Misfuel Leaves ASX Owner With £3k Bill

CASE STUDY Dismayed reader claims that ASX tank wasn’t properly drained after petrol mistake

- Julie Sinclair

MISFUELLING your car is an easy mistake to make, but the impact on your engine could be far from simple, as one reader has discovered to his cost.

Mitsubishi ASX driver Dave Richards, of Penistone, Sheffield, called Auto Express after his 16-plate company car faced a repair bill totalling thousands of pounds, even after the car’s tank was professionally drained following a misfuelling incident.

He told us that he’d filled his diesel powered SUV with petrol earlier this year, and “drove it until it spluttered to a halt”. Supplying dealer Harratts in Barnsley drained the tank. But one week and 500 miles later, the ASX broke down again.