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  • verb To fill a vehicle with the wrong type of fuel (usually petrol for diesel)

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Examples

  • Try a Google search using 'misfuel' and see what comes up.

    This is Money | Home 2009

  • “It is inevitable that if E15 is made available at retail, many consumers will misfuel — putting the wrong gasoline into the wrong engine,” said Gregory M. Scott, executive vice president and general counsel of NPRA.

    Trade group: E15 safeguards at the pump ‘woefully inadequate’ 2010

  • “It is inevitable that if E15 is made available at retail, many consumers will misfuel—putting the wrong gasoline into the wrong engine,” said Gregory M. Scott, executive vice president and general counsel of NPRA.

    Trade group: E15 safeguards at the pump ‘woefully inadequate’ 2010

  • EPA can, and should, also fine motorists that fail to heed the warning labels on E85 pumps and misfuel their vehicles ----- intentionally or not!

    newsobserver.com blogs 2009

  • But what if the professionals misfuel your vehicle †"and then claim that there is no lasting damage?

    Auto Express: News 2008

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