With the number of wrong fuelling cases reaching an all time high, wrong fuel recovery experts are giving out tips to motorists that can help them to a great extent, if they are entangled in any such situation. But before going through the expert tips, we must know the background of the big problem.

Diesel fuel in a petrol car is the most frequent among all types of wrong-fuelling. If we just look at the number in the United Kingdom only, we will see that every year more than 150.000 motorists make the wrong fuelling mistake and the majority of these incidents involve diesel fuel in petrol tank.

Several factors have led to the significant rise in wrong fuelling and the reasons are as follows:

• More diesel cars are coming into the market than ever before.
• Many motorists are switching from unleaded to diesel run cars.
• Many of them forget at the fuel station that they no longer drive a petrol car but a diesel one.
• Some also make the wrong fuel mistake when they are borrowing diesel cars from friends or family when they themselves own petrol cars.
• Modern day diesel cars come with advanced engines that make no sound even when running on any kind of contaminated fuel.
• Foreign motorists get confused with the colour codes of pump nozzles.
• Mental stress and/ or work pressure can also cause distractions leading to such a mistake.

So, now that we familiar with several reasons that are responsible for wrong fuelling, we may try and avoid them. But it is also important to understand why people are so concerned with wrong fuelling. To learn the gravity of the situation it is important to know the differences of the fuel system of petrol and diesel engines.

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