The acute negligence or mind slip towards fuelling on the eve of getting diesel into your fuel tank is the major cause of wrong fuelling. Apart from it, your forgetfulness, carelessness, the lapse of attention or being entangled in deep thoughts maybe some other factors for having wrong fuel.
To err is human and no doubt, mistakenly, we perform some wrong acts which cause a huge loss to us. But the better strategy in such occasions should be cool mindedness and control over our nerves. If you are ill at ease in having wrong fuel like diesel in petrol, then don’t’ be perturbed and get relaxed.
Now ponder over your next way forward. How grave is the issue? Certainly, it is too grave but if you adopt some preventive measures to avoid further complications, then you could have negligible losses. Otherwise, severe consequences could harm you not only wasting your precious time but also inconvenience and loss of money are other threats in this context.
As aforementioned that wrong fuelling causes severe losses and you must adopt some remedial measures to have prompt recovery without much damage to the engine. Before going ahead on the subject matter, it would be appropriate to have a look at the diesel and petrol engines.
Diesel by its chemical nature lubricates the tubes of the engine and also the fuel pump. If immediate action is not taken, the petrol will further harm the cylinders, thus blocking the spray holes. Common indications are loud knocking from the engine, difficult to accelerate, more smoke, highlighting of warning lights, prolonged ignition and difficult to start.
But on the other hand, putting diesel in a petrol tank is a bit less harmful. What are the reasons behind it? Petrol has solvent nature and unable to put lubrication impact. This causes internal friction therein ultimately.
Whereas diesel ignites only by the compression and if you don’t’ turn off the engine, spark plug and fuel system are layered. By this, there will be misfiring and emission of thick smoke from the exhaust pipe. As far as symptoms of putting diesel in the petrol car are concerned, generally following indications could be observed:
Though if you have poured diesel into the petrol car tank, then do not be upset as unlike petrol in a diesel, the diesel in petrol causes less damage. And after having wrong fuel of diesel in the petrol tank, you must not ignite the car and immediacy switch off the car engine so that your vehicle could be prevented from any harmful impact. In case there is gone a very less amount of diesel into a patrol car, then you would be needing its drainage to keep the engine safe.
Wrong fuelling no doubt is increased day by day despite all the advances made by the expert. Our life has become so entangled that we hardly could give a specific time to some direly needed issues like fuelling.
In addition to it, no public awareness campaigns are run by the concerned government institutions like Motorway authorities. There should be proper vigilance board about the wrong fuelling and especially on the petrol pumps, there must be very clear and visible indications about it.
Media should also take it being the public awareness matter and service of humanity instead of using it in futile programming. Similarly, whenever you get your vehicle from some company or agent, be contented that you have obtained all its documents and concerned manuals. Likewise, it is also obligatory for you that whenever you are going to sell your vehicle to somebody, to intimate him properly about the kind of fuel this vehicle uses.
