Wrong Fuel in Car Old Harlow, Essex

Local Call-Out and Roadside Wrong Fuel Repair in Old Harlow

Every single day in Old Harlow you can find customers exactly like you who unhappily have filled the wrong sort of fuel in their vehicle. If perhaps you are searching for a swift and trusted fuel drain professional to aid you, then search no more. Our company is SPA accredited, and delivers nationwide cover for any person who has accidentally misfuelled.

An annoyed elderly gentleman phoned us after his automobile wouldn't start by Old Harlow. "In my urgency to get to my destination, I put the wrong fuel in my car. I didn't really realize till the car began to jerk and then it ground to a halt right on the street." Fortuitously, our fuel technicians are expert in handling things just like this, and we quickly had the customer once more on the road again.

If you've put the wrong fuel in a car and somehow were able to get it home or have broken down on the road - we will be able to help. Our service plan is totally mobile and we are able to come out regardless of where you are and have the car drained, emptied and running once more very quickly - and for an affordable price!

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Listed below are our top services we give to our customers.

AdBlue In your Fuel

All around Essex we are finding an increasing number of cases of AdBlue contamination whereby a motorist has poured AdBlue straight into their diesel tank. This is in part due to drivers not being totally sure how to to make use of (note: it is not a fuel additive), and in part because the inlets for diesel and AdBlue are generally right next to one another on the vehicle.

Well, exactly what is the issue with putting AdBlue in a diesel vehicle? As the product is primarily deionised water, it is nearly as good as putting water into your tank. Diesel and water will not blend at all and trying to run a diesel car on water will not work. In addition to this, the urea is particularly corrosive to the fuel system hoses and seals and is prone to crystallisation, clogging injectors and fuel filters.

If you find you put AdBlue into the fuel tank get it drained at the earliest opportunity. And certainly don't switch on the vehicle - not even to shift it from the pump. Assuming you have started the vehicle you will almost certainly need to have the entire fuel system purged and fuel filters changed.

Water contaminated fuel

Water contaminated fuel, irrespective of whether it's unleaded or diesel, can be a serious matter to deal with in a car - specifically in advanced common-rail engines. Having water in the fuel can certainly trigger idling problems, lumpy running, increased smoke and, if it is not taken care of properly, quite possibly damaged injectors. Water in petrol is less complicated to clean out as compared to water in diesel - largely because diesel is an oil. However we can handle both circumstances quite swiftly.

Remember however that if ever the vehicle has been started with the fuel contaminated with water it will quite possible require a new fuel filter fitted seeing that the previous one will be totally wet and ineffective.

Boat Fuel Drains

If you find you've got the wrong fuel, or perhaps polluted fuel (most typically water contamination or old fuel) in a boat we can certainly get it out. So long as the boat is either dry-docked, or situated close to a vehicle parking bay we can access the storage tanks and drain out the fuel. We've succesfully done numerous fuel drains at marinas and boatyards nationwide.}

Management of Waste Fuel

Have an old fuel reservoir lying in the rear of the garden containing old, unusable or contaminated fuel? We are able to assist you to dispose of it. We have been called out to a number of private and industrial premises in Essex for the purpose of taking away and disposing of fuel storages. We are registered by the Environment Agency to enable us to extract and dispose of waste fuel legally and safely. Whether the fuel storage is an underground reservoir, a portable bowser, or possibly even numerous drums in a storage shed, assuming that we can reach it, we are able to drain it.

Out of Fuel Service

Run out of fuel in Old Harlow (out of gas - as the Americans might say)? We operate a full Essex Run Out of Fuel Service. We will get out to re-fill the car in the event that you are stuck on a motorway, on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere, or perhaps even at home. Our engineers can come out to you with 10-20 litres of the right fuel (at pump prices) and fill up your vehicle. They will deal with the common problems that can come with running out of fuel - including airlocks, vehicle unable to restart, or even dead batteries caused by over-cranking.

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Wrong Fuel in Car Old Harlow, Essex

Wrong Fuel in Car Old Harlow - Old Harlow Fuel Rescue

Yesterday a motorist telephoned us after his SEAT broke down in the middle of a street in Old Harlow. He had by accident put petrol in the diesel vehicle and got as far as the road before being forced to halt. It was still in the early hours of the morning and our engineer, who lives not far away, reached him in less than a quarter hour. We were able to take out the wrong fuel and put fresh diesel back in to the car. "Many kudos to you for your prompt response, especially at 6 a.m., I truly appreciate it."