Customers complain contaminated gas at Newark Shell station leads to expensive damages

Auto repair experts said contaminated fuel could result in $300-$5,000 in damage.

Eduardo Porta is the owner of Fremont Foreign Auto Shop, which is not far from the Shell station.

He said that while he has not received any cars that were damaged from the incident, he's learned that the bad gas was pumped into cars on Saturday. While he can't speculate on what damaging agent was in the fuel, he did note that repair costs could be extremely expensive.

"These new cars today they all have high fuel pressure pumps... When you put contaminated fuel in there, it creates a lot of damage."

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