Wrong-fuelling is not anymore a mistake that is committed by only very few people. The number of motorists doing the mistake of putting wrong type of fuel in their car tanks, is steadily increasing. If you fill your diesel car with petrol, it can cost you a lot of money for recovery. But if you are lucky, you can escape heavy damage to your car or any big expenditure.

If unfortunately the engine of your car is damaged by wrong fuelling, the cost of repairing cost can start from £300 and can go up to £3,000. What will be the actual cost will depend on the seriousness of the damage and the type of engine that is fitted in the car. Car hire/ rental companies can face a big problem in the form of wrong-fuelling. If many of their customers hire their cars and then make this mistake, it can cost the company thousands of Euros for recovery/ repairing. As a result, the car-hire companies are taking pre-cautions to prevent this thing from happening.

These vehicles which are under high risk, have sophisticated rail diesel engines. These engines cannot tolerate too much wrong fuel and if you put petrol in diesel engine, you will have to replace the pressure pump, line filters, injectors and more. This will automatically make wrong fueling very expensive.

What to do after wrong-fueling:

• Do not start the engine.
• Never try to remove the contaminated fuel by yourself.
• Call in a wrong fuel recovery agency as soon as possible
• Make sure the wrong fuel recovery agency is reputed.

If you start the engine with wrong fuel in it,  the engine can get massively damaged and cost you a whole lot of money. Unfortunately, most insurance companies do not cover wrong fuel recovery. So try and stay away from this mistake.

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