AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Chebsey: How It Happens and How to Avoid It
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? Then put this page aside for now, leave the ignition and motor off, then ring 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a thorough flush, carried out right where the car sits around Chebsey, is usually all it takes when found before your motor runs. If you are reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it takes place and how to make sure it doesn't.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
Many newer diesels on the roads about Chebsey and Little Bridgeford carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the engine. Its own tank holds it, and from there it goes to your exhaust, where a spray treats the fumes.
There is a filler for every tank. Other cars put the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; a lot of others have the two together under one flap. Diesel gets filled on every filling station call-out, again and again. Rarely topped up, AdBlue usually goes in from a bottle, tipped by someone who has to stop and think which filler it needs. The error lives in that gap.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank take place around Chebsey?
Carelessness seldom causes it. What does is three things coming up at once.
On a drive off Scamnell Lane before work, or in the car park outside The Railway Inn on the way home: that's where the hurried top-up takes place. Why the rush? As AdBlue runs low your car warns you, and if it's gone, limp mode kicks in.
Unfamiliar cars come second, as well. Hire cars, new cars and company vehicles place their fillers in new places, and habit goes for the cap it used on the old one.
A spouted bottle finds no obstacle at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. And so the tip, once started, keeps on. Walton or the heart of Chebsey: it is the same few seconds either way.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
A few seconds is all the checks take — so run through them before you tip anything, on a driveway in Redhill or a forecourt in Chebsey.
- Where it sits misleads; the cap doesn't. AdBlue ones are often blue or bear the name "AdBlue" — diesel caps usually don't.
- The size. On many cars the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- A label inside your fuel flap frequently shows which fuel goes where, on plenty of motors. Check for it.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that's where your filler sits if it is not by the diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- Whoever had it before knows. Check when you collect a rental or fleet car — at Norton Bridge's car park, perhaps — rather than once the light appears.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
On the day the light comes on — wherever it is around Staffordshire — a simple routine to follow.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with your motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Old Oxleasows Lane.
- Silly as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" aloud while you unscrew the cap does the trick — once you have located your filler and read it.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check once more. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Leave out stage five altogether.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Chebsey?
What follows is a short order of things, starting with not starting your motor. On many diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so do not switch the vehicle on. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where the fuel is drawn from — so do not top up with diesel to dilute it.
Ask the attendants to help push the vehicle clear of the pump if you are at a forecourt — the Esso, the BP or somewhere else. Leave it where it is if you are on your own drive around Chebsey.
Already started? Pull over when it's safe, then turn off. On the M6, under 3 miles from Chebsey, that means the next exit. A short hop across Chebsey is a smaller job than a run towards Stoke-on-Trent, under 15 miles away, so tell us about how far it went.
Our arrival around Chebsey, and what occurs next
Anywhere your car has stopped, whether outside Bishop Lonsdale Church of England Primary Academy, beside Chebsey Parish Hall or on your own drive, our van comes to it. Our technicians ask what was put in, about how much, and whether it's run, since the answers decide the work and the quote. On the phone call itself, you are told the quote — ahead of dispatch.
Emptying that tank comes next, then a full flush of your system. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't wash out on its own. A test is at the end: before that, fresh diesel goes in, and the fuel filter is cleaned or replaced if necessary. We don't go until it has been fired up and is running properly.
With pumps safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs where your motor has not run take about half an hour once our engineers are there. Paying happens on the day, not upfront, and you are given the paperwork your insurer asks for: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. While we travel, take a look at your insurance documents; many include cover for misfuelling.
About Chebsey, briefly
Chebsey is a village in Staffordshire, situated on the banks of a river at an elevation of around 95 metres. Chebsey lies near the villages of Walton and Shallowford, and is approximately 11.5 miles from Stoke-on-Trent. Chebsey has a population of around 563 people, predominantly living in detached houses. Chebsey is located in the West Midlands region, about 128.3 miles from London.
Chebsey and Staffordshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Shallowford and Norton Bridge are among the towns around Chebsey, a village, that the same vans cover, over ST postcodes. The van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting ST21 6.
Shifting the car is not necessary. The drain happens right there, be it a driveway, a road by All Saints, Chebsey, or a layby on the way to Walton Gorse. Assuming won't help behind St Luke's, on a border, or somewhere hard to pin down; phone and ask.
For Chebsey motorists, the short version
Read the cap before you pour. AdBlue in the diesel tank regardless? Leave the car switched off and ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, throughout Staffordshire.