Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Dog Village: Why It Occurs
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case set this page aside a moment, keep the ignition and motor off, then phone 0333 366 0103. Caught before your engine runs, it's normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is around Dog Village. Reading in advance? Then the rest explains how it happens and what to stop it happening at all.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
Plenty of modern diesels on the roads about Dog Village and Higher Burrowtown carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the motor. Your exhaust, not your motor, is where AdBlue ends up: sprayed into the fumes to clean them, from its own tank.
Every tank comes with one filler of its own. Under one flap, side by side: that is the arrangement on a lot of motors. On others, AdBlue's filler sits beneath the bonnet or in the boot instead. At the pump, the diesel side gets filled all the time. Rarely filled, AdBlue normally comes out of a bottle, tipped by someone who has to stop and think which cap to use. The mistake lives in that gap.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank happens around Dog Village
Carelessness rarely causes it. Instead is three things lining up together.
Hurry follows from the warning. Your car warns you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank puts the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up gets done in a rush, before work on a drive off Station Road, or heading home in the car park at Red Lion Inn.
Then, the hand goes for the cap it would have used on the old car — because a rental car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't.
Nothing halts the pour once it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Broadclyst or the middle of Dog Village: it takes the same few seconds either way.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Be it a Dog Village forecourt or a driveway over in Cranbrook, take a few seconds over these before any goes in.
- Position can mislead; the cap does not. AdBlue caps tend to be blue or bear the word "AdBlue" — diesel caps normally don't.
- On many motors, size gives it away: AdBlue has the smaller filler neck.
- Look inside the fuel flap: plenty of motors carry a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- Cannot find it beside your diesel filler? Then look below the bonnet or inside the boot — the owner's manual will say which.
- Collecting a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park at Cranbrook (Devon)? Check with whoever drove the vehicle last before leaving, not once the light goes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
For the day the warning comes on — wherever you are around Devon — a simple routine to use.
- Stop on level, motor off, with time to spare — not hurried on the side of Woodbury View.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after you find the AdBlue filler and read it. Daft, yes, yet it works.
- Both under one flap? Then make sure the lid on the diesel filler is still closed ahead of raising the bottle.
- Gently does it, through the bottle's own spout, till it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check a second time. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the car.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you have already poured into your diesel side. Never carry on to step five.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Dog Village?
What follows is a short order of things, beginning with no starting your motor. Don't switch your ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where the fuel is sucked from — so don't top up with diesel to thin it.
At a forecourt — Murco, Sainsbury's or any other — the attendants will usually help roll the car clear, if you ask. Leave it where it is if you're on your own driveway in Dog Village.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if your engine has already run. On the M5, under a mile from Dog Village, that means the next exit. About how far did it go? Hopping across Dog Village is less work than a run of under 5 miles towards Exeter, so tell us.
Our arrival around Dog Village, and what occurs next
Our van reaches your car wherever it stopped — your own driveway, near A03, or outside Broadclyst Community Primary School. What fluid was put in, the amount, and if it ran: our engineers ask since those replies decide the work and price. That quote comes on the call, ahead of any van leaving.
Draining your tank comes next, followed by a full flush of your system. With AdBlue that matters more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not wash out on its own. Filter cleaned or, if it must be, swapped; clean diesel in; then a test of your car. We don't leave until it has been fired up and is running smoothly.
With pumps fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs where your motor hasn't run take about half an hour once we are there. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Wrong-fuel cover is included in many insurance policies — so use the wait to look at yours.
About Dog Village itself
Dog Village is a suburban area located on the riverside in Devon, with a mix of semi-detached housing and a population of around 1297 residents. Dog Village sits near the city of Exeter, approximately 4.8 miles away, and is close to nearby places such as Broadclyst, Poltimore, and West Clyst. Dog Village has an elevation of 29 metres and is situated in a region with a gentle landscape, typical of the South West of England.
Dog Village and Devon: AdBlue drains across the area
Over EX postcodes, our teams covering Dog Village — a residential suburb — work the surrounding locations too, West Clyst and Poltimore among them. Give a postcode that starts EX5 3, and our van gets there quickest.
Shifting the car is not needed. Wherever it stands — beside Broadclyst Leisure Centre, in a lay-by heading to Moonhill Copse, on a drive — that's where it gets drained. Assuming doesn't help behind Marker's Cottage, on a border, or anywhere hard to pin down; phone and ask.
For Dog Village people, the short version
Always, the cap; after that, the pour. Still AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can drain it wherever it stands, wherever across Devon: keep it off then call 0333 366 0103.