Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Chilton: Why It Occurs
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? Then set this page down a moment, keep your ignition and motor off, then ring 0333 366 0103. Usually, when your motor has not turned, it's emptied and thoroughly rinsed where your car sits around Chilton. If you're reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it doesn't.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle: two tanks, two fillers
Diesel feeds the engine — but plenty of current diesels driven around Chilton and Cliffs End hold another fluid as well. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
There's a filler for each tank. On a lot of vehicles the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in the boot or under the bonnet. At the pump, the diesel side is topped up constantly. Seldom filled, AdBlue usually goes in out of a bottle, poured by someone who has to stop and think which cap it needs. The error lives in that gap.
Chilton: how AdBlue in your diesel tank takes place
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
First, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a warning from the car, and running dry means limp mode — so a rushed top-up, perhaps before work off Curlinge Court, perhaps at Sir Stanley Gray on the way home after work.
The old car's cap is where your hand reaches — yet a rental car, a new vehicle or a company car keeps the fillers somewhere else. That is the second factor: a strange car.
Third, the bottle goes in: diesel filler or AdBlue one, it slides in just as easily, and after the pour starts, no part stops it. It takes seconds, whether in Pegwell or right in the heart of Chilton.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Whether a Chilton forecourt or a drive out in Ramsgate, spend a few seconds on these before any is poured in.
- Check the cap instead of going by where it sits: AdBlue ones are regularly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps usually are not.
- Plenty of motors fit AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- A label inside the fuel flap frequently shows which fuel goes where, on plenty of vehicles. Check for it.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that is where the filler is if it is not by the diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- Ask the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — if you collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park at Ramsgate.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
For the day the warning comes on — wherever you are around Kent — a routine to follow.
- Switch off once parked — flat ground, motor off, and never rushed by Pegwell Road at the roadside.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once finding the AdBlue filler and reading it. Daft, yes, yet it works.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave it on.
- Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Only then, start the car: close the cap, check again, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
Stop there if you find, at stage two or three, that you have already poured into the diesel side. Never go on to stage five.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, in Chilton?
Do not start the engine: that is how the short order of things starts. Do not switch the ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Diluting it with more diesel won't work, because AdBlue settles to the bottom instead of mixing — and that is where the fuel is pulled from.
Ask the attendants to help push the vehicle away from the petrol pump if you're on a forecourt — the Shell, the BP or anywhere else. If you are on your own drive in Chilton, leave it where it is.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if the engine has already run. Chilton lies under 25 miles from the M20; there, take the first exit. Distance matters — a quick hop across Chilton is a smaller job than heading under 15 miles to Canterbury — so tell us about how far it went.
Our arrival in Chilton, and what takes place next
Our engineers come to the vehicle wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside Chilton Primary School, near Southwood Stadium or on your own driveway. Both the work and the quote depend on three answers — which liquid, which quantity, and whether it's run — so we ask. On the phone call itself, you are told our price — ahead of anything else.
The system is then purged thoroughly, once the tank is emptied. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and eats at some fuel-system metals, and neither washes away unaided. Hence it counts more. Filter flushed or, where it must be, replaced; fresh diesel in; then a check of your car. Before we go, our technicians start the engine and check that it's running smoothly.
Most jobs are finished in about half an hour after our engineers get there, as long as your motor hasn't run — and the pumps our engineers use are safe on a live forecourt and quiet after dark outside a house. Paying happens on the day, not upfront, and you are given the paperwork your insurer wants: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. It's worth checking your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with plenty of policies.
About Chilton and where it is
Chilton is a suburban area in Kent, situated near the coast and approximately 14 miles from Canterbury. Chilton sits at an elevation of 26 metres, with semi-detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation in the area. Chilton is located near other nearby places such as Pegwell, Nethercourt, and Newington, and is about 66.6 miles from London. Chilton has a population of around 3732 residents.
AdBlue drains in Chilton and across Kent
Throughout CT postcodes, our teams that cover Chilton — a residential suburb — work the nearby spots too, Newington and Nethercourt included. A postcode starting CT11 0 gets our van to you fastest.
No need to move the car. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Nethercourt Park, a side street near St Lawrence Parish Hall: our engineers drain it where it is. If you are close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of St Lawrence Church, ring and ask instead of assuming.
The short version for Chilton drivers
Read the cap before you pour. AdBlue in your diesel tank after all? Keep the vehicle switched off then call 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, throughout Kent.