Wrong Fuel in Car Shalbourne, Wiltshire

Local Call-Out and Roadside Repair in Wiltshire

Wrong fuel Shalbourne? We can service the Shalbourne region very well since one of our technicians lives close by and is as a result a stone's throw from the action. If ever you have put petrol in the diesel car wherever in Shalbourne we are delighted to come out and do a full fuel drain. Wrong fuel in diesel in Shalbourne shouldn't be a big obstacle. We're just a phone call away.

It was just before 8 pm on a Thursday and even though we were guaranteed a dry and fresh afternoon, it had not stopped raining! Dan and I were relaxing there discussing the sports rankings, waiting around for the 8th fuel drain of the day to arrive. Before long we had a phone call from a lovely women on a company trip who had pulled into the Texaco filling station in Shalbourne and filled petrol in a diesel mint green Volkswagen Golf III rental car by mistake. She was pretty distressed apparently, saying "I can not believe that I've ruined the vehicle! I'm so used to filling my petrol car that I totally forgot I was driving a diesel!" I just told her to calm down and not to worry, and also that these things regrettably often happen. She had managed to move the car to a secure space and, because it was only a short distance from our van, we could find the lady fairly quickly. The bad fuel was taken out so she could get back to the hotel she was residing at. Despite the fact we got extremely wet, it was all worth the effort to watch her drive away relaxed and much less worried. A misfuel correction in Wiltshire done well in my opinion!

Petrol in your diesel car or truck in Shalbourne? Welcome to WrongFuelSoS.com. Give us a call and find out how we can help to get you up and running once again.

Waste Fuel Removal

Got a fuel tank laying in the rear of your premises with old, useless or degraded fuel? We are able to assist you to dispose of it. We have been called out to many privately owned and business premises in Wiltshire to deal with taking away and recycling fuel storages. We are licenced by the Environment Agency to allow us to get rid of and recycle waste fuel legally and safely.

Whether the fuel storage is a subterranean reservoir, a mobile bowser, or perhaps even a few containers in a storage shed, assuming that we can get to it, we could certainly empty it.

Water Contamination or AdBlue Contamination

Water contaminated fuel, irrespective of whether it is petrol or diesel, is generally a serious condition to address in a car - specifically in more modern common-rail engines.

Putting water or AdBlue in the petrol or diesel will bring about idling difficulties, irregular running, excessive smoke and, if not dealt with effectively, potentially damaged injectors. Having water in petrol is less difficult to get rid of as compared with water in diesel - this is primarily due to the fact that diesel is an oil. Even so we are able to take care of both situations fairly easily.

Be aware that any time the vehicle has been run with the fuel contaminated with water it will very likely need a new fuel filter to be fitted simply because the old one will be thoroughly wet and unusable.

Wrong Fuel in Car in SN8 Postcode - Shalbourne Misfueling

Ahhh, that was a great night of sleep! It was 7:00 am on a sunny Saturday and we were en route to help an older woman who had put the wrong fuel in her diesel compact Kia Spectra5 in Shalbourne. I'd been told she had left the filling station and was stranded in a backwater road on the way to visit her family. I plugged the location in the TomTom and got there within 60 minutes. I reached the destination and drained the wrong fuel out of the vehicle. As I was doing it she said, "Now I'm becoming fairly absent-minded in my senior years and did not remember about the car needing diesel as I'd just bought it a couple of days back after my other car, which I had owned for more than thirty years, finally stopped working". I got the drain done and she gave me a Murray mint and thanked me for my efforts. What a lovely Wiltshire woman!

Our roadside assistance staff members are at hand around the clock, every day of the week to offer roadside aid in the removal of wrong fuel from ANY kind of vehicle. We've lost count of how many motorists about Wiltshire who have phoned us for aid with fuel drains.

We deal with your motor vehicle equipped with our extensive registration and insurance. We have the capacity to handle virtually all automobile kinds without regard for if they have been started on the incorrect fuel or not.

Wrong Fuel Assist Shalbourne - Wrong Fuel in Car Shalbourne

A gentleman phoned us from Shalbourne to state that he unfortunately piped the wrong fuel into his diesel metallic yellow Fiat Bravo. "Unbelievable! I can't believe I put petrol in my diesel car!" It only took the engineer approximately fifty minutes to completely drain the contaminated fuel from the vehicle. He meticulously cleaned the fuel lines, filter and pumps and then put fresh diesel in the car. The customer was delighted and it hadn't cost him car dealership rates to have the job properly done.

Whether you're driving a brand spanking new vehicle or an old model, we have the tools as well as practical experience to correct the dilemma on the spot. We get rid of the incorrect fuel, address any complications created by the misfueling, and get you running.

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How to find out if I put the wrong fuel in my car?

If you’ve just filled up at a petrol station and the cars starts to act a bit strange you might start to wonder if you accidentally put the wrong fuel in it.

Well, there are a few things to can check that will be able to tell you:

1. How is the car responding? There are some very common misfuel symptoms which can be a good indicator of wrong fuel:
• Loss of engine power – can feel like the car has run out of fuel
• A lot of smoke (more than usual)
• Engine coughing or starting to splutter
• Won’t start – or keeps stalling.
2. Look at your fuel receipt. It will state clearly if you filled up with diesel or unleaded. If you don’t have the receipt, you can often return to the petrol station where you filled up and give them the date and time (and pump) where you refueled and they will often be able to give you a VAT receipt.
3. Smell it. Diesel and petrol have very distinctly different smells. Anyone familiar with the motor industry should be able to help you with this. Or you could even get another car to park alongside and smell the fuel caps of both, comparing them to determine what the fuel type is.
4. Call us to come out and assess the car. In the majority of cases we will be able to tell if the car has been misfueled before beginning work on it. If we discover that the vehicle does not need a fuel drain, you will only be charged a call-out fee.

Normal Misfuel Warning signs:

The following is a list of routine wrong fuel symptoms:

• Losing engine power
• Engine cutting out, spluttering or even coughing
• Difficulties starting the vehicle
• Abnormal fumes

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Wrong Fuel London is fully accredited and trained to perform all forms of contaminated fuel drains for the removal of contaminated fuel. To discover exactly how we can help get you moving once again merely give us a call.