AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Bodenham Moor: Why It Occurs and How to Prevent It
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the motor and your ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103. A drain and a full flush, done just where the vehicle sits in Bodenham Moor, is usually what it takes if found before the engine runs. Nothing happened yet? Further down, the page covers the reasons it happens and the ways to avoid it for good.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel car need its own filler?
Plenty of modern diesels around Bodenham, as well as Bodenham Moor, run on two fluids; your engine gets only the diesel. The exhaust, not the motor, is where AdBlue ends up: dosed into the fumes to clean it, from its own tank.
Each tank has a filler of its own. Plenty of cars have a single flap for both, while some put the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. At the pump, your diesel side is topped up all the time. Seldom filled, AdBlue usually comes out of a bottle, tipped by a driver who has to stop and think what cap it needs. That gap is where the error lives.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank happen in Bodenham Moor?
It is hardly ever carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
First, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a warning from the car, and letting it run out means limp mode — so a rushed top-up, perhaps before work off Orchard Close, or at England's Gate on the way home that evening.
Then, the hand goes for the cap it knew on the old motor — since a rental car, a new car or a company car places the fillers somewhere your last one didn't.
A spouted bottle finds no resistance at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. And so the pour, once begun, keeps on. It takes seconds, whether in Pool Head or bang in the centre of Bodenham Moor.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Check these first, at a forecourt in Bodenham Moor or a drive out in Maund Bryan. A few seconds, no more.
- Where it sits misleads; the cap doesn't. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or carry the word "AdBlue" — diesel caps usually do not.
- Check the size: the smaller filler neck is, on many vehicles, the AdBlue one.
- A label inside the fuel flap often says which fuel goes where, on plenty of motors. Check for it.
- The handbook says which it is if your filler is not next to your diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- Whoever had it before will know. Ask when you collect a rental or company car — at Leominster's car park, say — rather than once the light comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
Wherever around Herefordshire the light comes on, here is a routine for that day.
- Not in a rush on the side of Sycamore Close, not on a slope, not with the engine running: park then switch off first.
- Locate the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and speak the name "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly. It does the trick.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave the car on.
- Gently does it, through the bottle's own spout, until it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Only then, start the vehicle: close the cap, check once more, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
Find at step two or three that it has already gone into your diesel side? So stop just there. Step five is off limits.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, in Bodenham Moor?
Don't start your engine: that is where the short order of things begins. On many diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so do not switch the car on. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where the fuel is sucked from — so don't top up with diesel to thin it.
Ask the attendants to help push the car clear of the pump if you're on a forecourt — the Murco, the Shell or anywhere else. Your own driveway around Bodenham Moor is the place it should stay.
When your engine has been run already, stop safely then turn it off. Bodenham Moor lies under 25 miles from the M50; there, use the next junction. Distance matters — a short hop across Bodenham Moor is a smaller job than heading under 10 miles towards Hereford — so say about how far it went.
Our arrival in Bodenham Moor, and what happens next
Our van reaches the car anywhere it stopped — your own driveway, beside Bodenham Parish Hall, or outside St Michael's CofE Primary School. Both the work and our price rest on three replies — which liquid, which amount, and if it has run — so our engineers ask. On the phone call itself, you are told the price — before dispatch.
Next: 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 the flush matters 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. After that we start it and make sure it runs correctly before we go.
With pumps fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs in which your engine hasn't run need roughly half an hour once our engineers are there. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Misfuelling cover is part of many insurance policies — so make use of the wait to look at yours.
About Bodenham Moor
Bodenham Moor is a suburban area in Herefordshire, situated approximately 7 miles from the city of Hereford. Bodenham Moor lies in a relatively low-lying area, with an elevation of around 65 metres, and is characterized by detached housing. Bodenham Moor is close to nearby places such as Pool Head and Saffrons Cross, and is located near the Isle of Rhea. Bodenham Moor has a population of around 670 residents.
AdBlue drains across Herefordshire, Bodenham Moor included
As a residential suburb, Bodenham Moor has the same vans as surrounding areas — Saffrons Cross, Isle of Rhea — right through HR postcodes and the surrounding area beyond. Our van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting HR1 3.
The car doesn't need to move. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Brockington Hall Golf Club, a side street near Centuries Old Elevated Cobbled Pavement: our engineers drain the vehicle where it sits. If you're close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of St Michael and All Angels, ring and ask rather than assuming.
Bodenham Moor motorists: the short version
Always, the cap; after that, the pour. AdBlue in the diesel tank after all? Leave it switched off and call 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, throughout Herefordshire.