Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Camps Heath: Why It Happens
Keep the motor and ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103 now — reading can wait if AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Caught before the engine runs, it's usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is in Camps Heath. If you are reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it happens and how to make sure it does not.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel vehicle
Plenty of modern diesels in Normanston, like those in Camps Heath, run on two liquids; your engine takes only the diesel. Its own tank holds it, and from there it is sent to the exhaust, where spraying cleans the gas.
Different tanks, different fillers. Plenty of motors share a single flap for the two, whereas others move the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. Topping up the diesel side at the pump goes on all the time. Someone who has to stop and think where it goes normally fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less regularly. The error lives in that gap.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank happen in Camps Heath?
Carelessness rarely causes it. Instead is three things lining up together.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a warning from your car, and running out leads to limp mode — hence a hurried top-up, maybe before work off Church Lane, or at The Ole Frank on the way home after work.
The old car's filler is where the hand goes — yet a rental car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers somewhere else. That's the second factor: a strange car.
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 Oulton Broad or the middle of Camps Heath, it's the same few seconds.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
A few seconds is all the checks take — so run through them before you tip anything, on a driveway in Gunton or a forecourt in Camps Heath.
- Check the cap rather than going by where it sits: AdBlue caps are regularly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps usually are not.
- Plenty of motors fit AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- Lift the flap and look for a label — plenty of vehicles mark which belongs in each inlet right there.
- Can't find it beside your diesel inlet? Then check below the bonnet or in your boot — the handbook says which.
- Collecting a hire or company car, say at the car park outside Oulton Broad North? Check with the person who drove the car last before leaving, not when the light goes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
The day the light goes on, wherever in Suffolk, follow this routine.
- Not in a rush on the side of Wood Lane, not on a slope, not with the engine running: park then switch off first.
- Silly as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew the cap does the trick — after you have located your filler and read it.
- The diesel cap stays on. When both share a flap, confirm it's shut before the bottle comes up.
- Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap, then look once more — making sure your diesel cap stayed shut throughout. Only then, start the vehicle.
Discover during the second or third step that AdBlue went in the wrong tank? That is where you stop. Skip step five entirely.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Camps Heath already?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start the motor. Keep the ignition off too, since on many diesels switching it on by itself starts your fuel pump. Diluting it with extra diesel won't work, because AdBlue settles to the base instead of mixing — and that's where the fuel is pulled from.
The staff at Esso, Kirkley Run Service Station or any forecourt will normally help pushing the car away when asked. Leave it where it is if you're on your own drive in Camps Heath.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if your motor has already run. Camps Heath sits over 50 miles from the M11; on it, use the next junction. Roughly how far did it go? Hopping across Camps Heath is smaller work than a trip of under 25 miles towards Norwich, so say.
Our arrival in Camps Heath, and what takes place next
Our technicians come to the vehicle wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside Oulton Broad Primary School, close to Saint Michaels Church or on your own driveway. Our technicians ask what went in, about how much, and whether it has run, because the replies determine this work and our quote. Nobody heads out before you have had our quote by phone.
Then that tank is cleared and your system purged thoroughly. More than with petrol, it counts here: crystals build up, some metals are attacked, and nothing washes out on its own, however long it sits. Once the filter is flushed — or replaced, where needed — clean diesel is added, and then your vehicle is tested. The motor is started next and tested to be sure it runs correctly, all before our engineers head off.
With pumps fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs in which the motor hasn't run need roughly half an hour after our engineers are there. Payment is on the day, not upfront, and you receive the documents an insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. While we travel, take a look at your policy; plenty carry cover for misfuelling.
About Camps Heath and where it is
Camps Heath is a small coastal hamlet in Suffolk, situated near the Norfolk border and close to the Broads. Camps Heath lies at a low elevation of around 8 metres, with the North Sea coastline nearby. Camps Heath is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock, reflecting its relatively affluent and rural nature.
AdBlue drains round Camps Heath, and Suffolk beyond
Being a rural hamlet, Camps Heath shares its vans surrounding places — Oulton, Flixton — all the way through NR postcodes and the surrounding area around them. Quickest of all: quote a NR32 5 postcode to our van.
There's no need to shift the car. Wherever it stands — near Commodore Mission, on a lay-by en route to Workhouse Wood, at home — that's where it gets emptied. If you're close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of Oulton Village Sign, ring and ask rather than assuming.
Camps Heath motorists: the short version
Pour no AdBlue until you've read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank anyway, leave it off and call 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it waits, anywhere in Suffolk.