Wrong fuel in your Ford Kuga TDCi? Petrol in your Diesel Ford?

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Filling up with Petrol in a Diesel Ford is a very common mistake. And its remedy is determined by a number of factors. In case you want to find out what you should do to sort it out then read on.
These are the key factors to keep in mind when choosing whether or not to have the car drained:

1. Exactly how much Petrol have you put into the Ford, bearing in mind that the fuel tank capacity of the Ford Kuga TDCi is usually around 58 litres?
   1. Hardly any Petrol, something like 2.9 litres of Petrol in a Diesel Kuga TDCi will most of the time not necessarily be a significant problem. Experience has shown us that an amount less than 2.9 litres (which is roughly 5% of the entire fuel tank) is generally able to be completely diluted by wholly topping up the remainder of the tank with the correct fuel.
      It is pretty unusual to find a car or truck going through problems because of below 5% incorrect fuel contamination. Do not forget that it's uncommon - in no way impossible to encounter. You can get some cars that will not endure any degree of fuel contamination whatsoever.
   2. Somewhere between 2.9 and 5.8 litres of Petrol in the Ford (5 to 10%) is more of a 50/50 situation. Our experience has demonstrated that as many people get away with this as those people who don't. Whenever you are deciding whether to risk it and just top it up consider that it is much like gambling all of it on black - you have got a 50/50 possibility of it working out.
   3. Anything over 5.8 litres of Petrol in a Diesel Kuga TDCi must immediately be drained seeing as your likelihood of driving with this level of contamination is certainly less than one in 50 - truly big odds.
2. Put Petrol in a Diesel Ford and drove it: Have you detected any kind of performance issues ever since putting the incorrect fuel in your Kuga TDCi? In that case, have it removed irrespective of the amount of Petrol or even the contamination percentage. Proceeding to run driving an automobile that is currently starting to suffer from the consequences of wrong fuel contamination will only result in increasing amounts of harm being done to your fuel system components.
3. Would you like reassurance?
   Then get it removed. Whatever the contamination percentage, there is inevitably some amount of danger connected with operating a Diesel vehicle on Diesel contaminated with Petrol. Likely outcomes of driving on the incorrect fuel include things like the engine refusing to start, running unevenly, decrease in power, wearing of the high-pressure pump, worn or blocked injectors, and so on. These are a few of the commonest Petrol in Diesel signs or symptoms, and if you detect any of them then stop and get it drained right away.

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