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So you have just filled your car up with fuel and have gotten back on the road. The only problem is, you have started to experience some strange problems with your car, such as the engine making a lot of noise. You are worried that you may have put petrol...

When you’re borrowing a friends car, using a work vehicle or a loan vehicle, it can be a common mistake to make to put diesel in a petrol, as you’re so used to putting that fuel in your own vehicle. This seems to be the case with James who managed...

Time is money and when you’re rushing around focusing on your work, putting the wrong fuel in your van can be an easy mistake to make. That’s what happened to Arthur at the ESSO petrol station (SP97LA) in Tidworth, as he was rushing around to get to his next job...

We attended a rather inconsolable customer last week. He’d pulled into his local Esso garage, Bournemouth, driving his 7.5 tonne Renault Midland lorry. Unfortunately, he managed to pump 150 litres of unleaded into its tank and didn’t realise the error until he was told the price of the fuel at...

Went to the rescue of a chap on Sunday night, keen to get home after a long day in central London. He’d dropped into the BP station near the Wandsworth one way system in his 13 plate Golf and made it a short way down the road towards the A3...

AFF had a tremendous time last month in Telford at the Professional Tow and Recovery Show. We knew from the previous year there was a great B2B opportunity to be had, but the organisers had built on the last show’s strengths by noticeably increasing public footfall,

A good example of the indiscriminate nature of vehicle mis fuelling cropped up on Sunday. A Dutch gentleman had been playing golf at Wentworth in Surrey, and after he’d finished his round he had to make his way to Dover to catch a late crossing back to mainland Europe.

We’re always apprehensive about older vehicles that have been mis fuelled, particularly with petrol engines. An old vehicle with high mileage will generally speaking have weaker ancillary components that are far less likely to survive the process of being driven with the wrong fuel.

They do say you should never drive your car once you’ve agreed its sale. Well, there is obviously something to the statement as proven by a gentleman who called us today – he was at first very distressed and ultimately very relieved!

Had a call out on Saturday just passed to attend a classic VW camper van stranded in Devon. The family were on board, as was surfing equipment, provisions and a rather noisy border terrier! Being in a remote part of North Devon it took us approximately 90 minutes to arrive...

We received a call on Sunday evening from a customer who had filled his Honda VTR1000 with diesel – definitely not a good combination! Our chap was despatched to find the customer had ridden several miles before breaking down off the A3.

The weekend just passed we received a call from a rather desperate sounding customer. He had lent his 12 plate E200CDI Mercedes to a friend who had put 10 litres of petrol into the car, realised his mistake, then put 20 litres of diesel into the tank and attempted to...

Another busy weekend – this time with a very exotic motor car needing our assistance – Ferrari Testarossa. Those of you old enough, and those young enough to be into retro US cop shows, will know this car from the Miami Vice series where it became almost as big a...