Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Burbage: Why It Occurs
Stop reading a minute when your diesel tank already holds AdBlue in it: ignition off, engine off, and call 0333 366 0103. Normally, if your engine has not turned, it's emptied and thoroughly cleaned where your vehicle sits in Burbage. The remainder of this page covers why it occurs and how to ensure it doesn't — useful if you're reading ahead of time.
AdBlue in a diesel car, and its separate tank
Many newer diesels in West Grafton, as well as Burbage, run on two liquids; your motor gets only your diesel. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into the exhaust stream to clean it.
Separate tanks, separate fillers. Other vehicles keep the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; plenty of others have the two together behind one flap. At the petrol pump, your diesel side gets filled all the time. A driver who has to stop and think where it goes normally fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less frequently. That gap is where the mistake lives.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank take place in Burbage?
Carelessness rarely causes it. Instead is three things coming up together.
First, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a message from the vehicle, and letting it run out leads to limp mode — so a hurried top-up, maybe before work off Suthmere Drive, perhaps at The White Hart on the way home that evening.
Then, the hand reaches for the cap it knew on the old car — because a rental car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not.
A spout-topped bottle finds no obstacle at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. So the tip, once started, carries on. It takes a few seconds, be it out in Marr Green or right in the heart of Burbage.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Look at these before pouring, on a forecourt around Burbage or a drive over in Ram Alley. Seconds, no more.
- Where it sits misleads; the cap does not. AdBlue caps tend to be blue or bear the name "AdBlue" — diesel caps normally don't.
- Many cars fit AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Plenty of motors say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook shows which it is when the filler isn't next to the diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- Whoever had it before will know. Check as you collect a rental or fleet car — at Bedwyn's car park, say — not once the light appears.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around Wiltshire that is.
- Switch off after you park — flat ground, engine off, and never rushed beside High Street on the verge.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it does the trick.
- The two behind one flap? Then make sure the lid on your diesel filler stays shut ahead of lifting the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check once more. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
Discover during the second or third step that the bottle went in the wrong filler? That's where you stop. Stage five stays out.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Burbage already?
Don't start the motor: that's where the short order of things starts. Keep your ignition off too, because on many diesels it alone runs the fuel pump. Thinning it with more diesel fails, because AdBlue settles to the base rather than blending — and that is where your fuel is drawn from.
At a forecourt — Esso, another forecourt nearby or any other — the staff will normally help roll the vehicle away, if you ask. At home in Burbage? Then your car stays put.
Already started? Pull over once it's safe, then turn off. Leave the M4 — under 15 miles out of Burbage — at the next exit. Distance counts — a quick hop across Burbage is a smaller job than driving under 25 miles to Salisbury — so tell us about how far it went.
What occurs when we turn up in Burbage
Our technicians come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside Burbage Primary School, close to Village Hall or on your own drive. We ask what got in, roughly how much, and whether it has run, since the answers determine this work and our quote. On the call itself, you hear our price — ahead of dispatch.
After that: draining, then a full flush of the entire system. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not wash out on its own. The filter flushed or, where needed, replaced; clean diesel in; then a check of the vehicle. Before leaving, we start the engine and check that it's running smoothly.
With pumps fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs in which the engine has not run take about half an hour once our technicians are there. Paying happens on the day, not upfront, and you are given the paperwork your insurer wants: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. It's worth looking at your insurance as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with plenty of policies.
About Burbage
Burbage is a rural village in Wiltshire, situated inland at an elevation of around 155 metres, with detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation. Burbage is located near several smaller settlements, including Marr Green, Westcourt, and Stibb Green, and is approximately 19.9 miles from the city of Salisbury. Burbage has a population of around 1322 people and is about 67.4 miles from London. Burbage remains a quiet, residential community with a strong sense of rural identity.
Burbage and Wiltshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Burbage is a rural village, and our vans that cover it also work the places near it, Westcourt and Stibb Green among them, across the SN postcode area. Give a postcode beginning SN8 3, and our van gets there quickest.
Your car doesn't need to shift. Anywhere it stands — beside All Saints, on a lay-by heading to Ladywell Copse, at home — that is where it gets emptied. Guessing won't help at the back of Wolfhall, on a boundary, or somewhere awkward to pin down; phone and ask.
For Burbage people, the short version
Read the cap before you tip. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless, leave the car off then call 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it waits, anywhere around Wiltshire.