unusable.


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Just had a fantastic night of sleep! 7:00 on a bright Tuesday and I was on the way to help an old woman after she had put contaminated fuel in her diesel deep grey Mitsubishi Montero in Shortwood. She informed us that she had driven away from the petrol station forecourt and stranded along a rural road along the way to pay a visit to her godchildren. I got the location punched into the TomTom and was on-scene in less than an hour. I got to the stricken lady and drained the wrong fuel in the car car. While I was doing the drain she said, "I have been becoming quite forgetful in my senior years and forgot about the car needing diesel because I had only just bought it a couple of days ago when my old car, which I'd used for more than thirty years, eventually gave up the ghost". I completed the job and she gifted me a toffee and thanked me for my hard work. Such a precious Gloucestershire lady!

We maintain full Environment Agency registration and Public Liability Insurance intended for your own security. No matter if you are in an aged rust-bucket or a state of the art high end car we are able to assist.

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A man phoned us from Shortwood saying he had stupidly pumped unleaded in his diesel rugged Hyundai. "Shocking! I can't believe I put the wrong fuel in my diesel car!" It took the technician about fifty minutes to fully drain the contaminated fuel out of the vehicle. He carefully cleaned the fuel lines, filter and pumps and put clean fuel in the car. The customer was happy and it didn't cost him dealer rates to have the job professionally done.

All of our technicians are experienced on the most up-to-date cars and their fuel systems. We attend in excess of 7,000 contaminated fuel removals annually in the United Kingdom (you bet, there are that many individuals who make the mistake - you are certainly not by yourself). Our phone lines are open 24 hours a day and every day of the week. Our technical engineers are on duty at any time when you require them.

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Recent Wrong Fuel Drains around Shortwood

Down below are comments and cases of fuel drains done in Shortwood:

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We carried out a wrong fuel removal job on the drive of a lovely house in Shortwood recently. "I put unleaded in my diesel car and was able to more or less get home when my car cut out." Our specialist went out, even though it was rather late at night, and completed a standard fuel drain and purge on the navy blue Fiat Panda .

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A driver who had sadly put unleaded in his diesel beautiful Volkswagen GTI contacted us for help at the Texaco petrol filling station in Shortwood. He had decided to fill up before continuing on to the local recreation park . "I put unleaded instead of diesel which wasn't a wonderful start to our vacation." It was really no trouble in the least for our fuel drainer to go and do the fuel drain. We hope they had a good vacation.

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Usual Petrol in Diesel Signs and symptoms:

Here's a list of typical wrong fuel symptoms:

  • Lack of engine power
  • Car cutting out, chugging or coughing
  • Trouble starting the car
  • Excessive smoke

How to find out if I put the wrong fuel in my car?

If you’ve just filled up at a petrol station and the cars starts to act a bit strange you might start to wonder if you accidentally put the wrong fuel in it.

Well, there are a few things to can check that will be able to tell you:

  1. How is the car responding? There are some very common misfuel symptoms which can be a good indicator of wrong fuel:
    • Loss of engine power – can feel like the car has run out of fuel
    • A lot of smoke (more than usual)
    • Engine coughing or starting to splutter
    • Won’t start – or keeps stalling.
  2. Look at your fuel receipt. It will state clearly if you filled up with diesel or unleaded. If you don’t have the receipt, you can often return to the petrol station where you filled up and give them the date and time (and pump) where you refueled and they will often be able to give you a VAT receipt.
  3. Smell it. Diesel and petrol have very distinctly different smells. Anyone familiar with the motor industry should be able to help you with this. Or you could even get another car to park alongside and smell the fuel caps of both, comparing them to determine what the fuel type is.
  4. Call us to come out and assess the car. In the majority of cases we will be able to tell if the car has been misfueled before beginning work on it. If we discover that the vehicle does not need a fuel drain, you will only be charged a call-out fee.

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Wrong Fuel London is fully approved and skilled to undertake all varieties of polluted fuel drains pertaining to the removing of contaminated fuel. To discover how we will assist get you on the move once more simply call us.


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