Earlsdon: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
Keep your motor and ignition off then call 0333 366 0103 now — reading can wait when AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Around Earlsdon, finding it before the engine turns normally means a drain and a thorough flush on the spot. Reading in advance? In that case the rest covers why it happens and what to prevent it happening at all.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel motor need its own filler?
Diesel feeds your engine — yet plenty of modern diesels seen about Earlsdon and Westwood Gardens hold another liquid as well. Its own tank keeps it, and from there it is sent to the exhaust, where spraying cleans the gas.
Every tank has one filler of its own. Under one flap, next to each other: that is the arrangement on a lot of cars. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler is beneath the bonnet or in the boot instead. Diesel gets filled at every forecourt visit, again and again. Rarely topped up, AdBlue normally comes out of a bottle, poured by someone who has to stop and think what filler it needs. It's in that gap that the error lives.
AdBlue in the diesel tank around Earlsdon: how it occurs
It's rarely carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
First, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a message from the car, and letting it run out means limp mode — hence a rushed top-up, maybe before work off Berkeley Road North, perhaps outside The City Arms on the way home after work.
Then your car is new. A hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and your hand gets to for the cap it would have used on the old one.
A spouted bottle finds no resistance at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. So the pour, after started, carries on. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Earlsdon or out in Canley Gardens.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
Whether a Earlsdon forecourt or a driveway out in Chapel Fields, spend a few seconds over these before anything goes in.
- Read the cap instead of going by where it sits: AdBlue caps are frequently blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones normally are not.
- Check the size: the smaller filler neck is, on many cars, the AdBlue one.
- A label inside the fuel flap frequently says which fuel goes where, on plenty of vehicles. Check for it.
- Can't find it beside the diesel filler? In that case check beneath the bonnet or inside your boot — the handbook will say where.
- The previous driver will know. Check when you collect a hire car or company car — from Coventry's car park, perhaps — not when the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
On the day the warning comes on — wherever it is around West Midlands — a simple routine to use.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with the engine running, and not in a rush on the side of Mayfield Road.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it does the trick.
- Both under one flap? Then confirm the lid on the diesel filler stays shut before lifting the bottle.
- Slowly does it, through the bottle's own spout, till it's full or the bottle runs out.
- Shut the cap, then look again — confirm the diesel cap remained shut the whole time. Only then, start the car.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Leave out stage five entirely.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, in Earlsdon?
Do not start the engine: that's how the short order of things begins. The fuel pump runs on plenty of diesels as soon as the ignition goes on — and so leave it off. Filling up with diesel won't weaken it: rather than mixing, AdBlue drops to the base of the tank, just where fuel is drawn from.
The staff at Esso, Morrisons or another forecourt will normally lend a hand pushing the car away if you ask. Your own drive in Earlsdon is where it should stay.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if your motor has already run. Earlsdon sits under 5 miles from the M6; on it, use the next junction. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Coventry, under 3 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Earlsdon.
When we turn up around Earlsdon, what occurs?
By Earlsdon Primary School, close to Earlsdon Methodist Church or on your own driveway: wherever the vehicle has stopped, our technicians come to it. Our engineers ask what went in, roughly how much, and whether it's run, since the answers determine this work and the quote. That quote comes on the call, ahead of any van leaving.
Next: a drain, then a full flush of the entire system. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not wash out on its own — which is why that counts more with AdBlue than with petrol. The filter flushed or, if needed, swapped; clean diesel in; and then a test of the vehicle. Then our engineers start it and check it runs correctly before we leave.
Using pumps fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs in which the motor has not run take roughly half an hour after our technicians arrive. Paying happens on the day, not upfront, and you are given the documents your insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it is worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Earlsdon
Earlsdon is a suburban area located near Coventry, with a mix of terraced housing and local amenities. Earlsdon sits at an elevation of around 100 metres, close to the city centre and nearby places such as Canley Gardens and Spon End. Earlsdon has a population of approximately 9462 people, and is situated about 1.1 miles from Coventry. Earlsdon is also near Beechwood Gardens, a local green space.
AdBlue drains in Earlsdon and across West Midlands
As a residential suburb, Earlsdon shares its vans nearby places — Spon End, Beechwood Gardens — all the way through CV postcodes and the wider area around them. Quote a postcode that starts CV5 6, and the van gets there quickest.
There's no need to move the vehicle. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Spencer Park, a side street near Criterion Theatre: we drain the vehicle where it sits. If you're close to a border, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of Earlsdon Library, ring and ask rather than guessing.
In short, for Earlsdon people
Pour nothing till you have read the cap. Still AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will drain it where it is, anywhere around West Midlands: switch the vehicle off and phone 0333 366 0103.