How It Occurs and How to Prevent It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Bovington Camp
Keep the motor and ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait if AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Usually, if your motor hasn't run, it's emptied and thoroughly purged where the car is in Bovington Camp. Reading in advance? In that case the rest covers how it comes about and how to stop it happening at all.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel motor need its own filler?
Many newer diesels around Braytown, as well as Bovington Camp, run on two fluids; your motor gets just the diesel. The exhaust, not your motor, is where AdBlue goes: dosed into the gas to clean it, from a separate tank.
Each tank has its own filler. On a lot of vehicles the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in your boot or under the bonnet. Topping up your diesel side at the pump happens all the time. Someone who has to stop and work out where it goes normally tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less regularly. That gap is where the slip lives.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank takes place in Bovington Camp
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
Hurry comes from the warning. Your car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank puts it into limp mode — so the top-up happens quickly, before work on a driveway off King George V Road, or heading home in the car park at Clouds Hill.
The old car's filler is where the hand reaches — but a hire car, a new vehicle or a company car keeps the fillers somewhere else. That's a second thing: a new car.
Nothing stops the tip once it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Warren or the middle of Bovington Camp: it is the same few seconds either way.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Look at these before pouring, on a forecourt around Bovington Camp or a driveway over in Wool. A few seconds, that's all.
- Read the cap instead of going by position: AdBlue caps are regularly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones normally aren't.
- Check the size: the smaller filler neck is, on many vehicles, the AdBlue one.
- A label inside your fuel flap often says which fuel goes where, on plenty of cars. Check for it.
- The handbook. If the filler isn't by the diesel cap, it is in your 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 Wool, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
The day the light comes on, wherever around Dorset, use this routine.
- Not in a rush on the side of Elles Road, not on a slope, not with your engine running: park and switch off properly.
- Silly as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew the cap does the trick — after you have found the filler and read the cap.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave the car on.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check again. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Leave out stage five altogether.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Bovington Camp?
Short list, then. Top of that: your engine remains off. On many diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so don't switch it on. Do not top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where your fuel is sucked from.
On a forecourt — the nearest petrol station, Murco or another — the attendants will normally help push the car clear, if you ask. If you're on your own drive around Bovington Camp, leave it where it is.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if your motor has already run. Bovington Camp lies under 50 miles from the M27; there, take the next junction. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Salisbury, under 50 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Bovington Camp.
Bovington Camp: what takes place when we turn up
We come to the vehicle wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside Bovington Academy, close to Tank Museum Library and Archive or on your own driveway. Our technicians ask what was put in, about how much, and whether it has run, because the answers determine the work and the price. No one sets off before you've heard our quote over the phone.
Your system is then rinsed thoroughly, after your tank is drained. With AdBlue that counts 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. Once your filter is cleaned — or renewed, where required — fresh diesel goes in, and finally your vehicle gets tested. We don't leave until it has been fired up and is running correctly.
Most jobs are finished in roughly half an hour once we get there, provided the engine has not run — and the pumps our engineers use are safe on a live forecourt and quiet after dark beside a house. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Wrong-fuel cover is included in plenty of insurance policies — and so use the wait to check yours.
About Bovington Camp itself
Bovington Camp is a small locality in Dorset, situated inland at an elevation of 47 metres, and is located near the villages of Warren, East Burton, and Giddy Green. Bovington Camp is characterized by its terraced housing and is approximately 31 miles from Salisbury, the nearest city. Bovington Camp has a population of around 613 residents and is about 107 miles from London. Bovington Camp is part of the wider rural landscape of Dorset, with its rolling hills and countryside views.
AdBlue drains in Bovington Camp and across Dorset
East Burton and Giddy Green are among the places near Bovington Camp, a small village, that the same vans cover, throughout BH postcodes. A postcode starting BH20 6 gets our van to you fastest.
Your car doesn't need to shift. Draining takes place right there, be it a drive, a road near The Tank Museum, or a lay-by on the way to Blindman's Wood. If you are near a border, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Royal Tank Regiment Memorial, ring and ask instead of guessing.
Bovington Camp motorists: the short version
First, the cap; then, the pour. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, anywhere across Dorset, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless — so leave the vehicle off and ring 0333 366 0103.