As part of our efforts to give tips and guidelines to prolong the life of your car, I will be writing about gasoline today, a very vital need for our vehicles, it's therefore paramount to know some few do's and don'ts.
If you happen to see a gasoline(petrol) tanker filling the tanks at a gas station, come back another day or go to a different station. As the station’s underground tanks are being filled, the turbulence can stir up sediment. Sediment in your gas(petrol) can clog fuel filters and fuel injectors, causing poor performance and possibly necessitating repairs which we really don't want.
This shouldn't have been a problem normally but some gas stations don’t have pump filters, making you more vulnerable to dirty gas (petrol) .
Find a station that you trust and stick to it because some stations may mix their Fuel, adjust their pumps and sometimes don't place the nozzle properly making you paying for fuel you didn't purchase —or worse, water down their product.
It is necessary sometimes to use fuel treatment and injectors cleaner(sold in any standard gasoline station ) to help clean the injection system of the car, boost the octane rating of the fuel and also protect your vehicle when you unknowingly buy bad fuel sometimes.
Avoid using leaded Fuel as much as possible as it damages the catalytic converter of the car, it toxic on emission and cause spark plug fouling amongst other things.
Though the used of Tetraethyllead as additives in petrol has been discontinued in developed countries but it still finds it way into fuel in developing countries.
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