Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Bapchild: Why It Happens
Keep your engine and ignition off then call 0333 366 0103 now — reading can wait if AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Caught before your engine runs, it is usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is around Bapchild. Not happened yet? Below, the page explains the reasons it happens and the how to avoid it altogether.
AdBlue in a diesel car: two tanks, two fillers
Diesel goes to your motor — but plenty of newer diesels driven about Bapchild and Bax hold a second fluid too. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into the exhaust stream and cleans it.
Each tank has its own filler. Other cars keep the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; plenty more place both side by side behind one flap. At the pump, the diesel side is topped up constantly. Far less commonly, the AdBlue side is filled — mostly from a bottle, by someone thinking about where it goes. That gap is where the slip lives.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank occur in Bapchild?
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and if it runs out completely, your vehicle goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a drive off Randle Way before work, or in the car park outside Fox and Goose on the way home.
Unfamiliar cars are next, too. Rentals, new vehicles and company vehicles place their fillers in new places, and the hand goes for the cap it used on the old one.
Lastly, the bottle goes in: a diesel filler or AdBlue one, it slides in as easily, and after the tip starts, no part halts it. Radfield or the middle of Bapchild: it is the same few seconds in both.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Check these before pouring, on a forecourt in Bapchild or a drive over in Murston. Seconds, that's all.
- Position can mislead; the cap does not. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or bear the word "AdBlue" — diesel ones normally do not.
- The size. On many vehicles the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Look inside the fuel flap: plenty of cars have a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- The handbook says where it is if your filler is not next to the diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- Picking up a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park at Teynham? Ask the person who drove it last before leaving, rather than once the light goes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
When the light goes on, anywhere around Kent, use this routine.
- Not in a rush on the side of Panteny Lane, not on a slope, not with your motor running: park then switch off properly.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after finding the AdBlue filler and read it. Daft, perhaps, but it does the trick.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Finish when the tank is topped up or the bottle runs dry; until then, pour slowly through the own spout.
- Only after that, start your car: close the cap, check a second time, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
Find at stage two or three that it has already gone into your diesel side? Then stop just there. Stage five stays off limits.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, in Bapchild?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start your engine. On many diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so don't switch the vehicle on. Topping up with diesel won't dilute it: rather than mixing, AdBlue sinks to the bottom of your tank, right where fuel is drawn from.
Ask the staff to help roll the car away from the petrol pump if you are at a forecourt — the BP, the Asda or somewhere else. Your own drive in Bapchild is where it stays.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if your motor has already run. Bapchild lies under 3 miles from the M2; on it, use the next junction. A short hop across Bapchild is a smaller job than a run towards Canterbury, under 15 miles away, so tell us roughly how far it went.
Our arrival in Bapchild, and what takes place next
By Bapchild and Tonge Church of England Primary School and Nursery, close to Bapchild and Tonge Village Hall or on your own drive: wherever the car has stopped, we come to it. We ask what was put in, roughly how much, and if it has run, because those replies settle this work and our quote. On the phone call itself, you hear the price — ahead of anything else.
Then your tank is emptied and your system purged thoroughly. Much more than with petrol, it matters with AdBlue: the crystals form, some metals are attacked, and none of that clears away unaided, no matter how long it is left. The fuel filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the vehicle is tested. Next we fire it up and check it runs smoothly before we go.
Most jobs are finished in about half an hour once we get there, as long as the engine hasn't run — and the pumps our technicians use are fine on a busy forecourt and quiet after dark beside a house. Nothing upfront; you settle up that day. At the end, a VAT invoice and the report from the engineer are handed to you for the insurer. It's worth checking your insurance as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with many policies.
About Bapchild itself
Bapchild is a small suburban area in Kent, situated near the coast and approximately 15 metres above sea level. Bapchild lies within commuting distance of Canterbury and London, with nearby places including Radfield, Snipeshill, and Rodmersham. Bapchild has a population of around 1495 people and predominantly consists of semi-detached housing.
AdBlue drains about Bapchild, and Kent beyond
As a residential suburb, Bapchild shares its vans surrounding areas — Snipeshill, Rodmersham — right through ME postcodes and the wider area around them. Our van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting ME9 9.
No need to move your car. Anywhere it sits — near Bapchild Church, in a lay-by heading to Brickfields Community Garden, at home — that's where it gets drained. Guessing won't help at the back of St Giles, on a border, or anywhere hard to pin down; phone and check.
Bapchild motorists: the short version
Pour nothing until you have read the cap. AdBlue in your diesel tank regardless? Leave the car switched off and phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, across Kent.