Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Callow End: Why It Occurs
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the motor and the ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103. Normally, if the motor has not turned, it's drained and fully rinsed where your vehicle sits in Callow End. Here in advance? In that case what follows explains why it happens and how to prevent it happening at all.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel car need its own filler?
Plenty of modern diesels in Brayswick, like those in Callow End, carry on two fluids; the motor gets only the diesel. AdBlue goes to the exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Different tanks, separate fillers. Some vehicles keep the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; plenty more have the two together behind one flap. Diesel goes in on every filling station visit, week in, week out. Rarely filled, AdBlue usually comes out of a bottle, tipped by someone who must stop and think which cap to use. The mistake grows in the gap between them.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs around Callow End
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
Hurry follows from the warning. The vehicle warns you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank puts it into limp mode — so the top-up gets done quickly, before work on a driveway off Stanbrook House Road, or on the way home in the car park outside The Blue Bell.
Then the vehicle is new. A hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and the hand gets to for the cap it would have 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, and so nothing stops the tip once it has started. Whether it takes place in Pole Elm or the middle of Callow End, it's the same few seconds.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
A few seconds is all these take — so run through them before you tip anything, on a driveway in Kempsey or a forecourt around Callow End.
- Position misleads; the cap does not. AdBlue caps tend to be blue or bear the word "AdBlue" — diesel ones normally do not.
- On many motors, size tells: AdBlue has the smaller filler neck.
- Check inside your fuel flap: many motors have a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- Cannot find it beside your diesel inlet? In that case look below the bonnet or in the boot — the owner's manual says where.
- The person who drove the car last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park at Worcester Foregate Street, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
When the light comes on, wherever in Worcestershire, use this routine.
- Switch off once parked — level ground, motor stopped, and not in a rush beside Pole Elm Close on the verge.
- Find the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and speak the name "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft. It does the trick.
- The diesel cap stays on. When the two sit under a flap, make sure it is shut before the bottle comes up.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check again. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
Find during the second or third stage that AdBlue went in the wrong filler? That's where you stop. Never go on to stage five.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Callow End?
Don't start the motor: that is how the short order of things begins. Keep your ignition off too, since on many diesels it alone starts your pump. Filling up with diesel won't thin it: instead, AdBlue drops to the bottom of the tank, right where the fuel is drawn from.
At a forecourt — JET, Esso or any other — the staff will usually help roll the vehicle away, when you ask. Your own drive in Callow End is the place it stays.
Already run? Stop when it is sensible, then turn off. Callow End sits under 3 miles from the M5; there, use the first exit. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Worcester, under 5 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Callow End.
When our engineers turn up around Callow End, what occurs?
By Callow End CofE Primary School, close to Callow End Village Hall or on your own drive: wherever the car has stopped, our engineers come to it. The replies determine the work and our quote, and so our engineers ask what was put in, roughly how much, and if it's run. On the call itself, you are told our quote — ahead of dispatch.
Emptying the tank comes next, followed by a thorough flush of your system. More than with petrol, it counts here: the crystals build up, some metals are attacked, and none of it clears out on its own, no matter how long it is left. Filter flushed or, where it must be, swapped; clean diesel in; and then a test of your vehicle. After that our technicians fire it up and check it runs properly before we go.
Unrun cars mostly mean a half-hour visit from arrival. The kit is fine on a live forecourt, and quiet enough for a driveway after dark. The insurer will ask for an engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and you get both at the end. Payment is on the day, with no deposit. Misfuelling cover is included in many insurance policies — so use the wait to check yours.
About Callow End
Callow End is a small village in Worcestershire, situated near the city of Worcester and surrounded by other local places such as Pole Elm and Stanbrook. Callow End sits in a low-lying area at an elevation of around 20 metres, with detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation. Callow End is located approximately 3.3 miles from Worcester and around 100 miles from London, making it a commuter-friendly location. Callow End has a population of around 851 residents, who enjoy the peaceful surroundings of the village.
AdBlue drains in Callow End and across Worcestershire
Throughout WR postcodes, the vans covering Callow End — a rural village — work the nearby spots too, Kents Green and Stanbrook included. Quote a postcode that starts WR2 4, and the van gets there fastest.
The vehicle remains where it is. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street near St James Callow End, a lay-by on the way to Callow End Recreation Ground, a drive. Guessing doesn't help at the back of Callow End War Memorial, close to a border, or anywhere awkward to pin down; ring and check.
In short, for Callow End people
Tip nothing till you've read the cap. Still AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will empty it wherever it stands, anywhere in Worcestershire: switch the vehicle off and call 0333 366 0103.