Why It Happens and How to Prevent It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Camberley
Keep the engine and ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103 first — reading can wait if AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Caught before the motor runs, it is generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is around Camberley. Not happened yet? Below, the page covers the why it occurs and the how to avoid it for good.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel motor need its own filler?
Many newer diesels around Frimley Ridge, like those in Camberley, run on two liquids; your motor gets just the diesel. The exhaust, not the motor, is where AdBlue ends up: sprayed into the fumes to clean them, from its own tank.
Different tanks, separate fillers. Many of cars share a single flap for the two, while some put the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. At the pump, your diesel side gets filled constantly. A driver who has to stop and think where it goes usually tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less regularly. The mistake grows in that gap between the two.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank happen in Camberley?
Carelessness rarely causes it. What does is three things coming up together.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a message from your car, and running out leads to limp mode — so a hurried top-up, perhaps before work off Townside Place, perhaps outside RSVP on the way home after work.
New-to-you vehicles come next, as well. Rentals, new vehicles and company vehicles place their fillers differently, and the hand goes for the cap it used on the old one.
A spouted bottle finds no obstacle at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. So the tip, once started, carries on. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Camberley or out in Crawley Hill.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
A few seconds is all these take — so run through them before you tip anything, on a driveway in Heatherside or a forecourt in Camberley.
- Colour and marking: an AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually does not. Go by the cap, not its position.
- Plenty of vehicles fit AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- Lift the flap and look for a label — plenty of vehicles mark what belongs in each filler right there.
- The handbook. If your filler is not by your diesel cap, it is in your boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- The person who drove the vehicle last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park at the nearest station, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around Surrey that is.
- Switch off after you park — level ground, motor off, and never in a rush by Knoll Road at the roadside.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after finding the AdBlue filler and reading it. Silly, perhaps, yet it does the trick.
- The diesel cap stays on. When the two share a flap, make sure it is shut before the bottle comes up.
- Slowly does it, through the bottle's own spout, till it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Only after that, start the vehicle: close the cap, check a second time, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you have already poured into the diesel side. Leave out stage five entirely.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Camberley already?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start the motor. On many diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so do not switch the car on. Filling up with diesel will not weaken it: instead, AdBlue drops to the base of that tank, right where fuel is taken from.
If you are on a forecourt, whether it's the Texaco or the Esso, ask the staff to help push the vehicle away from the petrol pump. At home around Camberley? Then the vehicle remains put.
If the engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. The next junction means where to come off when you are on the M3, under a mile from Camberley. A short hop across Camberley is a smaller job than a run towards Westminster, under 50 miles away, and so tell us roughly how far it went.
Camberley: what occurs when we turn up
The van comes to your car anywhere it has come to rest — your own drive, near Into Our First World, or outside Lorraine Infant School & Nursery. Our engineers ask what was put in, roughly how much, and if it has run, because the replies determine the work and the price. That price is given on the call, before any van leaves.
Then the tank is cleared and the system cleaned thoroughly. More than with petrol, it counts with AdBlue: the crystals build up, certain metals are attacked, and nothing washes away unaided, however long it is left. After the fuel filter is flushed — or replaced, where needed — fresh diesel goes in, and then your vehicle gets tested. The motor is started next and tested to confirm it runs properly, all before our technicians head off.
Unrun vehicles mostly mean a half-hour job from the moment we arrive. The equipment is fine on a live filling station, and hushed enough for a residential street after dark. Payment happens on the day, not upfront, and you are given the documents an insurer wants: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it's worth checking yours whilst we are on the way.
About Camberley, briefly
Camberley is a town in Surrey, situated near the lakes and heathland of the surrounding countryside. Camberley sits at an elevation of 86 metres, approximately 29 miles southwest of London. Camberley is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock and is close to nearby places such as Crawley Hill and York Town. Camberley has a population of around 15974 residents.
AdBlue drains about Camberley, and Surrey beyond
Camberley is a town, and our vans that cover it also work the towns around it, York Town and College Town among them, across the GU postcode area. Give a postcode that starts GU15 3, and our van gets there fastest.
Moving the car isn't needed. The drain takes place on the spot, whether a drive, a road by Camberley Library, or a layby towards Camberley Park. If you're near a border, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of TK Maxx, ring and ask instead of guessing.
In short, for Camberley drivers
Pour no AdBlue until you have read the cap. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, anywhere across Surrey, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank all the same — and so leave it off then ring 0333 366 0103.