{
    "dataset": "Misfuelling research bibliography",
    "version": "2026.1",
    "date_modified": "2026-10-09",
    "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "canonical_url": "https://wrongfuel.co.uk/data/misfuelling-sources",
    "cite_as": "UK Wrong Fuel Repository, Misfuelling research bibliography, v2026.1, https://wrongfuel.co.uk/data/misfuelling-sources",
    "count": 11,
    "rows": [
        {
            "id": "adams2007",
            "grade": "peer-reviewed",
            "authors": "Adams, P. and David, G.C.",
            "title": "Light vehicle fuelling errors in the UK: the nature of the problem, its consequences and prevention",
            "publisher": "Applied Ergonomics, Volume 38, Issue 5",
            "year": 2007,
            "url": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2006.10.008",
            "note": "The foundational academic study of UK misfuelling. Hierarchical task analysis of the fuelling task plus interviews with 23 drivers who had misfuelled against a control group of 17. Establishes misfuelling as a predictable error pathway created by forecourt conditions rather than individual carelessness."
        },
        {
            "id": "mikkonen2013",
            "grade": "technical-paper",
            "authors": "Mikkonen, S. and Engman, A.",
            "title": "Misfueling: what if gasoline is fueled into a diesel car and vice versa?",
            "publisher": "SAE Technical Papers",
            "year": 2013,
            "url": "https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/2013-01-2678/",
            "note": "Direct engineering treatment of both misfuel directions and their effect on fuel-system components."
        },
        {
            "id": "mikkonen1996",
            "grade": "technical-paper",
            "authors": "Saikkonen, P., Mikkonen, S., Makela, M. and Niemi, A.",
            "title": "Lubricity of reformulated diesel fuel: experience in Finland",
            "publisher": "SAE Technical Papers",
            "year": 1996,
            "url": "https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/961943/",
            "note": "Field evidence that diesel lubricity, not diesel energy content, is what protects an injection pump."
        },
        {
            "id": "mikkonen1987",
            "grade": "technical-paper",
            "authors": "Mikkonen, S. and Tenhunen, E.",
            "title": "Deposits in diesel fuel-injection pumps caused by incompatibility of fuel and oil additives",
            "publisher": "SAE Technical Papers",
            "year": 1987,
            "url": "https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/872118/",
            "note": "Documents deposit formation inside injection pumps from fuel contamination — the mechanism behind delayed pump failure after a misfuel."
        },
        {
            "id": "agudelo2013",
            "grade": "peer-reviewed",
            "authors": "Agudelo, J., Delgado, A. and Benjumea, P.",
            "title": "Lubricity of ethanol-gasoline fuel blends",
            "publisher": "Revista Facultad de Ingenieria",
            "year": 2013,
            "url": "https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=43028316005",
            "note": "High-frequency reciprocating rig measurements. Reports typical mean wear scar diameters for commercial diesel of roughly 200-460 micrometres, against markedly worse figures for gasoline — the quantitative basis for the lubricity argument."
        },
        {
            "id": "ff2026",
            "grade": "operational-dataset",
            "authors": "Fuel Fixer Ltd",
            "title": "Analysis of 57,047 UK fuel drain enquiries, 2024-2025",
            "publisher": "EIN Presswire",
            "year": 2026,
            "url": "https://www.einpresswire.com/",
            "note": "The largest published operational dataset on UK misfuelling. Self-reported by a commercial provider and drawn from its own callouts, so it describes the population that phones a specialist rather than all UK drivers. Treated here as a strong sample with a stated selection bias."
        },
        {
            "id": "rac2014",
            "grade": "trade-body",
            "authors": "RAC",
            "title": "Fuel fiascos: men more likely than women to run out and fill up with wrong type",
            "publisher": "RAC Media Centre",
            "year": 2014,
            "url": "https://media.rac.co.uk/",
            "note": "Panel survey of 1,463 UK drivers, plus RAC operational callout volumes. Source of the widely repeated ~130,000 incidents and £40m annual cost extrapolations."
        },
        {
            "id": "gocompare2025",
            "grade": "consumer-survey",
            "authors": "Go.Compare",
            "title": "Over a quarter of motorists admit to filling up with the wrong type of fuel",
            "publisher": "Go.Compare",
            "year": 2025,
            "url": "https://www.gocompare.com/car-insurance/misfuelling-cover/",
            "note": "Censuswide survey of 2,000 nationally representative UK consumers, 1,262 of whom own or rent a vehicle, fielded March 2025. Paired with a Defaqto analysis of 322 comprehensive policies."
        },
        {
            "id": "gocompare2024",
            "grade": "consumer-survey",
            "authors": "Go.Compare",
            "title": "Nightmare fuel: one in five admit to filling up with the wrong fuel",
            "publisher": "Go.Compare",
            "year": 2024,
            "url": "https://www.gocompare.com/car-insurance/misfuelling-cover/",
            "note": "Sago survey of 2,129 GB adults, 1,724 vehicle owners or renters, weighted to census data. Paired with a Defaqto analysis of 296 policies."
        },
        {
            "id": "which2024",
            "grade": "secondary",
            "authors": "Which?",
            "title": "Misfuelling could cost you thousands: can car insurance help?",
            "publisher": "Which?",
            "year": 2024,
            "url": "https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/misfuelling-could-cost-you-thousands-can-car-insurance-help-aTMDb1Zt6Ubn",
            "note": "Reviews of 61 car insurance and 44 breakdown policies for misfuelling cover, plus search-demand figures attributed to an Independent Advisor report."
        },
        {
            "id": "msm2026",
            "grade": "secondary",
            "authors": "MoneySuperMarket",
            "title": "This one mistake could cost UK drivers up to £1,000",
            "publisher": "MoneySuperMarket",
            "year": 2026,
            "url": "https://www.moneysupermarket.com/car-insurance/news/",
            "note": "Reports a sharp quarter-on-quarter rise in UK search demand for wrong-fuel terms in early 2026, and a £120-£1,000 drain cost range."
        }
    ]
}