Filled my truck up Thursday evening after work. Made it about 5 miles from the station, then got a service engine light, pre collision assist shut off(?) and the truck reduced power to save itself I guess.
Assuming there was water in the station fuel tank, how bad is the situation?
Dropped the truck at my dealership and because they are backed up, said it could be a couple of weeks before they can look at it. Truck is a 2021 5.0 XLT with just over 20k miles on it, I've had it since last March.
I've also used this station on more than one occasion. Also made a claim with my insurance at the service advisor's suggestion, should have an adjuster out next week.

 

Claim with your insurance?

 

If you are dead certain you without a doubt have water in your fuel (which almost never happens), there should be other shops in your area that can also remove your fuel tank.
Gas tank removal is not isolated to a dealership skillset.

If you want warranty, well you first have to know the problem. You can get codes read from a parts store -start there and see what direction the codes can provide you.

Also make an attempt to contact the gas station to find out if there have been multiple claims of others not making it very far are filling up at their station.

You are not at all the first person to have the symptoms you listed and probably none of them are 10 minutes from fueling.


What happens with an insurance claim if/when it has been determined it is not fuel related? The claim just dissolves and you pay out of pocket or warranty for any repairs?

 

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The message you described has nothing to do with contaminated fuel.

 

His truck went into limp mode. When that happens, the collision avoidance (and usually a whole bunch of stuff) is deactivated.

It wouldn’t be that hard to suck out all the fuel from a tank without dropping the fuel tank from the truck. Finding a place to put 36 gallons of potentially contaminated fuel might be a challenge.

On brand new truck, taking it to the dealer might be the best thing to do though. Kinda depends on what the issue is.

Contacting the gas station to see if they have other reported issues is the first thing I’d do as well.

 

I wouldn't file an insurance claim for what I believe is nothing more than bad fuel. This is almost like filling a claim for a flat tire, the cost to remedy the situation is going to be so low there is likely no point in getting your insurance involved and slowing down the repair process. I would have started by having someone take a fuel sample so you at least know if you're on the right track. Contaminated fuel will be very obvious, and assuming the contamination is just water or ethanol (these are the most common issues), the fix is simply draining the tank and refilling it.

If your fuel tank is full of water, I wouldn't wait weeks for someone to drain it out either. A good shop should have you back on the road in a couple hours if bad fuel is your problem, and it would only take 15-30 minutes to verify that your fuel is contaminated.

 

We have an assumption of bad fuel, but the codes will tell at least some of the story. Code readers for basic engine functions are so cheap everyone should have one.

 

ANOTHER 'bad fuel' thread? It is pretty much impossible to get "bad fuel" these days, to the level of contamination it would cause engine problems. As mentioned time and time again in these threads, the fuel tanks have sensors and are tested manually several times a day by the operators of the station, unless of course this is 'Dick's Gas-N-Bait'...

The tell-tale in these threads is, "...and I immediately made an insurance claim..."

 

It does happen, I've gotten bad fuel from high volume, branded gas stations (Sunoco) right outside of major metropolitan areas. On one occasion my truck started running awful and lost a significant amount of power just a mile or two down the road, turned out the fuel was fuel of water. On another occasion my truck started pinging at a truly frightening volume (would have turned your head if I drove by) right after filling up at another high volume branded gas station (Wawa) because the octane was well below what it should have been. Both stations had sales high volume, appeared to be in a good state of repair, and had bad gas.

I've also had plenty of cars get driven or towed in with bad gas that had high water or ethanol content. Some of the high ethanol content was undoubtedly people pumping E85 by accident, but some of my customers who came in with this issue still had their fuel receipt proving that they didn't make any mistakes.

 

In our are we had a station take delivery of fuel and somehow it was full of diesel not gas. Caused issues with a whole lot of vehicles until they discovered the problem and shut down to fix it. Point is it does happen.