Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Bury: Why It Occurs
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your engine and your ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103. Normally, if the engine hasn't run, it is emptied and thoroughly cleaned where your car sits around Bury. If you are reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it happens and how to make sure it does not.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
Plenty of newer diesels on the roads about Bury and Ramsey Heights carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the motor. AdBlue's own tank holds it, and from there it is sent to your exhaust, and there spraying cleans the fumes.
There is a filler for every tank. Other motors put the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; a lot more have both side by side under one flap. The diesel side is filled at the pump all the time. Far less often, the AdBlue side gets filled — mostly from a bottle, by a person working out where it goes. It's in that gap that the slip lives.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank occur around Bury?
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
Haste comes from the warning. The car warns you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank sends the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up gets done quickly, before work on a driveway off Caton Close, or heading home in the car park outside The White Lion.
Unfamiliar vehicles are second, too. Hire cars, new vehicles and company vehicles place their fillers in new places, and the hand reaches for the cap used on the old one.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, so nothing stops the tip once it has started. Whether it takes place in Ramsey or the middle of Bury, it is the same few seconds.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
Whether a Bury forecourt or a drive out in Little End, spend a couple of seconds over these before anything is poured in.
- Colour and lettering: an AdBlue cap is often blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally doesn't. Trust the cap, not its position.
- Check the size: the smaller filler neck is, on plenty of cars, the AdBlue one.
- Check inside the fuel flap: many vehicles carry a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that is where your filler sits if it's not by your diesel cap, and the handbook says 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 outside Whittlesea.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
For the day the warning appears — anywhere it is across Cambridgeshire — a routine to use.
- Turn off once parked — flat ground, engine off, and never in a rush beside High Street at the roadside.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after you find the AdBlue filler and read it. Silly, yes, but it does the trick.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave it on.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Only after that, start your car: close the cap, check once more, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you've already poured into your diesel side. Don't go on to stage five.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Bury?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start the engine. On plenty of diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so do not switch the car on. Diluting it with more diesel fails, because AdBlue sinks to the bottom rather than blending — and that is where your fuel is drawn from.
On a forecourt — Shell, Essar or any other — the attendants will usually help roll your car away, when you ask. At home around Bury? So your car stays where it is.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if the motor has already run. The next exit means the place to come off if you are on the A1(M), under 10 miles from Bury. A short hop across Bury is a smaller job than a run towards Peterborough, under 15 miles away, so tell us roughly how far it went.
Bury: what takes place when we get there
Our van comes to the vehicle anywhere it has come to rest — your own driveway, beside Village Sign, or by Bury CofE Primary School. Those replies settle this work and the price, so our engineers ask what was put in, roughly how much, and whether it has run. During the call itself, you are told our quote — ahead of anything else.
Emptying the tank comes next, then a thorough flush of your system. More than with petrol, it counts with AdBlue: the crystals build up, some metals are attacked, and none of it clears out on its own, no matter how long it is left. A test comes last: before that, clean diesel is added, and your filter is cleaned or changed as needed. Before we go, our engineers fire it up and confirm that it's running properly.
With pumps safe on a busy forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs where the engine has not run need about half an hour once our engineers are there. The insurer will ask for an engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and both are yours at the end. Payment comes on the day, with no deposit. It's worth checking your policy while we travel to you: misfuelling cover is included with plenty of policies.
About Bury, briefly
Bury is a village in Cambridgeshire, situated on the riverside at a low elevation of around 12 metres. Bury lies near the cities of Peterborough and Cambridge, and is close to the villages of Ramsey, Upwood, and Wistow. Bury has a population of approximately 1530 people, predominantly living in detached houses. Bury is located about 64 miles from London, making it a rural community within commuting distance of the capital.
AdBlue drains around Bury and across Cambridgeshire
Upwood and Wistow are among the towns around Bury, a village, that the same vans cover, over PE postcodes. Give a postcode that starts PE26 2, and the van gets there quickest.
The vehicle does not need to shift. Anywhere it stands — beside Bury Village Hall, in a layby heading to Bury Parish Jubilee Playing Field, at home — that's where it is emptied. If you're near a border, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of Holy Cross (Bury Parish Church), ring and ask rather than guessing.
Bury people: the short version
Before you tip, read the cap. AdBlue in the diesel tank regardless? Keep it switched off and call 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, throughout Cambridgeshire.