Life in Nigeria is ironically easy, especially with regards to getting Premium Motor Spirit, and also dealing with adulterated fuel.
The current situation of getting Premium Motor Spirit, (PMS) otherwise known as fuel, has pushed many Nigerians to desperation measures.
This condition has allowed many sellers and marketers to take advantage of their unsuspecting consumers. They feed them with adulterated fuel, thereby damaging their cars and generators.
Adulteration of fuel is the addition of any foreign substance into motor gasoline or high speed diesel, which has the potential of causing it to malfunction or damage its engine.
This is done by many Nigerian fuel dealers (adulteration) in order to make the greatest benefit from the product neglecting the motor vehicle damage and any other harmful effect on human life.
Fuel adulteration affects many, particularly any vehicle using fuel. The emission of tailpipe increases and then leads to an engine knock.
Here are five ways to detect adulterated fuel in Nigeria.
How to identify an Adulterated fuel in Nigeria.
Fuel dries up fast once poured on the ground: One good way to identify an adulterated fuel is it dries up in a split seconds once it poured on the ground. this could be as a result of high ethanol in it.
Colour changes: Though fuel does not have a permanent colour, base on the processing, but when the colour s becoming darker than the usual whitish colour, then you should know that there is something fishy
Sinks Any Floatable Material:Â An adulterated fuel will sink any floatable materials that is dump into it, either by mistake or on purpose.
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Adulterated fuel causes a lot of damage to our cars, and its effects are cash consuming, energy draining, while also breeding frustration.
When your car won’t just start, there’s a possible adulteration of fuel in your tank.
Another way to know if you have purchased an adulterated fuel is it causes a rusty fuel tank. While there is also acceleration problem, idling and starting issues.
What you should do, if your fuel is adulterated.
The first thing you should do when there is an observation of a contaminated fuel in your car is to change your filters.
To prevent total damage to your engines you should also change the tanks as often as you can. Importantly buy fuel from a trusted filling station.
