Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Bemerton: Why It Happens
Leave the motor and ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103 now — reading can wait when AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Usually, when your engine hasn't run, it's emptied and fully purged where your car is around Bemerton. Here in advance? Then the rest explains why it happens and how to stop it ever happening.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel motor
Many modern diesels on the roads about Bemerton and Quidhampton carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your engine. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into the exhaust stream and cleans it.
Each tank has its own filler. Many of vehicles share a single flap for both, while some move the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. Diesel gets filled at each filling station call-out, again and again. The AdBlue side is fuelled far less regularly, normally from a bottle, and usually by somebody who has to stop and think where it goes. It is in that gap that the slip happens.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank happen in Bemerton?
Seldom is it carelessness: normally three things line up.
First, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a warning from your car, and running dry leads to limp mode — hence a rushed top-up, perhaps before work off Church Lane, or outside The Horse & Groom on the way home after work.
Then, the hand reaches for the cap it knew on the old motor — because a hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't.
Lastly, the bottle fits: diesel filler or AdBlue one, it goes in just as easily, and after the pour starts, no part halts it. Bemerton Heath or the middle of Bemerton: it is the same few seconds in both.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Be it a Bemerton forecourt or a driveway over in St Pauls, take a few seconds over these before any goes in.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap normally isn't. Read it rather than going by position.
- Plenty of cars give AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- A label inside the fuel flap frequently shows which fuel goes where, on many cars. Look for it.
- The handbook. If your filler isn't by your diesel cap, it is in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- The person who drove the vehicle last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park outside Salisbury, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
For the day the warning comes on — wherever you are in Wiltshire — a routine to follow.
- Stop on level, motor off, with time in hand — never rushing on the side of Wilton Road.
- Find the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and say the word "AdBlue" out loud while unscrewing it. It seems daft. It works.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave the car on.
- Gently is best, through the bottle's own spout, until it's full or the bottle runs out.
- Only after that, start your car: close the cap, check again, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Don't carry on to stage five.
Bemerton: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Short order, then. Top of that: the motor stays unstarted. Leave the ignition off too, since on plenty of diesels switching it on by itself starts the pump. Diluting it with extra diesel fails, since AdBlue settles to the base rather than mixing — and that is where the fuel is sucked from.
If you're at a forecourt, whether it is the Texaco or the Shell, ask the attendants to help roll the car away from the petrol pump. If you are on your own driveway in Bemerton, leave the vehicle where it sits.
If the motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. Bemerton sits under 15 miles from the M27; there, take the next junction. A short hop across Bemerton is a smaller job than a run towards Salisbury, under 3 miles away, so tell us roughly how far it went.
Bemerton: what occurs when we arrive
Outside Bemerton St John Church of England Primary, close to St Andrew or on your own drive: wherever the car has stopped, we come to it. The answers settle the work and the price, so our technicians ask what got in, roughly how much, and whether it has run. During the phone call itself, you hear our quote — before anything else.
Next: draining, then a thorough flush of the entire system. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't wash out on its own — which is why that counts more here than with petrol. Your filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the vehicle is tested. Before we leave, our engineers start the car and make sure that it is running correctly.
If your engine hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night. Payment happens on the day, not upfront, and you receive the paperwork an insurer wants: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. Wrong-fuel cover is included in many insurance policies — and so make use of the wait to check yours.
About Bemerton itself
Bemerton is a suburban area located on the riverside in Wiltshire, sitting at an elevation of 57 metres and adjacent to the city of Salisbury. Bemerton is characterized by its semi-detached housing stock and forms part of the larger Salisbury urban area. Bemerton is close to nearby places such as Bemerton Heath and Churchfields, and is situated near the confluence of the rivers that flow through the region. Bemerton has a population of approximately 4313 residents.
AdBlue drains across Wiltshire, Bemerton included
Bemerton is a residential suburb, and the teams that cover it also work the towns around it, Churchfields and Westwood among them, across the SP postcode area. Our van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting SP2 9.
The car stays put. Draining takes place on the spot, whether a drive, a street by Bemerton Methodist Church, or a lay-by on the way to Salisbury Golf Centre - Driving Range. Assuming doesn't help behind St Gregory's Church, on a border, or somewhere awkward to pin down; phone and ask.
The short version for Bemerton motorists
Always, the cap; after that, the pour. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, anywhere around Wiltshire, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank regardless — so leave the car off then call 0333 366 0103.