Quite often a car does not break down immediately after a misfueling, assuming you’ve driven to a petrol station to buy your fuel – your cars engine will be hot, and a warm engine copes with wrong fuel much better than a cold engine.
This is the reason we attend so many call outs to peoples houses, or work places, – typically someone would misfuel, drive home without noticing, and then the car would refuse to start again from cold – often the next day.
Don’t worry, if you are reading this and you have a diesel car outside that wont start because of a wrong fueling – it most likely isn’t ruined , it just doesnt like petrol.
Diesel engines work on a compression ignition, the diesel fuel gets squashed in the piston until it auto ignites, this is what gives diesels better efficiency = the fuel burns at exactly the right time every time, Petrol ignites when a spark plug sparks, petrol is refined in such a way that it does not ignite under pressure – but waits for a spark, so the reason your diesel car refuses to start with the wrong fuel is simply because petrol will not ignite without a spark, so calm down, your car isn’t wrecked – its just got the wrong fuel in it.
In the case of a car that has been driven with the wrong fuel we perform a standard fuel drain and remove the contaminated fuel that is in the tank, we then open the fuel lines as close to the engine as we can and then suck out the remaining bad fuel with our fuel scavenging equiptment, finally we put the correct fuel in and draw this up to the engine with our pump, so when we start the car – the correct fuel is injected into the pistons.
This is where our experience and expertise comes in, there is some magic sauce and know how to quickly and safely getting a car started after a misfuel, if it is done wrong, or by an enthusiastic DIY mechanic – starter motors can get burnt out, fuel lines not reconnected properly, batteries flattened, or at worst a fire.
If you have misfuelled and your car won’t start, call us, or any experienced fuel draining mechanic, its a simple fix and takes less than an hour.
Fuelfixer.co.uk are mobile fuel drain operatives who work all over south London & south of England 24 hours 7 days a week, we come to you and have experience in draining all types of cars and vans. We service the entirety of London, including all boroughs, if you have put petrol in your diesel or wrong fuel in Fulham, Kensington Chelsea, Belgravia, Marylebone, or the west end we can service you. If you have put petrol in diesel in Potters Bar, Enfield, Barnet, Findsbury Park, Camden, Cockfosters, Finchley, Hampstead, Harrow, Highbury, Highgate, Islington, Kilburn, Regents Park, Seven Sisters, Southgate, or Stoke Newington, call now. We remove petrol in diesel cars in St John’s Wood, or Tottenham, these are some examples of where we do fuel draining, Also we do fuel drains in Hertfordshire, or Acton, Addelston, Chiswick, wrong fuel evacuations in Ealing, Shepherds Bush, and Uxbridge are examples of areas we cover. If your in doubt just give us a call or fill in on line form. We’ll get back to you within 30 minutes. Petron in your diesel? then call Fuelfixer now, we remove petrol in diesel cars in Battersea, Brixton, and Epsom, Ewell, Kingston-Upon-Thames, Kew, Hounslow, Richmond, Pimlico, Putney, Westminster, Wandsworth, Twickenham, and also Tooting are examples of areas we take the wrong fuel out of vehicles in South West London. Petrol in diesel in East London - examples of where we take petrol out of diesel vehicles are Barking, West Ham, Bethnal Green, Bromley, Canning Town, Clapton, and Dagenwood, if you have put the wrong fuel in Dalston, East End, East Ham, East London, Forest gate, Hackney, Leyton, Leytonstone, Woolich, Plaistow, Romford, Stratford, Upton Park, Walthamstow, Westham, or Whitechapel we service this areas and their surroundings. If you have put petrol in diesel in South East London we do Mobile fuel drains, misfuel correction, fuel evacuation in fuel drains are provided in Addington, Balham, Beckenham, Brentford, Brompton, Camberwell, Chiselhurst, and wrong fuel Chessington, Clapham, and Crystal Palace. Wrong fuel evacuations in Croydon, Dulwich,Earls Court, Earlsfield, Sheen, Elephant & Castle.
BRIGHTON and South Coast Misfuel correction & wrong fuel removal- If you have put petrol in your diesel, wrong fuel, in Brighton Call Fuelfixer now, we service you area, by Brigton we include Hove, Shoreham-by-Sea, Seaford, Eastbourne, Bognor Regis, Worthing, Lewis, and Seaford, and their surrounding areas.
SURREY & SUSSEX WRONG FUEL CORRECTION - IF YOU NEED MISFUEL CORRECTION, FUEL DRAINS, PETROL IN DIESEL PROBLEM throughout the Surrey and Sussex area. Examples of areas where problem fueling can be corrected, i,e petrol in diesel, wrong fuel, misfuel, are Reading, Guildford, Woking, Leatherhead, Addlestone, and Ashford. Fuefixer removes wrong fuel in Banstead, Dorking, Farnham, Frimley, Chobham, Godstone, Horley, and Lingfield. If you have put petrol in diesel in Redhill, Reigate, West Byfleet, Surbiton, Weybridge, Walton -On- Thames, Worcester Park, Reading and throughout Surrey Fuelfixer can be with you within 30 mins. Call us for a quote if in any doubt. If you are in Surrey and have petrol in your diesel, and you can't find your area above, we can help, we cover it in its entirety. Examples of other areas in Sussex we can service for misfueling problems, petrol in diesel, or wrong fuel are Billinghurst, Burgess Hill, Crawley, Copthorne, East Grinstead, Edenbridge, Haywards Heath, Maidenbower, Oxted, Uckfield,Worth, and Worthing.
KENT WRONG FUEL CORRECTION - If you have put petrol in your diesel in KENT we can service you, our mobile fuel draining units cover all of Kent. Examples of the areas we take the wrong fuel out of vehicles are - Maidstone, Gravesend, Ashford, Ramsgate, Sevenoaks, Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells, Aylesford, Tenterton, Margate, Westerham, Snodland, and Chatham. We also cover all the surrounding towns and villages, if you have put petrol in diesel and would like to know if we can help, do not hesitate to contact us.