AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Broughton Crossing: How It Occurs and How to Prevent It
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the motor and your ignition off and call 0333 366 0103. Normally, when the engine hasn't turned, it is emptied and thoroughly purged where your vehicle is around Broughton Crossing. Not happened yet? Below, the rest of the page explains the reasons it takes place and the how to avoid it altogether.
AdBlue in a diesel car, and its separate tank
Many newer diesels around Bierton, as well as Broughton Crossing, run on two liquids; your motor gets only your diesel. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
There's a filler for each tank. Some motors keep the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; a lot more place both together behind one flap. Diesel gets filled at every filling station visit, again and again. Someone who has to stop and work out where it goes normally tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less frequently. That gap is where the error lives.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank take place around Broughton Crossing?
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
Haste comes from the warning. The vehicle tells you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank puts it into limp mode — so the top-up gets done in a rush, before work on a drive off Pulver Road, or on the way home in the car park at The Doghouse.
Then, your hand goes for the cap it knew on the old motor — because a rental car, a new motor or a company car places the fillers somewhere your last one didn't.
No part halts the tip after it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Broughton Crossing or out in Burcott.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Whether a Broughton Crossing forecourt or a drive over in Victoria Park, take a couple of seconds over these before anything is poured in.
- Position misleads; the cap does not. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or carry the word "AdBlue" — diesel caps normally do not.
- Plenty of cars give AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- A label inside the fuel flap often shows which fuel goes where, on many motors. Look for it.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that's where your filler sits if it is not by your 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 Aylesbury, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
For the day the warning appears — wherever you are across Buckinghamshire — a routine to follow.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with the motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Ivatt Mews.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after finding the AdBlue filler and read it. Daft, yes, yet it works.
- The diesel cap remains on. Where both sit under a flap, make sure it's shut before lifting the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Only after that, start the car: close the cap, check again, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
Find at the second or third step that the bottle went in the diesel tank? That is where you stop. Do not go on to step five.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Broughton Crossing already?
The short order of things, starting with not starting your motor. The fuel pump runs on plenty of diesels the moment the ignition is switched on — and so keep it off. Filling up with diesel will not dilute it: rather than mixing, AdBlue sinks to the bottom of the tank, right where the fuel is taken from.
Ask the staff to help roll your car away from the petrol pump if you're on a forecourt — the BP, the Kindell Motors Ltd. or anywhere else. If you are on your own drive in Broughton Crossing, leave the vehicle where it sits.
When your motor has been run by now, pull over safely then switch the vehicle off. Leave the M40 — under 15 miles out of Broughton Crossing — at the first junction. About how far did it go? Crossing Broughton Crossing is smaller work than a run of under 25 miles to Milton Keynes, so say.
Broughton Crossing: what happens when our technicians turn up
The van reaches the car anywhere it has come to rest — your own drive, beside Bierton: St James the Great, or by Bierton Church of England Combined School. We ask what was put in, about how much, and whether it's run, since the replies settle the work and our price. You get that price by phone, before anyone sets off.
Then your tank is drained and the system cleaned thoroughly. Much more than with petrol, it matters here: the crystals build up, some metals are attacked, and none of that clears out unaided, however long it is left. Testing comes at the end: before that, fresh diesel goes in, and the filter is cleaned or replaced as needed. The motor is fired up next and checked to make sure it runs smoothly, all before we go.
Most jobs are finished in about half an hour once our engineers arrive, provided your engine hasn't run — and the pumps our engineers use are fine on a busy forecourt and quiet at night beside a house. Paying happens on the day, not upfront, and you are given the paperwork your insurer wants: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. Before we get there, have a look at your policy; many include cover for misfuelling.
About Broughton Crossing itself
Broughton Crossing is a small hamlet situated on the riverside in Buckinghamshire, with a mix of semi-detached housing and a population of around 1306 residents. Broughton Crossing lies close to the nearby settlements of Burcott, Kingsbrook, and Broughton, and is approximately 15 miles from Milton Keynes. Broughton Crossing is also within commuting distance of London, being around 35 miles from the capital. Broughton Crossing has a relatively low elevation of 85 metres above sea level.
AdBlue drains about Broughton Crossing, and Buckinghamshire beyond
Kingsbrook and Broughton are among the places around Broughton Crossing, a rural hamlet, that the same teams cover, throughout HP postcodes. Quickest of all: quote a HP22 5 postcode for our van.
There's no need to shift your car. Anywhere it sits — beside Oak Farm Animal Park, on a layby en route to Oakfield Park, at home — that's where it gets cleared. If you're near a border, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Aqua Vale Swimming & Fitness Centre, ring and ask instead of guessing.
The short version for Broughton Crossing motorists
Pour no AdBlue until you have read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank anyway, leave it off then call 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it sits, anywhere in Buckinghamshire.