AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Bridge Town: How It Occurs and How to Prevent It
Keep your motor and ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait if AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Caught before the engine runs, it is usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is around Bridge Town. If you're reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it happens and how to make sure it doesn't.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel motor
Not one liquid but two: that's what plenty of modern diesels near Bridge Town and Tiddington carry, with diesel for the motor. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into your exhaust stream and cleans it.
Each tank has its own filler. Many of motors have a single flap for both, whereas some put the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. Diesel gets filled at every forecourt visit, week in, week out. The AdBlue side is filled far less commonly, usually from a bottle, and normally by somebody who has to stop and think where it goes. It is in that gap that the slip happens.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank happens in Bridge Town
Carelessness seldom causes it. What does is three things coming up at once.
Haste follows from the warning. The car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank puts the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up happens in a rush, before work on a driveway off Shelley Road, or heading home in the car park at The Old Tramway.
New-to-you cars are next, as well. Rentals, new motors and company cars put their fillers differently, and habit goes for the cap it used on the old one.
No part stops the pour after it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Bridge Town or out in Old Town.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Be it a Bridge Town forecourt or a driveway out in Clopton, take a few seconds on these before any is poured in.
- Colour and marking: an AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally doesn't. Trust the cap, not where it sits.
- Check the size: the smaller filler neck is, on many motors, the AdBlue one.
- A label inside your fuel flap frequently shows which fuel goes where, on plenty of cars. Check for it.
- Cannot find it next to your diesel filler? In that case check below the bonnet or inside your boot — the owner's manual will say which.
- Ask the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — if you collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park at Stratford-upon-Avon.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever in Warwickshire that is.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with your motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Keats Road.
- Silly as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap does the trick — after you've found your filler and read it.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Slowly does it, through the bottle's own spout, till it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Only then, start the vehicle: close the cap, check a second time, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
Discover during the second or third stage that AdBlue went into the diesel filler? That is where you stop. Never go on to stage five.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, in Bridge Town?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start the engine. On plenty of diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so don't switch the car on. Diluting it with extra diesel fails, because AdBlue sinks to the bottom rather than mixing — and that is where the fuel is drawn from.
The staff at Shell, Morrisons or any forecourt will usually lend a hand pushing the vehicle clear if asked. On your own drive in Bridge Town? So your car stays where it is.
Where your motor has run already, stop safely and turn the vehicle off. On the M40, under 10 miles from Bridge Town, that means the next junction. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Coventry, under 25 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Bridge Town.
When our engineers arrive in Bridge Town, what occurs?
We come to the vehicle wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside Bridgetown Primary School, near St Peter or on your own drive. The replies decide this work and the price, so we ask what got in, roughly how much, and whether it's run. That price is given on the call, ahead of any van leaving.
Next: draining, then a thorough flush of the entire system. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and eats at certain fuel-system metals, and none of it clears away by itself. Hence it counts more. Your filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the car is tested. Next our technicians fire it up and make sure it runs properly before leaving.
If the engine has not run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we're there, using pumps that are fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night. The insurer will ask for an engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and both are yours at the end. Payment comes on the day, with no deposit. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Bridge Town and where it is
Bridge Town is a suburban area located on the riverside in Warwickshire, with a population of around 3399 people. Bridge Town sits at an elevation of 43 metres, close to the nearby places of Old Town and Stratford-upon-Avon. Bridge Town is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock, reflecting its residential nature. Bridge Town is situated near Alveston Hill and is approximately 17.3 miles from Coventry and 81.7 miles from London.
AdBlue drains across Warwickshire, Bridge Town included
Bridge Town is a residential suburb, and the vans that cover it also work the places near it, Stratford-upon-Avon and Alveston Hill among them, across the CV postcode area. The van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting CV37 7.
Shifting your car isn't necessary. Anywhere it stands — beside Stratford Butterfly Farm, on a layby en route to King Edward VI Grammar School Playing Fields, on a drive — that's where it is cleared. If you are near a border, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Stratford Big Wheel, ring and ask instead of assuming.
For Bridge Town motorists, the short version
First, the cap; after that, the pour. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank anyway, leave the vehicle off and ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it waits, anywhere in Warwickshire.