Two different customers at a Sunoco gas station on Sheriff Road in Seat Pleasant say they had engine trouble within minutes of leaving the station and subsequently had thousands of dollars in damage to their vehicles.
“The car started shaking when I'm driving down the road,” Paula Sorto described. “It started shaking and stopped moving forward. It wasn't moving at all and all the lights came up and then shut down.”
Within just a couple of minutes of pumping gas into her new car, Sorto found herself stranded on the side of the road. When she finally got her car to a mechanic, the news was not good.
“They said the vehicle had contaminated gas, which caused the vehicle to shudder,” she said.
Daniel Brown, who also filled up at the same Sunoco gas station, ran into Sorto when he came back to the station after his car started acting up as well.
"I felt upset about the situation because normally you trust a gas station to put the right gas in your car,” he told us.
Read more: http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/29253932/gas-station-contaminated-fuel
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