Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Boughton Green: Why It Occurs
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the engine and the ignition off and call 0333 366 0103. Caught before the engine runs, it's usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is in Boughton Green. Reading in advance? Then what follows explains how it comes about and what to prevent it ever happening.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel motor
No single liquid but two: that is what plenty of newer diesels near Boughton Green and Loose Hill carry, with diesel feeding your motor. AdBlue's own tank keeps it, and from there it goes to the exhaust, and there a spray treats the fumes.
Each tank comes with one filler of its own. Plenty of cars share a single flap for the two, while some put the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. Diesel gets filled on each filling station visit, again and again. Seldom filled, AdBlue normally comes from a bottle, poured by a driver who must stop and think what cap to use. The mistake grows in that gap between them.
AdBlue in the diesel tank around Boughton Green: how it happens
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
On a driveway off Haste Hill Road before work, or in the car park at The Curious Eatery on the way home: that's where the rushed top-up takes place. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue runs low the vehicle warns you, and once it's empty, limp mode kicks in.
Then the car is strange. A hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and the hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old one.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, so nothing stops the tip after it has started. Boughton Monchelsea or the heart of Boughton Green: it is the same few seconds either way.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Before you pour anything, whether on a driveway in Marlpit or a forecourt in Boughton Green, check these. They take a few seconds.
- Position can mislead; the cap doesn't. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or bear the name "AdBlue" — diesel ones normally don't.
- On many cars, the size gives it away: AdBlue has the smaller filler neck.
- A label inside the fuel flap frequently shows which fuel goes where, on many motors. Look for it.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that is where your filler is if it is not by the diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- Collecting a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park at East Farleigh? Check with whoever drove the car last before leaving, rather than once the light goes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever in Kent that is.
- Stop somewhere level, motor off, with time in hand — never hurried on the side of Haste Hill Close.
- Locate the AdBlue filler, read the cap, and speak the name "AdBlue" out loud as unscrewing it. It sounds silly. It does the trick.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Finish when your tank fills or the bottle is empty; before that, pour gently using the own spout.
- Before you start the car, close the cap and look again that your diesel cap was never came off.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Don't go on to step five.
Boughton Green: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Do not start the motor: that is where the short order of things starts. The fuel pump runs on plenty of diesels the moment the ignition is switched on — so keep it off. Topping up with diesel will not weaken it: rather than mixing, AdBlue sinks to the bottom of the tank, right where fuel is taken from.
Ask the staff to help push the car away from the petrol pump if you are at a forecourt — the Shell, the FASS or anywhere else. Your own drive around Boughton Green is the place it should stay.
Where the motor has been run by now, pull over somewhere safe then turn it off. Boughton Green lies under 5 miles from the M20; on it, use the next exit. Roughly how far did it go? Crossing Boughton Green is smaller work than a trip of under 25 miles towards Southend-on-Sea, so tell us.
What takes place when we turn up around Boughton Green
The van comes to the vehicle anywhere it stopped — your own driveway, near Quarry Wood Iron age Earthworks, or by Boughton Monchelsea Primary School. What fluid was put in, the amount, and if it ran: our engineers ask since those replies decide both work and price. You hear that quote on the phone, before anybody heads out.
Emptying your tank comes next, followed by a thorough flush of the fuel system. Not like petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and eats at some fuel-system metals, and none of it clears away by itself. Hence it matters more. The fuel filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the car is tested. Before we leave, our technicians start the car and confirm that it's running correctly.
With pumps safe on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs where your motor hasn't run take roughly half an hour once our engineers are there. No money upfront; you settle up on the day. Afterwards, a VAT invoice and the report from the engineer go to you for the insurer. Before we get there, take a look at your policy; plenty carry cover for misfuelling.
About Boughton Green and where it is
Boughton Green is a suburban area in Kent, situated near the River Medway at an elevation of around 102 metres. Boughton Green lies within the wider landscape of the Weald of Kent, close to nearby places such as Boughton Monchelsea and Loose. Boughton Green has a population of approximately 1274 people, predominantly living in semi-detached housing. Boughton Green is located near the town of Maidstone, and is also within commuting distance of London and Southend-on-Sea.
AdBlue drains in Boughton Green and across Kent
Cock Street and Loose are among the towns around Boughton Green, a residential suburb, that the same teams cover, over ME postcodes. Our van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting ME17 4.
Your car remains put. We drain it where it is — a side street near Boughton Monchelsea Village Hall, a lay-by on the way to Boughton Monchelsea Recreation Ground, a driveway. Tricky to explain, like the back of All Saints? Close to a border? Asking beats assuming, and so phone.
The short version for Boughton Green motorists
Read the cap before you pour. Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, anywhere in Kent, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank anyway — so leave the car off then call 0333 366 0103.