Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Boyton: Why It Occurs
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case set this page down a moment, keep your ignition and motor off, and call 0333 366 0103. Caught before the engine runs, it's usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is in Boyton. If you are reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it happens and how to make sure it does not.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel motor need its own filler?
Not one fluid but two: that's what plenty of modern diesels near Boyton and Langdon carry, with diesel feeding the engine. AdBlue's own tank keeps it, and from there it is sent to your exhaust, and there a spray cleans the gas.
There's a filler for each tank. Under one flap, next to each other: that is the arrangement on many motors. On others, AdBlue's filler sits beneath the bonnet or in the boot instead. The diesel side is fuelled at the petrol pump all the time. A driver who has to stop and work out where it goes usually tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less commonly. That gap is where the mistake lives.
AdBlue in the diesel tank in Boyton: how it happens
Rarely is it carelessness: usually three things coincide.
On a drive off Dorset Park before work, or in the car park at the pub in the village heading home: that is where the hurried top-up happens. Why the rush? As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and if it is gone, limp mode kicks in.
New-to-you vehicles come second, too. Rentals, new cars and company vehicles place their fillers in new places, and habit reaches for the cap it used on the old one.
Lastly, the spout fits: diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it goes in just as easily, and once the tip begins, nothing halts it. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Boyton or out in North Beer.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
A couple of seconds is all the checks take — so check them before you tip anything, on a driveway in Curry Lane or a forecourt in Boyton.
- Colour and lettering: an AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually doesn't. Go by the cap, not where it sits.
- On plenty of vehicles, size tells: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- Lift the flap and look for a label — plenty of cars mark what belongs in each filler just there.
- The handbook shows which it lives if your filler isn't next to the diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- Check with the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — when you collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside the nearest station.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
For the day the warning appears — anywhere it is across Cornwall — a simple routine to use.
- Pull in somewhere level, engine off, with time to spare — never hurried on the side of Underlane.
- Locate the AdBlue filler, read the cap, and say the name "AdBlue" aloud as unscrewing it. It sounds daft. It does the trick.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave it on.
- Gently is best, through the bottle's own spout, until it is full or the bottle runs out.
- Only after that, start your car: close the cap, check a second time, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
Find at the second or third stage that the bottle went in the wrong filler? That's where you stop. Never go on to stage five.
Boyton: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Brief list, then. Top of it: your motor stays unstarted. The fuel pump starts on many diesels as soon as the ignition is switched on — so keep it off. Do not top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where your fuel is drawn from.
At a forecourt — BP, another forecourt nearby or another — the staff will usually help roll your car away, when you ask. If you are on your own drive around Boyton, leave the vehicle where it stands.
If the engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. Come off the M5 — under 50 miles out of Boyton — at the first exit. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Plymouth, under 50 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Boyton.
When we get there in Boyton, what takes place?
Our technicians come to the vehicle wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside Boyton Community Primary School, close to Church of the Holy Name or on your own drive. Which fluid went in, the amount, and whether it ran: our engineers ask since those replies decide both work and quote. You get that quote on the phone, before anybody heads out.
Then your tank is drained and the fuel system flushed thoroughly. 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 does not wash out on its own. The filter cleaned or, if it must be, swapped; fresh diesel in; and then a test of the vehicle. Before we leave, we fire it up and confirm that it is running smoothly.
With pumps fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs where your motor hasn't run take roughly half an hour once we arrive. No money in advance; you settle up that day. Afterwards, the VAT invoice and a report from the engineer are handed to you for the insurer. Misfuelling cover is part of many insurance policies — so make use of the wait to check yours.
About Boyton
Boyton is a small village in Cornwall, situated on the banks of a river in the South West of England. Boyton sits at an elevation of around 145 metres, with detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation in the area. Boyton is located near several other small settlements, including North Beer, Bennacott, and Hele, and is approximately 25 miles from Plymouth. Boyton has a population of around 522 people, making it a quiet and peaceful community.
AdBlue drains round Boyton, and Cornwall beyond
Bennacott and Hele are among the places around Boyton, a village, that the same teams cover, over PL postcodes. Quote a postcode beginning PL15 9, and the van gets there fastest.
No need to shift the vehicle. Anywhere it stands — beside St James, Luffincott, in a layby en route to Bradridge Copse, on a drive — that is where it is drained. Awkward to pin down, like the back of St Giles? Close to a border? Asking is better than assuming, so ring.
The short version for Boyton people
Tip nothing till you have read the cap. Still AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will drain it where it stands, wherever in Cornwall: switch it off then ring 0333 366 0103.