Yekaterinburg drivers are mass complaining about engine failures after refueling.
Car owners in Yekaterinburg are lining up at auto services: cars are breaking down due to poor-quality gasoline. After visiting gas stations, many vehicles have the "check engine" light come on, and diagnostics show clogged or malfunctioning injectors. Just in the past week, several service centers in the city have recorded a daily influx of 2-4 similar complaints.
"I filled up at my usual pump, drove home—literally a kilometer. The check engine light came on, the car started shaking violently, and there was a smell of unburned fuel. I arrived at the service, and they told me, 'You're not the only one here.' Just in one day, three people came to the service with the same problem," a Yekaterinburg resident told the EAN publication.
Recall that against the backdrop of gasoline shortages in Russia, oil refineries were allowed to produce gasoline and diesel according to the "Euro-3" standard, which permits up to 150 milligrams of sulfur per 1 kilogram of fuel, while "Euro-5," which we used to fill up with and which is the standard for modern engines, contains up to 10 milligrams of sulfur per 1 kilogram of fuel. Since 2016, the sale of fuel below the "Euro-5" ecological class at gas stations in Russia has been completely banned. According to EAN information, the more modern the engine, the higher the injection pressure, and the thinner the nozzle holes, and even microscopic contamination critically changes the quality of the spray. And contamination from gasoline of such quality is unavoidable. Previously, agrarians in the Sverdlovsk region complained about a twofold increase in fuel prices.
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Yekaterinburg drivers are mass complaining about engine failures after refueling.
Car owners in Yekaterinburg are lining up at auto services: cars are breaking down due to poor-quality gasoline. After visiting gas stations, many cars have their "check engine" light come on, and diagnostics show clogged or malfunctioning injectors.
