"FAULTY FUEL" alert have moved to stop supplies of suspect petrol

Tesco it self agreed that the fuel is mixed with significant silicon contamination after samples taken from unleaded petrol released from the Vopak terminal around 10 days ago.


Morrisons has stopped selling unleaded at 41 outlets supplied by the Vopak depot in Essex - at the centre of suspicions over fuel.

Tesco, which found silicon in its fuel, is to empty its unleaded tanks at 150 outlets in the South East, but will refill them and continue sales.


Officials said silicon is used in diesel but not in petrol. The mixture of silicon in petrol effects serious problems for engines. This resulted damage of thousands of cars in south-east england.