Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Burgh St Margaret: Why It Happens
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? Then put this page down a moment, leave your ignition and motor off, then call 0333 366 0103. Caught before the motor runs, it's normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is around Burgh St Margaret. The rest of this page covers why it occurs and how to make sure it doesn't — useful if you are reading before it has happened.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel motor need its own filler?
Diesel feeds the motor — yet plenty of current diesels seen around Burgh St Margaret and Rollesby hold a second fluid too. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Each tank has one filler of its own. Plenty of vehicles share a single flap for the two, whereas some put the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. At the pump, the diesel side is topped up constantly. Much less commonly, the AdBlue side is topped up — mostly from a bottle, by someone thinking about where it goes. The error lives in that gap.
AdBlue in your diesel tank around Burgh St Margaret: how it takes place
It's seldom carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
Haste follows from the warning. The car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank sends the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up gets done in a rush, before work on a drive off Main Road, or heading home in the car park at The Kings Arms.
Unfamiliar cars come second, as well. Hire cars, new cars and company motors place their fillers in new places, and habit reaches for the cap it used on the old one.
Third, the spout goes in: diesel filler or AdBlue one, it goes in as easily, and once the pour starts, nothing halts it. Whether it takes place in Newgate Corner or the middle of Burgh St Margaret, it is the same few seconds.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
Before you tip anything, whether on a drive in Clippesby or a forecourt in Burgh St Margaret, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- Where it sits misleads; the cap doesn't. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or carry the name "AdBlue" — diesel caps usually don't.
- Look at the size: the smaller neck is, on plenty of vehicles, the AdBlue one.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Many motors say there which fuel goes where.
- Can't find it beside the diesel inlet? In that case check below the bonnet or in your boot — the handbook says which.
- 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 Acle.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
For the day the warning comes on — wherever it is across Norfolk — a routine to use.
- Switch off once parked — level ground, motor off, and never in a rush by Pound Lane at the roadside.
- Daft as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew the cap does the trick — after you have located your filler and read it.
- Both under a single flap? So make sure the cap on the diesel filler stays shut before raising the bottle.
- Stop when your tank fills or the bottle is empty; before that, pour gently through the built-in spout.
- Only then, start the vehicle: close the cap, check a second time, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
Discover at the second or third stage that the bottle went into the wrong filler? That's where you stop. Leave out stage five entirely.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Burgh St Margaret already?
Do not start your motor: that's how the short order of things starts. The fuel pump runs on many diesels as soon as the ignition goes on — so keep it off. Don't top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is drawn from.
On a forecourt — the nearest petrol station, Esso or another — the staff will normally help push the car away, when you ask. If you're on your own driveway around Burgh St Margaret, leave the vehicle where it sits.
Already started? Stop once it is sensible, then switch off. On the M11, over 50 miles from Burgh St Margaret, that means the next exit. A short hop across Burgh St Margaret is a smaller job than a run towards Norwich, under 15 miles away, so tell us about how far it went.
What occurs when our technicians arrive in Burgh St Margaret
Our engineers come to the vehicle wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside Fleggburgh CofE Primary School, near Saint Margaret or on your own drive. What liquid went in, the quantity, and if it ran: we ask because the replies decide both work and quote. You get that quote on the phone, before anybody sets off.
The system is then cleaned thoroughly, after that tank is emptied. Not like petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and attacks some fuel-system metals, and none of that washes out unaided. Hence it matters more. A test comes last: before that, clean diesel is added, and your filter is flushed or changed if necessary. Next our engineers start the car and make sure it runs properly before we go.
If the engine hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Before we get there, have a look at your insurance documents; plenty include cover for misfuelling.
About Burgh St Margaret itself
Burgh St Margaret is a small village in Norfolk, situated inland at a low elevation of around 5 metres. Burgh St Margaret lies near the villages of Newgate Corner and Narrowgate Corner, and is close to the larger village of Billockby. Burgh St Margaret is characterised by its predominantly detached housing stock, and is located approximately 13.7 miles from Norwich. Burgh St Margaret is a rural community with a population of around 635 people.
AdBlue drains across Norfolk, Burgh St Margaret included
Narrowgate Corner and Billockby are among the towns near Burgh St Margaret, a rural village, that the same teams cover, over NR postcodes. A postcode starting NR29 3 gets our van to you fastest.
The vehicle remains where it is. Draining takes place on the spot, be it a driveway, a road by Fleggburgh Village Hall, or a layby on the way to Community Garden. Ring and ask instead of assuming if you are close to a border, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of Burgh St Margaret Village Sign.
In short, for Burgh St Margaret drivers
Before you tip, read the cap. AdBlue in the diesel tank regardless? Leave the vehicle switched off then phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, throughout Norfolk.