FUELISH BEHAVIOUR AT THE PUMP COSTS MOTORISTS £60 MILLION A YEAR
British motorists are unnecessarily paying out over £60 million a year in wasted fuel, repairs and follow-on costs after mistakenly putting the wrong fuel in their cars at the pump.New figures from Halfords Autocentres reveal that, as many as 123,000 vehicles a year in the UK suffer a ‘mis-fuelling mishap’ – in many cases leaving them with a hefty bill from £500 to over £3000. Whilst the rising cost of motoring means that 47% of drivers spend most of their disposable income on motoring, in the last 12 months a motorist has put the wrong fuel in their car approximately once every 4