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Contaminated car fuel has wrecked vehicles in Scotland as fuming owners are left with huge repair bills.
Motorists accused a major filling station company of "negligence" after the affected fuel from a supermarket pump cost them thousands of pounds in repairs.
David Stockwell, from Aberdour in Fife, filled up his 2012 Volkswagen Golf with premium diesel at Morrisons Kirkcaldy on August 9. A few days later his wife Katharine was driving down the A92 when the car suddenly lost all power on a dangerous stretch of the road.
Roadside recovery experts found the fuel tank full of a milky-like substance and, despite the car being quickly drained, its entire fuel system and engine were destroyed. With replacement parts costing £4k - more than the car was worth - it was wr