AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Bovey Tracey: How It Occurs and How to Stop It
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? In that case set this page down a moment, leave your ignition and motor off, and phone 0333 366 0103. In Bovey Tracey, finding it before the engine runs normally means a drain and a thorough flush where it stands. Not happened yet? Below, the page covers the why it happens and the how to prevent it for good.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
Many newer diesels in Heathfield, like those in Bovey Tracey, carry on two liquids; your motor gets just the diesel. AdBlue goes to the exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Every tank has one filler of its own. On a lot of cars the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in your boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is filled at the petrol pump all the time. Far less frequently, the AdBlue side is topped up — normally from a bottle, by someone thinking about where it goes. It's in that gap that the slip happens.
Bovey Tracey: how AdBlue in your diesel tank occurs
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a message from the vehicle, and letting it run dry means limp mode — so a rushed top-up, perhaps before work off Abbey Road, perhaps outside Cromwell Arms on the way home after work.
New-to-you vehicles come next, too. Rentals, new cars and company cars put their fillers differently, and habit goes for the cap used on the old one.
A spouted bottle finds no obstacle at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. And so the pour, after begun, carries on. It's a few seconds, whether out in Brimley or bang in the heart of Bovey Tracey.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
Whether a Bovey Tracey forecourt or a driveway out in Chudleigh Knighton, take a couple of seconds over these before anything goes in.
- Read the cap instead of going by where it sits: AdBlue ones are frequently blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps normally aren't.
- On many motors, size tells: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- A label inside your fuel flap often shows which fuel goes where, on many vehicles. 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 tells you which.
- The person who drove the vehicle last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park at Newton Abbot, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
Anywhere in Devon the light comes on, this is a routine for that day.
- Not in a rush on the side of Hind Street, not on a slope, not with your engine running: park and switch off first.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it does the trick.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave the vehicle on.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check a second time. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the car.
Find at the second or third stage that AdBlue went in the diesel filler? That is where you stop. Leave out step five entirely.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, in Bovey Tracey?
The short order of things, beginning with no starting the motor. The fuel pump runs on many diesels as soon as the ignition goes on — so keep it off. Diluting it with extra diesel won't work, because AdBlue settles to the bottom rather than blending — and that is where the fuel is pulled from.
Ask the attendants to help roll your car clear of the pump if you're on a forecourt — the Texaco, the BP or somewhere else. Leave it where it is if you are on your own driveway in Bovey Tracey.
When your engine has run already, stop safely and switch the vehicle off. The next exit means the place to leave if you're on the M5, under 10 miles from Bovey Tracey. A short hop across Bovey Tracey is a smaller job than a run towards Exeter, under 15 miles away, so tell us about how far it went.
When our engineers turn up around Bovey Tracey, what occurs?
Outside Bovey Tracey Academy, near Cromwell's Arch or on your own drive: wherever the car has stopped, we come to it. The answers determine this work and the quote, and so our technicians ask what was put in, roughly how much, and if it has run. During the call itself, you are told our quote — before anything else.
Draining your tank comes next, followed by a thorough flush of your system. Not like petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and attacks certain fuel-system metals, and neither clears away unaided. Hence it counts more. The filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the vehicle is tested. Before we leave, we fire it up and make sure that it is running properly.
Most jobs are done in roughly half an hour once our technicians get there, as long as the motor hasn't run — and the pumps our technicians use are safe on a busy forecourt yet quiet at night beside a house. Your insurer usually wants the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and both are yours at the end. Payment comes on the day, with no money upfront. Wrong-fuel cover is part of many insurance policies — so use the wait to look at yours.
About Bovey Tracey, for a moment
Bovey Tracey is a town situated on the River Bovey in Devon, with a mix of old and new buildings and a population of around 4960 people. Bovey Tracey sits at an elevation of approximately 40 metres, near the edge of Dartmoor National Park, and is close to nearby places such as Brimley and Hawkmoor Park. Bovey Tracey has a range of housing, predominantly detached homes, and is located about 10.9 miles from Exeter. Bovey Tracey is also about 166.5 miles from London, making it a relatively remote town in the South West region.
Bovey Tracey and Devon: AdBlue drains across the area
Hawkmoor Park and Hennock are among the towns near Bovey Tracey, a riverside town, that the same teams cover, over TQ postcodes. Quote a postcode that starts TQ13 9, and the van gets there fastest.
Your car does not need to shift. The drain takes place on the spot, whether a driveway, a road by Bovey Tracey Library, or a lay-by towards Mill Marsh Park. Awkward to explain, like the back of Bovey Tracey Youth Cafe? Close to a border? Asking beats guessing, and so phone.
In short, for Bovey Tracey people
Pour nothing until you have read the cap. Even so AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can drain it where it is, anywhere in Devon: keep it off then call 0333 366 0103.