AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Ash Green: How It Occurs and How to Avoid It
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case put this page aside for now, leave the ignition and motor off, then ring 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a full flush, done right where your vehicle sits in Ash Green, is normally what it needs if found before the engine runs. Not happened yet? Below, the page explains the why it occurs and the how to avoid it for good.
AdBlue in a diesel car, and its separate tank
No single liquid but two: that's what plenty of modern diesels around Ash Green and Keresley Newlands run, with diesel for the motor. The exhaust, not your motor, is where AdBlue ends up: sprayed into the gas to fresh it, from a separate tank.
Each tank has its own filler. Many of cars share a single flap for the two, while some move the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. At the pump, your diesel side is topped up all the time. Rarely filled, AdBlue usually comes from a bottle, poured by someone who has to stop and think which cap to use. It's in the gap that the error happens.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank takes place around Ash Green
Rarely is it carelessness: normally three things coincide.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a warning from the vehicle, and running out leads to limp mode — so a hurried top-up, maybe before work off Vicarage Lane, perhaps at The Royal Oak on the way home that evening.
Unfamiliar motors are next, too. Hire cars, new vehicles and company cars put their fillers in new places, and the hand reaches for the cap it used on the old one.
Nothing stops the tip once it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Goodyers End or the heart of Ash Green: it is the same few seconds in both.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
Check these before pouring, on a forecourt around Ash Green or a driveway over in Woodshires Green. A few seconds, that's all.
- Read the cap rather than going by where it sits: AdBlue caps are commonly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps normally are not.
- Plenty of cars fit AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- A label inside your fuel flap frequently shows which fuel goes where, on plenty of vehicles. Check for it.
- The handbook. If your filler is not by your diesel cap, it's in your boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Whoever had it before will know. Check as you collect a rental or company car — at Coventry Arena's car park, perhaps — not once the light comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
Anywhere around Warwickshire the light comes on, this is a routine for that day.
- Stop on level, engine off, with time to spare — not rushing on the side of Rolyal Oak Road.
- Find the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and speak the name "AdBlue" aloud as unscrewing it. It seems silly. It does the trick.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check a second time. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
Find at the second or third stage that AdBlue went in the wrong filler? That is where you stop. Don't go on to step five.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Ash Green?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start the motor. Leave your ignition off too, because on plenty of diesels switching it on alone runs the fuel pump. Do not top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is drawn from.
If you are at a forecourt, whether it is the the nearest petrol station or the Texaco, ask the staff to help push the car clear of the petrol pump. Leave it where it is if you are on your own drive around Ash Green.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if the engine has already run. Ash Green sits under a mile from the M6; there, use the first junction. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Coventry, under 5 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Ash Green.
What occurs when we turn up around Ash Green
Outside Wheelwright Lane Primary School, close to St Giles or on your own drive: wherever the car has stopped, our technicians come to it. What fluid went in, the amount, and if it ran: we ask because those replies decide both work and price. That quote comes on the call, ahead of any van leaving.
After that: draining, then a thorough flush of the entire system. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and attacks certain fuel-system metals, and none of that washes out unaided. Hence it counts more. Filter cleaned or, where needed, replaced; fresh diesel in; and then a check of your car. The motor is started next and checked to make sure it runs correctly, all before our technicians go.
Most jobs are done in roughly half an hour after we arrive, provided the engine hasn't run — and the pumps we use are fine on a busy forecourt and quiet after dark beside a house. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it is worth checking yours while we are on the way.
About Ash Green itself
Ash Green is a small village in Warwickshire, situated on the riverside at an elevation of 108 metres, with semi-detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation. Ash Green lies close to the city of Coventry, approximately 3.8 miles away, and is also near other local places such as Goodyers End and Neals Green. Ash Green has a population of around 571 residents, who enjoy a relatively quiet location near the larger urban area of Coventry. Ash Green is located about 88.4 miles from London, making it a commuter option for those working in the capital.
AdBlue drains around Ash Green and across Warwickshire
Throughout CV postcodes, our vans that cover Ash Green — a village — work the nearby places too, Bedworth Heath and Neals Green among them. Give a postcode beginning CV7 9, and the van arrives fastest.
Your car stays where it is. Wherever it stands — beside Keresley Village Community Centre, in a lay-by en route to Prologis Country Park, on a drive — that's where it is cleared. If you're close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Umbrella Park, ring and ask rather than assuming.
The short version for Ash Green drivers
Before you tip, read the cap. Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, anywhere across Warwickshire, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless — so leave the vehicle off and phone 0333 366 0103.