Wrong fuel in Sizergh, near Levens- # Wrong fuel in Sizergh Wrong fuel in Sizergh? Do not start the engine. Call 01293 248666 — the technician who covers Levens comes out to Sizergh and drains it where it stands. From just £89 misfuel callout fee. ## A local number, not a local building The number at the top of this page is answered by the people who send technicians to Kendal. That is what the word local is doing here. It is not standing in for a depot, because Wrong Fuel Kendal does not have one — the van comes to LA8 and LA9 and the work happens where you are stood. Call 01293 248666. **Village**: Sizergh **Nearest town**: Levens **Postcode district**: LA8 **Road**: A590 **Neighbouring places**: Levens, Sedgwick, Staveley and Endmoor **Cost**: From just £89 misfuel callout fee, quoted in full before we travel **Hours**: 24 hours, every day ## Wrong fuel in Sizergh: getting to you Sizergh is reached along the A590, from the same rota that covers Levens. Rural addresses are a normal part of the work here, not an exception to it. Villages are where a mobile drain earns its keep. There is no forecourt to wait on and no garage round the corner, so the work comes to the car instead. Kendal sits where southbound and northbound Lakes traffic both stop. Calls come from drivers at the end of a motorway leg at J36 and Killington Lake, and from visitors filling in Windermere before heading north into country with no forecourts. ## Where the damage actually occurs Not in the tank. The tank is just where it starts. Damage happens at the high-pressure pump, which relies on the fuel itself for lubrication and has very tight tolerances, and then at the injectors downstream of it. Reaching either requires the engine to have run, which is why a car coasted to a halt on the forecourt is almost always a call-out and nothing more. Once past Ambleside there is nowhere to buy fuel until Keswick, so a mistake made in Kendal or Windermere is usually discovered a long way from anywhere useful. ## Step by step First: nothing Do not turn the key, do not turn the ignition to accessory, do not try the radio. The engine has not run on the wrong fuel yet and that is worth protecting. - Second: stay where you are Unless you are somewhere dangerous. A vehicle that has not moved is a vehicle whose contamination is still all in one place. - Third: make the call 01293 248666. Four questions — vehicle, which fuel, roughly how much, did it run — and you get a price and a window before anyone sets off. - Then we work where the car is Extraction, line flush, fresh fuel, prime, run-up and a check. Nothing needs recovering anywhere. - And the waste goes properly Registered carrier, waste transfer note, correct consignment. Keep the note; it is the document that protects you, not us. ## Places near Sizergh - Levens - Sedgwick - Staveley - Endmoor - Underbarrow - Crosthwaite - Ings - Grayrigg ## What we do in Sizergh - Petrol in diesel near Sizergh - Wrong fuel near Sizergh - Diesel in petrol near Sizergh - Fuel doctor near Sizergh - AdBlue in diesel near Sizergh - Small amount of petrol near Sizergh - Unleaded in diesel near Sizergh - Misfuel near Sizergh - Fuel drain near Sizergh - Mobile fuel drain near Sizergh - Wrong fuel rescue near Sizergh - 24 hour fuel drain near Sizergh ## What people actually said 4.8 out of 5 from 2,190 Trustpilot reviews. Two themes dominate the positive ones — how fast someone arrived, and how calm they were about it. The recurring negative is price. Publishing that alongside the answer seems more useful than hiding it: From just £89 misfuel callout fee is the call-out, the total is quoted before a technician moves, and there is no charge for being told on the phone that this is a job for a workshop. ## Questions we get asked **Do I need to stay with the vehicle?** Usually yes, so we can hand it back to you running. If you cannot stay, say so on the call and we will work out how to do it. **Is there an out-of-hours surcharge?** The call-out is the call-out. Whatever the total is, you hear it on the phone before anyone travels. **Can I just top it up with the right fuel?** No. Dilution does not fix contamination, and driving to a filling station to try it is the mile that turns a drain into a repair. **How long will I be waiting?** Arrival depends where you are across LA8 and LA9 and what is already running. You get a realistic window on the call rather than an optimistic one. **Do you cover all of LA8 and LA9?** Yes, from one rota — so being at one edge of the area rather than the other changes the arrival window, not the price. **What happens to the old fuel?** It leaves with us as controlled waste under a waste transfer note. It is not tipped, and it is not resold to you. ## Who you are dealing with Wrong Fuel Kendal is a service by Forecourt Assist. Forecourt Assist is a trading name of Fuel Fixer Ltd, company no 08520551, a company of Fuel Fixer International. Registered at Fairway House, Portland Road, East Grinstead, RH19 4ET. Fuel Fixer International is owned by Stockbridge Capital Holdings. ## Across the Fuel Fixer network Wrong Fuel Kendal is one of the brands operated by Forecourt Assist. The full directory is on the operator site. - AdBlue in Fuel — AdBlue and SCR contamination - Wrong Fuel Workington — Workington and the west coast - Wrong Fuel Teesside — the Teesside conurbation - AdBlue in Fuel — AdBlue and SCR contamination - Forecourt Assist — the complete network directory - Fuel Fixer International — the operating group - Stockbridge Capital Holdings — group owner Background reading: GOV.UK guidance on fuel.