A few hundred meters is too far with the wrong fuel

Don't drive or start your engine if you notice a misfueling mistake.

If a driver starts the engine with the wrong fuel and even makes a few hundred meters or even kilometers, this extends the cleaning period, and it also increases the possible damage to the pump and engine itself.

It is more dangerous for a driver to fill a diesel engine with petrol than it is to fill a petrol engine with diesel fuel. It is enough to drive a few hundred meters with the wrong fuel in the car's fuel tank. The wrong fuel (petrol) will get into all of the most important parts of the installation and into the engine itself.

A longer and more expensive healing process

When petrol comes into contact with the cylinders of a diesel engine it takes longer to “heal” it and a lot more work. The petrol fumes do not combust in the diesel engine despite the high compression ratio level, since they need a spark to do it. If a driver, who filled the diesel engine with petrol, realizes his mistake only when the engine begins to “cough” and when it stops it is most likely that excessive friction occurred in the engine already as well as damage to the fueling system.

Petrol does not have the same lubricating qualities as crude oil. In this case the entire fueling system needs to be cleaned and in some extreme cases some parts have to be replaced as well. The first thing to do when the driver sees the mistake is to stop the engine and call the tow service.

This mistake of misfueling, of course, can be avoided with the installation of the SoloDiesel cap (www.solodiesel.eu).