Creamore Bank: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
Leave your motor and ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103 now — reading can wait if AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Usually, when your engine hasn't turned, it is drained and fully rinsed where the car is in Creamore Bank. Not happened yet? Further down, the rest of the page explains the reasons it takes place and the how to avoid it for good.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel car need its own filler?
Not one fluid but two: that is how many newer diesels near Creamore Bank and Wem run, with diesel feeding the engine. Its own tank holds it, and from there it is sent to your exhaust, where a spray cleans the fumes.
Each tank has its own filler. On a lot of motors the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in the boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is fuelled at the petrol pump all the time. Much less frequently, the AdBlue side gets topped up — normally from a bottle, by someone thinking about where it goes. The mistake grows in the gap between them.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank happens in Creamore Bank
Seldom is it carelessness: normally three things line up.
Hurry comes from the warning. Your car warns you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank puts the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up happens quickly, before work on a drive off Whitchurch Road, or on the way home in the car park at Hawkestone Arms.
Next, your hand reaches for the cap it knew on the old car — since a rental car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers somewhere your last one didn't.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, so nothing stops the tip after it has started. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Creamore Bank or out in Ryebank.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Look at these first, on a forecourt in Creamore Bank or a drive over in Paddolgreen. A few seconds, no more.
- Check the cap instead of going by position: AdBlue caps are often blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps normally aren't.
- Plenty of cars give AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- Look inside your fuel flap: many cars carry a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that is where your filler sits if it is not by your diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- The person who drove the vehicle last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park outside Wem, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever in Shropshire that is.
- Pull in on level, engine off, with time in hand — never hurried on the side of Landona Cottages.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once you find the AdBlue filler and reading it. Silly, perhaps, but it works.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave it on.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check a second time. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start your car.
Find at the second or third stage that AdBlue went in the wrong filler? That is where you stop. Stage five is out.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Creamore Bank already?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start your motor. On many diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so don't switch it on. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where the fuel is drawn from — so do not top up with diesel to thin it.
The staff at Valero, another forecourt nearby or another forecourt will normally help pushing the car away if you ask. Leave it where it is if you're on your own drive in Creamore Bank.
When your engine has run already, stop somewhere safe then turn the vehicle off. Creamore Bank sits under 15 miles from the M54; there, take the next junction. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Wrexham, under 25 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Creamore Bank.
When our engineers turn up around Creamore Bank, what occurs?
Our engineers come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside St Peter's CofE Primary School, close to Moat or on your own driveway. The answers decide the work and the price, and so we ask what was put in, roughly how much, and if it's run. You get that quote on the phone, before anybody sets off.
After that: draining, then a full flush of the whole system. Not like petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and attacks certain fuel-system metals, and neither clears away by itself. That is why it matters more. The filter cleaned or, if needed, swapped; fresh diesel in; then a check of your car. The motor is started next and tested to be sure it runs properly, all before we go.
Most jobs are finished in roughly half an hour after our engineers get there, as long as the motor has not run — and the pumps our engineers use are fine on a live forecourt yet quiet after dark outside a house. No money upfront; you settle up that day. Afterwards, a VAT invoice and the report from the engineer go to you for your insurer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it is worth checking yours whilst we're on the way.
About Creamore Bank
Creamore Bank is a small hamlet in Shropshire, situated inland at an elevation of 92 metres, and is located near the villages of Ryebank, Edstaston, and Lowe. Creamore Bank has a population of around 571 people, and its housing stock is predominantly made up of detached homes. Creamore Bank is close to the city of Wrexham, which is approximately 16.7 miles away, and is about 144.8 miles from London.
AdBlue drains across Shropshire, Creamore Bank included
Throughout SY postcodes, the teams that cover Creamore Bank — a rural hamlet — work the surrounding locations too, Lowe and Edstaston among them. The van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting SY4 5.
Shifting the car isn't necessary. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Wheatfields Play Area, a side street near St Mary the Virgin: we drain it where it is. Ring and ask instead of guessing if you're close to a border, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of Wem Swimming and Lifestyle Centre.
For Creamore Bank drivers, the short version
Before you pour, read the cap. Even so AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can drain it where it is, wherever in Shropshire: keep the vehicle off and call 0333 366 0103.