Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Bayford: Why It Occurs
Stop reading a minute if the diesel tank already holds AdBlue in it: ignition off, engine off, then ring 0333 366 0103. Around Bayford, finding it before the engine turns usually means a drain and a full flush on the spot. If you are reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it happens and how to make sure it doesn't.
AdBlue in a diesel car, and its separate tank
Not one liquid but two: that's what plenty of modern diesels around Bayford and Shadwell carry, with diesel for the engine. Its own tank holds it, and from there it is sent to the exhaust, and there spraying treats the fumes.
Every tank has a filler of its own. Some cars keep the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; a lot more have the two side by side behind one flap. Diesel gets filled on every forecourt call-out, again and again. Someone who has to stop and work out where it goes usually tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less often. That gap is where the mistake lives.
Bayford: how AdBlue in the diesel tank takes place
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low your 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 Stoke Lane before work, or in the car park outside The Bayford Inn on the way home.
Then, the hand goes for the cap it would have used on the old vehicle — because a rental car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, and so nothing stops the tip once it has started. It takes seconds, whether out in Riding Gate or right in the heart of Bayford.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Look at these first, at a forecourt around Bayford or a drive out in Leigh Common. Seconds, that's all.
- Blue and marking: an AdBlue cap is often blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally does not. Trust the cap, not where it sits.
- Plenty of vehicles fit AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- A label inside the fuel flap often says which fuel goes where, on many cars. Check for it.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that is where the filler sits if it's not by your diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- The previous driver knows. Check as you pick up a rental or fleet car — from Templecombe's car park, perhaps — rather than once the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
Wherever around Somerset the light comes on, this is a routine for that day.
- Stop on level, motor off, with time to spare — not rushing on the side of A303.
- Locate the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and speak the word "AdBlue" aloud as unscrewing it. It sounds daft. It works.
- The two under a single flap? Then confirm the cap on the diesel side is still closed before lifting the bottle.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Only after that, start the vehicle: close the cap, check once more, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
Discover at the second or third step that AdBlue went into the diesel filler? That is where you stop. Step five is off limits.
Bayford: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start your motor. Keep the ignition off as well, because on many diesels switching it on alone runs your pump. Do not top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is drawn from.
If you're at a forecourt, whether it's the Morrisons or the Shell, ask the attendants to help roll the vehicle clear of the pump. On your own drive around Bayford? So the vehicle remains where it is.
Where the motor has run by now, pull over safely then turn it off. On the M5, under 50 miles from Bayford, that means the next exit. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Wells, under 25 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Bayford.
Bayford: what happens when we arrive
By Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Primary, near Bayford Mission Room or on your own drive: wherever your car has stopped, our technicians come to it. Which fluid got in, the quantity, and if it ran: we ask because the answers decide both work and quote. You get that price by phone, before anybody sets off.
After that: draining, then a thorough flush of the whole system. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't wash out on its own — which is why that matters more here than with petrol. The filter flushed or, if it must be, replaced; clean diesel in; and then a test of your car. We do not leave until it has been started and is running smoothly.
Most jobs are finished in roughly half an hour once our engineers arrive, provided your motor hasn't run — and the pumps we use are safe on a live forecourt yet quiet after dark outside a house. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. It's worth checking your insurance as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover comes with many policies.
About Bayford and where it is
Bayford is a small suburban area in Somerset, situated on the riverside at an elevation of 103 metres. Bayford lies near the towns of Wells and Wincanton, and is close to the villages of Riding Gate and Stoke Trister. Bayford has a population of around 656 people, predominantly living in semi-detached housing. Bayford is located in the South West region, approximately 102.6 miles from London.
Bayford and Somerset: AdBlue drains across the area
Bayford is a residential suburb, and our vans that cover it also work the places around it, Stoke Trister and Wincanton among them, across the BA postcode area. Our van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting BA9 9.
The car doesn't need to shift. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Wincanton Sports Ground, a side street near Old Faithful: our engineers drain the car where it stands. Guessing doesn't help at the back of St Stephen, close to a border, or somewhere hard to describe; phone and ask.
In short, for Bayford motorists
Always, the cap; then, the tip. AdBlue in the diesel tank after all? Leave the car off then phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, across Somerset.