AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Clive: Why It Happens and How to Stop It
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case set this page aside for now, leave your ignition and motor off, and phone 0333 366 0103. A drain and a full flush, done right where the vehicle sits around Clive, is normally what it takes when caught before the engine runs. Reading before the event? Then the rest explains why it comes about and how to prevent it ever happening.
AdBlue in a diesel motor: two tanks, two fillers
Diesel feeds the motor — but many newer diesels seen round Clive and Alderton carry a second fluid too. Its own tank holds it, and from there it is sent to the exhaust, and there spraying treats the gas.
Every tank comes with one filler of its own. Plenty of vehicles share a single flap for the two, while some put the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is fuelled at the petrol pump all the time. Seldom filled, AdBlue usually comes from a bottle, tipped by someone who must stop and think what filler it needs. It's in that gap that the mistake happens.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank take place around Clive?
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
Haste follows from the warning. The car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank puts the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up gets done quickly, before work on a drive off Wem Road, or heading home in the car park at the pub in the village.
The old car's filler is where the hand goes — yet a rental car, a new vehicle or a company car keeps the fillers elsewhere. That's a second thing: a strange motor.
No part halts the pour once it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Grinshill or the middle of Clive: it takes the same few seconds in both.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
A few seconds is all these take — so check them before you pour anything, on a drive in Yorton Heath or a forecourt in Clive.
- Blue and lettering: an AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally does not. Go by the cap, not where it sits.
- Many cars give AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- Lift the flap and check for a label — plenty of motors mark what goes in each filler just there.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that is where your filler sits if it is not by your diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- Ask the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — when you collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside Yorton.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
When the light goes on, wherever around Shropshire, follow this routine.
- Not in a rush on the side of Holly Close, not on a slope, not with the engine running: park and switch off properly.
- Daft as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew the cap works — once you have found the filler and read the cap.
- The diesel cap stays on. Where the two sit under a flap, make sure it is shut before the bottle comes up.
- Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap, and check once more — making sure the diesel filler stayed shut throughout. Only then, start the car.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you have already poured into the diesel side. Stage five stays out.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Clive?
What follows is a short order of things, beginning with no starting the motor. Keep the ignition off as well, because on many diesels switching it on alone runs your fuel pump. Diluting it with extra diesel fails, since AdBlue settles to the bottom instead of mixing — and that is where your fuel is sucked from.
If you're at a forecourt, whether it is the Valero or the Pace, ask the staff to help push your car clear of the petrol pump. If you are on your own drive around Clive, leave the vehicle where it stands.
When the motor has been run by now, stop safely and turn the car off. Leave the M54 — under 15 miles out of Clive — at the first exit. Mileage counts — a short hop across Clive makes a smaller job than driving under 25 miles towards Wrexham — so tell us roughly how far it went.
What takes place when our engineers turn up in Clive
The van reaches the vehicle anywhere it has come to rest — your own drive, near Clive Village Hall, or by Clive CofE Primary School. We ask what got in, roughly how much, and if it has run, since those replies decide the work and our price. You hear that price on the phone, before anyone sets off.
Then your tank is emptied and the system purged thoroughly. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't wash out on its own. Filter cleaned or, if it must be, swapped; clean diesel in; then a check of the vehicle. Before leaving, our technicians start the engine and confirm that it's running properly.
If the engine has not run, most jobs take about half an hour once we're there, using pumps that are fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house after dark. Your insurer will ask for an engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and both are yours once the job is done. Payment comes on the day, with no money upfront. It is worth looking at your insurance while we travel to you: misfuelling cover comes with plenty of policies.
About Clive
Clive is a small village in Shropshire, situated inland at an elevation of around 128 metres, with detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation. Clive lies near the villages of Grinshill and Yorton, and is close to the larger settlement of Sansaw Heath. Clive is located approximately 19.8 miles from Wrexham, the nearest city, and around 142.2 miles from London. Clive has a population of around 544 people, according to recent estimates.
AdBlue drains about Clive, and Shropshire beyond
Yorton and Sansaw Heath are among the places around Clive, a rural village, that the same vans cover, over SY postcodes. Give a postcode beginning SY4 3, and our van arrives quickest.
Shifting the car isn't necessary. Our engineers drain it where it is — a side street close to All Saints, a lay-by on the way to Corbet Wood, a drive. If you are close to a border, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of Grinshill Village Hall, ring and ask rather than assuming.
The short version for Clive motorists
Always, the cap; after that, the pour. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank anyway, leave it off then ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, anywhere in Shropshire.