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When your car is sputtering, making pinging sounds or its of sluggish when driving, you may have bad gas. Even though contaminated gasoline is not very common. It does get into the tanks of unsuspecting drivers vehicles more often than you might think. Bad gas in your cars engine can have damaging effects
Bad gas is fuel that doesn’t combust properly. The Symptoms include:
Your cars engine gets power from an ignition process that depends upon fine fuel vapors injected into the combustion chamber. When this process is not optimal the vapors do not combust properly and the ignition is interrupted. Leading to subpar engine performance. In exceptional cases it can lead to engine damage.
There are many places that gas contamination can occur, at the refinery, during transportation or at the gas station. Delivery or storage issues such as a corroded underground tank or an insufficiently sealed vehicle gas cap are the main culprits of water contamination. Smaller sediment particles not filtered by the fuel nozzle can build up over time on engine parts and clog fuel injectors. Typically gasoline has 10% ethanol by content. Ethanol attracts water molecules, but a few drops won’t necessarily hurt your engine. Greater water content from issues related to delivery and storage, or the fueling itself could be a potential problem.
Filling up with a lower octane gas than your vehicle requires or using old gas that has broken down over time also causes problems. Gasoline is a mixture of several different substances and over time it can break into its various elements. These elements include fuels and solvents that aid in your vehicles combustion process.
If you believe that you have purchase bad gas then check first with the station where you think you may have bought the fuel. They may have had other customers who have also contacted them about the same problem. Do not try to diagnose your vehicles engine problems on your own. A proper diagnosis is best done by a licensed mechanic. Your mechanic will analyze the fuel in your vehicle to determine its content. If the problem is minor, adding octane booster or a higher octane fuel to your gas tank may be sufficient. If there is a small amount of water in the gas tank you can add dry gas to solve the problem. When the problem is more severe, you may need to have the gas tank drained and the engine flushed.