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Why is it harmful to put petrol in a car engine?

It is not harmful to put petrol in a car engine, as long as the car engine is designed to run on petrol. In fact, putting petrol in a car engine is necessary for the engine to operate. If you put diesel in a petrol engine, or petrol in a diesel engine, that would be harmful, because the engines are designed to run on specific fuels.