Diesel Car Filled with Pertamax, Finally Transported Towing

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – Error in charging ingredient burn Cars can happen to anyone. Lack of concentration of drivers or officers can result in charging fuel wrong. Suppose a car with a diesel engine is filled with gasoline instead of diesel.

As an example of a video uploaded by @romansasopirtruck, Sunday (14/2/2022). In the upload, it appears that one car is about to be transported by a towing truck due to the wrong fuel filling.

“Due to the carelessness of the gas station attendant” mobile diesel filled with Pertamax,” write a description of the video.

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Learning from this incident, it is better if every car owner conveys correctly to the officer about the type of fuel used by his vehicle, such as if he wants to fill it with Pertalite, Pertamax or Solar.

This is done in order to minimize errors in refueling, because not all gas station officers understand the type or brand of car and the fuel used.

If an error like this occurs, it will certainly have a fatal impact on the engine components. Even this error can cause damage to two vital components, namely the fuel injection pump and the nozzle.

Service Head Auto2000 Bekasi, Sapta Agung Nugraha, said that the diesel engine certainly has a different character from the gasoline engine. Therefore, it should not be wrong to use fuel.

“Gasoline engines use gasoline, where spark plugs are used for the combustion process. As for the diesel engine, the way it works is by compressing the air, then pressurized air and high temperatures are triggered by burning with diesel,” Sapta told Kompas.com some time ago.

Sapta continued, if you fill in the wrong fuel, the engine cannot work (strikes) and must be drained fuel tank including the channels.

Important components in diesel cars such as the injection pump (bosch pump) and nozzle are also bound to be damaged, and even new ones must be replaced if they cannot be repaired anymore.