Comeytrowe: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
Leave the motor and ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait when AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Usually, if the motor hasn't turned, it's emptied and thoroughly cleaned where the vehicle sits around Comeytrowe. If you are reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it doesn't.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel motor need its own filler?
Diesel goes to your motor — but plenty of newer diesels seen around Comeytrowe and Haines Hill carry a second fluid too. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into your exhaust gas to clean it.
Each tank has its own filler. Under one flap, side by side: that's the layout on many vehicles. On others, AdBlue's filler is under the bonnet or in the boot instead. At the pump, the diesel side is topped up constantly. The AdBlue side is topped up far less regularly, usually from a bottle, and usually by somebody who has to stop and think where it goes. That gap is where the slip lives.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank takes place around Comeytrowe
Seldom is it carelessness: normally three things coincide.
First, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a message from the vehicle, and running dry means limp mode — hence a rushed top-up, maybe before work off Hine Road, perhaps at The Shephards Rest on the way home that evening.
The old car's cap is where the hand reaches — but a hire car, a new vehicle or a company car keeps the fillers somewhere else. That's the second factor: an unfamiliar car.
A spout-topped bottle meets no obstacle at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. And so the tip, once started, carries on. Galmington or the heart of Comeytrowe: it is the same few seconds either way.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Be it a Comeytrowe forecourt or a driveway out in Staplehay, spend a couple of seconds on these before anything goes in.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is often blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap usually isn't. Read it instead of going by where it sits.
- Check the size: the smaller neck is, on many vehicles, the AdBlue one.
- Look inside the fuel flap: many cars have a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- Cannot find it beside your diesel filler? Then look beneath the bonnet or inside the boot — the handbook says where.
- The person who drove the car last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park at Taunton, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
On the day the light appears — wherever you are in Somerset — a simple routine to use.
- Not in a rush on the side of Queensway, not on a slope, not with the engine running: park then switch off properly.
- Locate the AdBlue filler, read the cap, and say the name "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew it. It sounds silly. It does the trick.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave the vehicle on.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap, and check again — confirm your diesel cap stayed shut throughout. Only then, start the car.
Spot at step two or three that it's already gone into your diesel side? Then stop just there. Never go on to stage five.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Comeytrowe already?
What follows is a short order of things, beginning with no starting your engine. On plenty of diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so do not switch the vehicle on. Don't top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where the fuel is pulled from.
On a forecourt — Texaco, Esso or any other — the staff will usually help roll the vehicle clear, when you ask. If you are on your own drive in Comeytrowe, leave it where it is.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if the engine has already run. Leave the M5 — under 3 miles out of Comeytrowe — at the next exit. Mileage matters — a short hop across Comeytrowe is a smaller job than driving under 50 miles to Wells — so tell us roughly how far it went.
What happens when we get there around Comeytrowe
We come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside Orchard Grove Primary School, close to St Michael the Archangel Church or on your own drive. Our technicians ask what was put in, roughly how much, and whether it has run, because those answers settle this work and our price. That quote is given on the call, ahead of any van leaving.
Your system is then purged thoroughly, once that tank is emptied. With AdBlue that matters more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not wash out on its own. Filter cleaned or, where it must be, swapped; clean diesel in; and then a check of your vehicle. Your engine is fired up next and tested to make sure it runs properly, all before our technicians head off.
Most jobs are finished in roughly half an hour after our engineers get there, provided your engine hasn't run — and the pumps our technicians use are safe on a live forecourt and quiet after dark beside a house. Nothing in advance; you settle up that day. At the end, the VAT invoice and the report from the engineer go to you for your insurer. It is worth looking at your policy while we travel to you: misfuelling cover comes with many policies.
About Comeytrowe and where it is
Comeytrowe is a suburban area situated on the riverside in Somerset, with a relatively low elevation of 33 metres. Comeytrowe lies near several other local places, including Galmington, Sherford, and Trull, and is around 25 miles from the city of Wells. Comeytrowe has a population of approximately 4194 people, predominantly living in semi-detached housing. Comeytrowe is also located at a distance of around 134 miles from London, making it a commuter-friendly location.
AdBlue drains across Somerset, Comeytrowe included
Comeytrowe is a residential suburb, and our vans that cover it also work the places near it, Sherford and Trull among them, across the TA postcode area. A postcode starting TA1 4 gets our van to you fastest.
The car remains put. Anywhere it stands — near Comeytrowe Community Hall, in a layby heading to Galmington Recreation Ground, at home — that is where it gets emptied. Tricky to explain, like the back of The Trident Youth & Community Centre? Close to a county line? Asking beats assuming, so ring.
The short version for Comeytrowe drivers
Tip nothing until you've read the cap. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, anywhere around Somerset, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank regardless — so leave the car off and call 0333 366 0103.