a cap was accidentally left off the fuel tank for the pumps and it caused about 370 gallons water to get into the gas. About 10 drivers filled up with it and local experts said they could be looking at serious damage.
“It can cause damage pretty much instantaneously,” Long Lewis Ford of Hoover Shop Foreman Edgar Barron said. “Usually water in the fuel can cause you starting issues. Driving down the road, it can start hesitating, skipping, not surging, or not running correctly. That’s what you run into with water in it.”
Barron said the amount of water damage to your car depends on how much gas was in your tank, but he said the problems usually start instantly.
Read more: https://www.wbrc.com/2022/03/25/local-drivers-accidentally-fill-up-watery-gas-experts-say-it-can-cause-expensive-repairs/