Emergency Fuel Delivery in Dubai

Petrol in the UAE is sold as Special 95 and Super 98. Putting 95 into a car that specifies 98 is not usually damaging for one tank, though a high-compression or turbocharged engine may audibly knock and will pull ignition timing back. The reverse causes no harm at all.

Diesel in a petrol engine, or petrol in a diesel, is a different matter entirely and one of the more expensive mistakes possible. If you have just filled with the wrong fuel, do not start the engine — running it circulates the wrong fuel through the entire injection system and turns a drain-and-flush into a fuel system rebuild. Call us and leave the ignition off.

A car that will not start with the gauge on empty is not always out of fuel. A failed fuel pump, a blocked filter or a faulty level sender produce the same symptom, and a faulty sender can read empty with a half-full tank.

The distinction is usually audible. A working pump makes a brief whine when the ignition is switched on before cranking. Silence there, with a gauge that has been behaving oddly, points at the pump rather than the tank. We will ask you to listen for it, because delivering fuel to a car with a dead pump helps nobody.

Petrol engines usually restart normally once fuel is added and the pump has primed for a few seconds. Diesels frequently do not. Running a diesel completely dry draws air into the injection system, and many need to be bled before they will fire again.

Modern common-rail diesels often self-prime after a few extended cranking cycles, but some require manual bleeding at the filter housing. Running the starter repeatedly to force it is also how a flat battery gets added to an empty tank. If your diesel ran dry, tell us — we will bring fuel and be prepared to bleed the system.