Making mistakes when filling up with petrol can damage your car, so here are some tips you should follow for the sake of your engine and your wallet. As with any human activity, filling up your car's fuel tank is subject to human error, which in this case can cause irreversible damage to your engine, resulting in unforeseen expenses, so it is important that you pay attention to the following text, in which we will detail some very common mistakes when refuelling your car.
In theory, we should have no problem getting petrol at the nearest fuel station and waiting for them to serve us the amount of fuel we choose according to our needs or monetary possibilities at that moment. The reality is that filling up with petrol should not be a problem, especially if we know our car and we are guided by what the owner's manual recommends, especially in some countries where, in addition to diesel, which is still not very common in regular cars, there are only two types of petrol, no matter what brand of distributor you are with.
1- Type of petrol
To make a mistake in the type of gasoline could be something very unlikely if we take into account that practically every car of this century already uses Premium gasoline, with its few exceptions, which still use Regular gasoline. But let's go by parts, these two types of gasoline are the same as those found in any of the national marketers such as Shell, with the difference of some additive, but in terms of octane they are the same.
2- Never overfill the tank
It is very common to see people at petrol stations, especially taxi drivers and service drivers, moving their cars when filling up with fuel with the idea that "more" fuel will go in, which often results in the liquid just spilling out and being wasted.
3- Put the phone away
In the past, petrol stations had signs prohibiting smoking when filling up with petrol, but nowadays there are many signs prohibiting the use of a mobile phone while in the service station, regardless of the function it is being used for at the time
