AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Draycott: How It Happens and How to Avoid It
Leave your motor and ignition off then call 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait when AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Caught before the engine runs, it's usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is in Draycott. The rest of this page explains why it occurs and how to ensure it doesn't — useful if you are reading before it has happened.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel motor need its own filler?
Many current diesels on the roads round Draycott and Cheddar carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your motor. The exhaust, not the engine, is where AdBlue goes: dosed into the gas to clean it, from its own tank.
Separate tanks, separate fillers. Under one flap, side by side: that is the arrangement on a lot of cars. On others, AdBlue's filler sits beneath the bonnet or in the boot instead. Filling the diesel side at the petrol pump happens all the time. Seldom topped up, AdBlue usually comes out of a bottle, poured by someone who has to stop and think what filler to use. That gap is where the mistake lives.
AdBlue in the diesel tank in Draycott: how it happens
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
Haste follows from the warning. The vehicle warns you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank puts it into limp mode — so the top-up happens quickly, before work on a driveway off The Street, or heading home in the car park at Strawberry Special.
The old car's cap is where the hand reaches — but a rental car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers elsewhere. That is the second thing: a new motor.
Third, the bottle goes in: diesel filler or AdBlue one, it goes in just as readily, and once the tip begins, no part stops it. Whether it occurs in Rodney Stoke or the middle of Draycott, it's the same few seconds.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Before you tip anything, whether on a drive in Lippiatt or a forecourt in Draycott, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- Check the cap instead of going by position: AdBlue ones are frequently blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones usually are not.
- Check the size: the smaller neck is, on many cars, the AdBlue one.
- Look inside your fuel flap: many cars carry a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- The handbook shows where it is when your filler isn't next to the diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- Collecting a hire or company car, say at the car park at Worle? Check with whoever drove the car last before you set off, rather than once the light goes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
Anywhere in Somerset the light comes on, this is a routine for that day.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with the engine running, and not in a rush on the side of Wells Road.
- Daft as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew the cap works — once you've found the filler and read it.
- The diesel cap stays on. When both sit under a flap, confirm it is shut before the bottle comes up.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Only then, start the vehicle: close the cap, check a second time, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Step five is out.
Draycott: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Do not start the motor: that is how the short order of things begins. Do not switch your ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Diluting it with more diesel fails, because AdBlue settles to the bottom instead of mixing — and that's where your fuel is drawn from.
If you are at a forecourt, whether it is the Murco or the BP, ask the staff to help roll your car clear of the petrol pump. If you're on your own drive around Draycott, leave it where it stands.
If the engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. The next junction means the place to leave when you are on the M5, under 10 miles from Draycott. About how far did it go? Crossing Draycott is less work than a run of under 10 miles to Wells, and so say.
What occurs when we arrive around Draycott
We come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside Draycott & Rodney Stoke Church of England First School, close to St Peter or on your own drive. Both the work and the price rest on three answers — what fluid, which quantity, and whether it has run — so we ask. That quote comes over the phone, ahead of any van leaving.
Then your tank is emptied and your system purged thoroughly. 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. The filter flushed or, if needed, replaced; fresh diesel in; and then a check of your vehicle. We don't leave until it has been started and is running correctly.
Using pumps safe on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs in which the engine hasn't run need about half an hour once our engineers arrive. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. It is worth checking your policy while we travel to you: misfuelling cover is included with many policies.
About Draycott itself
Draycott is a small village in inland Somerset, situated near the Mendip Hills and approximately 5.5 miles from the city of Wells. Draycott has a population of around 1069 people and is characterised by predominantly detached housing. Draycott sits at an elevation of 49 metres, in a rural area surrounded by nearby places such as Rodney Stoke and Nyland. Draycott is located about 114.4 miles west of London, in the South West of England.
AdBlue drains in Draycott and across Somerset
Throughout BS postcodes, our vans that cover Draycott — a rural village — work the surrounding locations too, Bradley Cross and Nyland among them. Quickest of all: quote a BS27 3 postcode to the van.
The vehicle stays where it is. Draining happens right there, whether a drive, a street near St Leonard, or a layby towards Stoke Woods. Tricky to pin down, like the back of ROC Nuclear fallout shelter (site of)? By a border? Checking beats assuming, and so ring.
In short, for Draycott people
First, the cap; after that, the tip. Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, anywhere around Somerset, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank anyway — and so leave the car off then ring 0333 366 0103.