AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Crowder Park: Why It Happens and How to Avoid It
Leave the engine and ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103 now — reading can wait if AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Usually, when the engine hasn't run, it is emptied and fully rinsed where the car is in Crowder Park. If you're reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it takes place and how to make sure it does not.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel vehicle
Plenty of newer diesels in Aish, as well as Crowder Park, run on two liquids; the motor gets just the diesel. The exhaust, not your motor, is where AdBlue goes: dosed into the fumes to fresh it, from a separate tank.
There's a filler on each tank. Under one flap, next to each other: that's the arrangement on a lot of cars. On others, AdBlue's filler sits under the bonnet or in your boot instead. Filling the diesel side at the pump happens all the time. Seldom topped up, AdBlue usually goes in out of a bottle, tipped by a driver who must stop and think what cap to use. It is in that gap that the slip lives.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank happens in Crowder Park
Carelessness seldom causes it. Instead is three things lining up at once.
Haste follows from the warning. Your car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank sends the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up happens in a rush, before work on a drive off Devon Expressway, or on the way home in the car park at The Pack Horse Inn.
The old car's filler is where the hand goes — but a rental car, a new motor or a company car keeps the fillers somewhere else. That is a second factor: a new vehicle.
A spouted bottle meets no obstacle at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. And so the tip, once begun, keeps on. Whether it happens in South Brent or the middle of Crowder Park, it's the same few seconds.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Before you tip anything, whether on a driveway in Lutton or a forecourt in Crowder Park, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is often blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap normally isn't. Read it rather than going by position.
- Many motors give AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- A label inside the fuel flap frequently says which fuel goes where, on many motors. Check for it.
- The handbook says where it is if the filler isn't next to the diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- Picking up a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park outside Ivybridge? Check with the person who drove it last before you set off, not once the light goes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
On the day the warning comes on — anywhere you are in Devon — a routine to use.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with your motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Portford Lane.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it does the trick.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave the vehicle on.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check again. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start your car.
Discover at the second or third stage that the bottle went in the wrong filler? That is where you stop. Don't go on to stage five.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, around Crowder Park?
Do not start your motor: that is how the short order of things starts. Leave your ignition off too, because on many diesels switching it on alone runs your fuel pump. Filling up with diesel won't thin it: instead, AdBlue sinks to the base of the tank, right where the fuel is drawn from.
At a forecourt — Shell, Pace or another — the attendants will usually help push your car clear, when you ask. Leave it where it is if you're on your own driveway around Crowder Park.
When your motor has been run already, pull over safely and switch the vehicle off. Leave the M5 — under 25 miles out of Crowder Park — at the next exit. Roughly how far did it go? Crossing Crowder Park is smaller work than a run of under 15 miles to Plymouth, and so tell us.
Crowder Park: what happens when our engineers get there
The van reaches the vehicle anywhere it has come to rest — your own drive, beside South Brent Old School Community Centre, or outside South Brent Primary School. What fluid was put in, the quantity, and whether it ran: our engineers ask because those replies set the work and price. On the call itself, you hear the price — ahead of dispatch.
Then your tank is emptied and the fuel system purged thoroughly. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and attacks some fuel-system metals, and none of that washes out unaided. That is why it matters more. Filter flushed or, where it must be, swapped; clean diesel in; and then a test of the vehicle. We don't go until it has been started and is running smoothly.
If your engine has not run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we're there, using pumps that are safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house after dark. Your insurer usually wants an engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and both are yours once the job is done. Payment is on the day, with no deposit. It's worth checking your insurance while we travel to you: misfuelling cover is included with many policies.
About Crowder Park, briefly
Crowder Park is a locality in Devon, situated in a riverside setting near the town of South Brent. Crowder Park has a population of around 687 people and is characterised by semi-detached housing. Crowder Park is located near the cities of Plymouth and the surrounding countryside of the South West region. Crowder Park sits at an elevation of 133 metres, within a short drive from the nearby settlements of Brent Mill and Avonwick.
AdBlue drains across Devon, Crowder Park included
Throughout TQ postcodes, our vans covering Crowder Park — a small village — work the nearby locations too, Avonwick and Brent Mill among them. A postcode starting TQ10 9 gets our van to you fastest.
The car stays put. Anywhere it stands — beside Methodist Church, on a layby heading to Sanderspool Cross Recreation Area, on a drive — that is where it is drained. Ring and ask instead of guessing if you are close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain, like the back of St Dunstan's.
In short, for Crowder Park people
Read the cap before you pour. Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, anywhere around Devon, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless — so leave the car off then call 0333 366 0103.