Those who are particularly careless, those who go in a hurry or those who are not practical in making fuel, can commit the sad and serious mistake of putting petrol in the car’s tank instead of diesel.
In fact, just a moment, a few seconds, and here it is it combines a real disaster.
Should you make this mistake, realizing it immediately avoids major inconveniences, because for example you don’t even go to start the car. Those who do not notice, on the other hand, do so by putting the car itself at risk.
What happens if you pour gasoline into the tank instead of diesel
It is not difficult to notice that as soon as the key is turned into the ignition, the car assumes a strange behavior, for example the irregularity of the engine is noted, the revolutions are completely different from normal. Then to remove any doubt, here is the black smoke that comes out of the exhaust pipe. At this moment, anxiety comes, panic takes over the management of the situation and you don’t really know what and how to do it.
Continuing to drive the car on the wrong fuelyou risk damaging all the mechanical components of the vehicle, this happens in particular, due to a lack of lubrication.
Furthermore, the use of petrol instead of diesel can cause damage to valves and pistons, as well as the block of the injection pump. The only thing to do if you were to put the wrong fuel instead of gasoline is to ask for help from a specialized workshop that will certainly know what to do and how.
How to reach the workshop and what to do to remove gasoline from the diesel tank
Obviously, to get to the workshop you don’t have to turn on the vehicle, but push it if it is close. THEAlternatively, to reach the workshop it is necessary to ask for the intervention of the tow truck. Driving the car in these conditions means accepting the risk, indeed the certainty of compromise the functionality of the engine permanently or almost.
If the quantity of petrol that has been added instead of diesel is not excessive, you can get it out somehow. Alternatively, it can also be reduced by diluting it by adding parts of diesel, little by little. To remedy the mistake made, it will be necessary to face a considerable expense, whatever the solution chosen. Certainly this is a much lower figure than one would have to face going to damage the engine or parts of the machine.
