AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Butts Batch: Why It Occurs and How to Avoid It
Keep your engine and ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103 first — the rest can wait if AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. A drain and a thorough flush, carried out right where the car sits in Butts Batch, is usually what it needs when caught before the motor runs. The remainder of this page explains why it happens and how to make sure it doesn't — useful if you are reading ahead of time.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel motor need its own filler?
Diesel goes to the motor — but many newer diesels driven round Butts Batch and Udley carry another liquid as well. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into your exhaust gas to clean it.
Every tank comes with a filler of its own. Plenty of motors have a single flap for both, whereas some put the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is filled at the petrol pump all the time. The AdBlue side is fuelled far less often, usually from a bottle, and usually by someone who has to stop and think where it goes. The error lives in that gap.
AdBlue in your diesel tank in Butts Batch: how it happens
It is seldom carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low your car tells you, and if it runs out completely, the vehicle goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Kings Road before work, or in the car park at The Golden Lion on the way home.
Then the car is unfamiliar. A hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and your hand hits for the cap it would have used on the old one.
A spouted bottle meets no resistance at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. So the pour, after begun, keeps on. Coxs Green or the middle of Butts Batch: it takes the same few seconds either way.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Before you pour anything, whether on a drive in Blackmoor or a forecourt in Butts Batch, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- Read the cap instead of going by where it sits: AdBlue ones are often blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones normally aren't.
- Many cars give AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- Open the flap and check for a label — many motors show which goes in which inlet just there.
- Can't find it beside the diesel filler? In that case look beneath the bonnet or in the boot — the handbook will say where.
- Ask the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — when you pick up a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park at Yatton.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
The day the light goes on, wherever in Somerset, use this routine.
- Pull in somewhere level, motor off, with time to spare — never hurried on the side of Butts Orchard.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and it does the trick.
- Both behind a single flap? So confirm the lid on your diesel side stays shut ahead of lifting the bottle.
- Stop once the tank fills or the bottle is empty; until then, tip gently through the built-in spout.
- Before you start your car, shut the cap and look a second time that the diesel cap never opened off.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Do not go on to step five.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, in Butts Batch?
The short order of things, beginning with not starting your engine. On plenty of diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so do not switch the vehicle on. Thinning it with more diesel fails, since AdBlue sinks to the bottom rather than blending — and that's where the fuel is pulled from.
Ask the staff to help push the car away from the pump if you are at a forecourt — the Esso, the Murco or somewhere else. At home around Butts Batch? So the car stays where it is.
When your motor has been run by now, pull over somewhere safe then turn it off. Butts Batch sits under 5 miles from the M5; on it, take the next exit. A short hop across Butts Batch is a smaller job than a run towards Bristol, under 10 miles away, and so tell us roughly how far it went.
What happens when we turn up around Butts Batch
The van comes to the car anywhere it has come to rest — your own drive, beside Church of All Saints, or outside Wrington Church of England Primary School. What liquid was put in, the quantity, and if it ran: we ask since the answers decide both work and price. No one heads out until you've heard our quote over the phone.
Emptying that tank comes next, followed by a thorough flush of your system. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not wash out on its own — which is why that counts more here than with petrol. After the filter has been flushed — or replaced, if needed — fresh diesel is added, and then your car gets tested. After that our engineers start the engine and confirm it runs smoothly before we leave.
Most jobs are done in roughly half an hour once our engineers get there, as long as your motor hasn't run — and the pumps our technicians use are fine on a busy forecourt and quiet after dark outside a house. Paying is on the day, not upfront, and you are given the documents an insurer asks for: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Wrong-fuel cover is part of plenty of insurance policies — so make use of the wait to check yours.
About Butts Batch and where it is
Butts Batch is a suburban area located on the riverside in Somerset, with an elevation of 24 metres. Butts Batch sits near the cities of Bristol and Bath, and is close to nearby places such as Coxs Green and Wrington. Butts Batch is characterised by its predominantly detached housing stock, and is home to a population of around 1709 residents. Butts Batch is situated in a scenic area, with the River Yeo flowing nearby.
AdBlue drains across Somerset, Butts Batch included
Butts Batch is a residential suburb, and the teams that cover it also work the places around it, Wrington and Maines Batch among them, across the BS postcode area. A postcode starting BS40 5 gets our van to you fastest.
Shifting the vehicle is not needed. Anywhere it sits — near Memorial Hall, in a lay-by heading to Wrington Tennis Club, on a drive — that is where it gets drained. Guessing won't help behind Wrington Chapel (URC), close to a boundary, or anywhere hard to pin down; phone and ask.
For Butts Batch people, the short version
Read the cap before you tip. AdBlue in the diesel tank after all? Leave it off then ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, across Somerset.