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Putting diesel in a petrol Hyundai Sonata

17 January 2014

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.…

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Petrol in a diesel Renault Master

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…

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150 Litres of the Wrong Fuel

29 October 2013

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…

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Wrong Fuel Leads to an Unhappy Car

23 October 2013

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…

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Auto Fuel Fix at the Professional Tow and Recovery Show

17 October 2013

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…

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The indiscriminate nature of vehicles

3 September 2013

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…

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Wrong Fuel In Car?

If you’ve made the mistake of putting the wrong fuel in your car, don’t start your engine. However, if you have started driving, don’t panic. The first thing to do is safely pull over, park and switch off your engine.

Call us on: 01256 805612 and one of our specialist technicians will be with you in no more than 1 hour. We’ll then drain the car of the wrong fuel whether diesel or petrol, before providing you with enough of the correct fuel to get to the next petrol station.

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