How It Occurs and How to Prevent It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Bickleigh Down
Leave your motor and ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait when AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Usually, if the engine has not run, it's emptied and fully flushed where your car sits in Bickleigh Down. Here in advance? Then what follows covers why it comes about and what to stop it ever happening.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel vehicle
No single liquid but two: that's how many modern diesels near Bickleigh Down and Glenholt carry, with diesel feeding your engine. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
There's a filler for every tank. Under one flap, next to each other: that's the arrangement on many motors. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler is beneath the bonnet or in the boot instead. At the pump, your diesel side is topped up constantly. Seldom filled, AdBlue normally comes from a bottle, tipped by a driver who has to stop and think what filler to use. That gap is where the slip lives.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs around Bickleigh Down
It is hardly ever carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a warning from the car, and running out leads to limp mode — so a hurried top-up, perhaps before work off Spring Park, or outside Lopes Arms on the way home after work.
The old car's filler is where your hand reaches — but a hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers elsewhere. That is the second factor: an unfamiliar car.
Nothing halts the pour after it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. It takes seconds, be it out in Woolwell or right in the centre of Bickleigh Down.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
A couple of seconds is all these take — so run through them before you pour anything, on a drive in Bickleigh or a forecourt in Bickleigh Down.
- Blue and lettering: an AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally doesn't. Go by the cap, not where it sits.
- The size. On many motors the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- A label inside your fuel flap frequently says which fuel goes where, on plenty of cars. Look for it.
- Cannot find it next to the diesel inlet? In that case look beneath the bonnet or inside the boot — the owner's manual will say which.
- The person who drove it last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park at Bere Ferrers, 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 it is around Devon — a simple routine to follow.
- Turn off once parked — level ground, motor stopped, and never rushed by Cann Wood View on the verge.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it does the trick.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Stop once the tank fills or the bottle runs dry; before that, pour slowly using its own spout.
- Shut the cap, then look again — making sure your diesel cap remained shut the whole time. Only then, start your car.
Spot at stage two or three that it has already gone into the diesel side? Then stop right there. Leave out stage five entirely.
Bickleigh Down: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
What follows is a short order of things, starting with no starting your engine. Keep your ignition off as well, because on plenty of diesels it by itself runs the fuel pump. Thinning it with extra diesel fails, because AdBlue settles to the bottom instead of blending — and that is where the fuel is pulled from.
If you are on a forecourt, whether it's the Tesco or the Asda, ask the attendants to help push the car clear of the pump. If you are on your own drive in Bickleigh Down, leave it where it sits.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if the engine has already run. Bickleigh Down sits under 50 miles from the M5; on it, use the next junction. About how far did it go? Crossing Bickleigh Down is less work than a run of under 5 miles towards Plymouth, and so say.
Our arrival around Bickleigh Down, and what happens next
Wherever your car came to rest, be it by Bickleigh Down Church of England Primary School, near St Anne or on your own drive, our van travels to it. Our technicians ask what got in, roughly how much, and if it has run, since the answers determine this work and the quote. During the phone call itself, you are told the price — ahead of anything else.
The system is then purged thoroughly, once the tank is drained. With AdBlue that matters more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't wash out on its own. Filter cleaned or, where needed, swapped; clean diesel in; and then a check of the vehicle. Before we leave, our engineers fire it up and confirm that it's running properly.
Most jobs are finished in about half an hour once our technicians get there, as long as your motor hasn't run — and the pumps our technicians use are safe on a live forecourt and 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. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it is worth checking yours whilst we're on the way.
About Bickleigh Down itself
Bickleigh Down is a suburban area situated inland in Devon, approximately 4.8 miles from Plymouth. Bickleigh Down sits at an elevation of around 140 metres, surrounded by nearby places such as Woolwell, Widewell, and Belliver. Bickleigh Down has a population of around 2993 people, predominantly residing in detached housing. Bickleigh Down is located in the South West region of England, about 188 miles from London.
Bickleigh Down and Devon: AdBlue drains across the area
Throughout PL postcodes, the vans covering Bickleigh Down — a residential suburb — work the surrounding spots too, Belliver and Widewell included. Give a postcode beginning PL6 7, and our van gets there fastest.
No need to move your car. Draining happens on the spot, be it a driveway, a road near Roborough Village Hall, or a layby towards Pick Pie Plantation. Tricky to explain, like the back of St Mary the Virgin, Bickleigh Down? By a county line? Asking is better than assuming, so phone.
For Bickleigh Down motorists, the short version
Pour nothing till you've read the cap. Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, anywhere around Devon, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank anyway — so leave it off then phone 0333 366 0103.