Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Cunnery: Why It Happens
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the engine and the ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a thorough flush, done right where the vehicle stands in Cunnery, is normally what it needs when caught before your motor runs. The remainder of this page covers why it happens and how to make sure it does not — handy if you are reading before it has happened.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle, and its separate tank
Plenty of modern diesels on the roads about Cunnery and Battle Field carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your motor. Your exhaust, not your engine, is where AdBlue ends up: sprayed into the gas to clean them, from a separate tank.
There is a filler on each tank. Under one flap, next to each other: that is the layout on a lot of motors. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler sits under the bonnet or in the boot instead. The diesel side is topped up at the pump all the time. Rarely topped up, AdBlue normally goes in from a bottle, poured by someone who must stop and think which filler it needs. The mistake grows in that gap between the two.
AdBlue in the diesel tank around Cunnery: how it takes place
It is hardly ever carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
On a drive off Churchway before work, or in the car park outside The Bucks Head on the way home: that is where the hurried top-up happens. Why the rush? As AdBlue runs low your car warns you, and if it's gone, limp mode follows.
Then, your hand reaches for the cap it knew on the old car — since a rental car, a new car or a company car places 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. It takes a few seconds, whether out in Church Stretton or right in the heart of Cunnery.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Before you tip anything, whether on a driveway in Hazler or a forecourt in Cunnery, check these. They take a few seconds.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is frequently blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap normally is not. Read it rather than going by position.
- On many vehicles, size gives it away: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- Lift the filler flap and check for a label — plenty of vehicles show what goes in which inlet right there.
- The handbook shows where it is when the filler isn't next to your diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- The person who drove the car last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park outside Church Stretton, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
For the day the light appears — wherever you are across Shropshire — a routine to follow.
- Park and switch off. Not on a slope, not with the motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Church Street.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after you find the AdBlue filler and reading it. Daft, perhaps, but it works.
- The diesel cap stays on. Where both sit under a flap, confirm it is shut before the bottle comes up.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Before starting your car, shut the cap and look again that your diesel cap never opened off.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you have already poured into the diesel side. Step five stays out.
Cunnery: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start the engine. The fuel pump starts on plenty of diesels as soon as the ignition is switched on — and so keep it off. Filling up with diesel won't dilute it: rather than mixing, AdBlue drops to the bottom of that tank, just where the fuel is taken from.
At a forecourt — Applegreen, another forecourt nearby or another — the staff will usually help roll the car clear, if you ask. Leave it where it is if you are on your own driveway around Cunnery.
If your motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. Cunnery sits under 25 miles from the M54; on it, take the first junction. About how far did it go? Crossing Cunnery is less a job than a run of under 50 miles towards Wolverhampton, and so say.
What occurs when our technicians arrive around Cunnery
Anywhere your car has stopped, whether by St Lawrence CofE Primary School, beside St. Laurence's Parish Centre or on your own drive, the van travels to it. What fluid got in, the quantity, and whether it ran: we ask since those replies set both work and quote. You get that price by phone, before anyone heads out.
Then that tank is cleared and the system purged thoroughly. More than with petrol, it matters with AdBlue: the crystals build up, certain metals are attacked, and none of that clears out unaided, no matter how long it is left. Once the filter has been cleaned — or renewed, where required — clean diesel is added, and finally your vehicle is tested. The engine is fired up next and tested to confirm it runs smoothly, all before our engineers head off.
Unstarted vehicles usually mean a half-hour job from arrival. The equipment is safe on a busy forecourt, and hushed enough for a driveway after dark. Nothing in advance; you settle up that day. At the end, a VAT invoice and the report from the engineer go to you for your insurer. Before we get there, have a look at your policy; plenty include cover for misfuelling.
About Cunnery itself
Cunnery is a suburban area situated on the riverside in Shropshire, with a mix of detached housing and a population of around 2598 residents. Cunnery sits at an elevation of 200 metres, near the market town of Church Stretton and other nearby places such as Worldsend and Ashbrook. Cunnery is located approximately 28.7 miles from Wolverhampton and 134.4 miles from London, in the West Midlands region. Cunnery remains a residential community with a scenic riverside setting.
Cunnery and Shropshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Over SY postcodes, the vans that cover Cunnery — a residential suburb — work the nearby places too, Ashbrook and Worldsend among them. The van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting SY6 6.
The vehicle stays put. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Old Rectory Wood, a side street close to St Laurence, Church Stretton: we drain the vehicle where it stands. Assuming won't help behind The Square, on a border, or anywhere awkward to describe; phone and check.
In short, for Cunnery drivers
Read the cap before you pour. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, anywhere across Shropshire, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank anyway — and so leave the vehicle off then phone 0333 366 0103.