It’s a very common mistake and is not the end of the world. Thousands of people do this in England every week. Putting diesel in a petrol car is fixable with emergency fuel drain and fuel system flush. It is a less damaging mistake than the other way around. Symptoms of putting diesel in a petrol car could be extreme amount of white smoke from exhaust and vehicle losses power or a complete cut off from engine. It is far more difficult to put diesel in a petrol vehicle than putting petrol in a diesel vehicle as the diesel spout nozzle is bigger in size than a petrol filler hole and might not fit into it but still people end up doing this mistake.

If you have somehow managed to put diesel in a petrol car, the best situation would be not to start the engine, secure the car and car us ” Wrong Fuel Inspector” at +447466802493. We at Wrong Fuel Inspector will guide you according to the situation and out technician will be dispatched instantly to help you drain the wrong fuel.

In case if you’ve already started the engine and driven it till a complete engine cut off, we can still help at much lower cost than your dealership or a local garage. At this point do not try to start the engine again as more you try to start it will continue to complicate the situation for the technician. If the vehicle’s been driven with wrong fuel in it then we can’t just drain the fuel as it would prevent it from starting, so the full process in this situation would be draining of the fuel completely from tank, priming the fuel pump and lines to prevent from an airlock, flushing the fuel filter with some fresh petrol to wash away any diesel absorbed into it and the lest step is to bleed the high pressure fuel pump to make sure there will be pure petrol entering the engine as we try to start the vehicle again.

This process sounds very hectic for a fresh reader but at Wrong Fuel Inspector we see hundreds of similar cases every month and we are specialised in what we do, so for our experts it’s a 30 minutes job to get you back on your journey again.