Flush Out the Wrong Fuel from the Tank

You have filled in Diesel in Petrol tank, have you? Well, don’t worry! This seems to

be a common mistake in UK in the recent times. You would find people not

knowing the fuel that actually goes into their tanks or, being in a hurry to get

somewhere most of the times. So, unknowingly they fill out the tank with the

wrong fuel.

Diesel in petrol tank is way far better than filling out petrol in a diesel tank. Petrol

combusts faster and burns out easily. The diesel tank is mostly lubricated and,

filling petrol in such a tank could be disastrous. You could cause the burning and

finally damaging the engine for good by filling out petrol. In case of diesel in

petrol tank, life becomes a lot easier. Diesel is a lubricant sort of fuel. So, it takes a

lot of time to burn.

The two ways of finding out that you have filled the petrol tank with diesel is the

smell of the fuel which is different and, when black smoke comes out of your

engine. When diesel starts burning it does not cause any trouble to the engine. It

just releases some black smoke which makes you realize your mistake. It might just

not allow the engine to work as it cannot give out enough energy for a petrol tank.

So, you will face a situation where your car stops mid-way.

When you see smoke coming out of your car, stop the engine then and there. After

that don’t attempt to start the engine! You should first thing call a drain service

that would send in a professional help to recover the wrong fuel. These drain

services are a call away. Once you have made that call, you would receive service

within a span of minutes.

These people would drain out the fuel. To check recirculation of fuel, they would

then refuel the tank with petrol and start and stop the engine for a period of time.

Once they feel that there is no diesel present in the tank, they would give the

charge of the car back to you. This all happens at a very nominal price. So, recover

the fuel with mobile drain services at the earliest!