Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in East Bergholt: Why It Happens
Stop reading a minute if your diesel tank already holds AdBlue in it: ignition off, engine off, and phone 0333 366 0103. Normally, if your engine hasn't run, it is drained and thoroughly flushed where your vehicle is in East Bergholt. Not happened yet? Below, the page covers the reasons it takes place and the ways to avoid it altogether.
AdBlue in a diesel car: two tanks, two fillers
Many modern diesels around Stratford St Mary, like those in East Bergholt, carry on two fluids; your engine takes only the diesel. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into your exhaust gas to clean it.
Each tank has its own filler. Some motors keep the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; a lot more have the two side by side under one flap. At the pump, your diesel side gets filled constantly. A driver who has to stop and think where it goes usually tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less regularly. It is in the gap that the error lives.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank occur in East Bergholt?
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low your car tells you, and if it runs out completely, your vehicle drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off The Street before work, or in the car park at The Red Lion on the way home.
Next, the hand reaches for the cap it knew on the old vehicle — since a rental car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers where 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, and so nothing stops the tip after it has started. Lattinford Hill or the heart of East Bergholt: it is the same few seconds either way.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
A few seconds is all the checks take — so run through them before you pour anything, on a drive in Bacons Green or a forecourt around East Bergholt.
- Position can mislead; the cap doesn't. AdBlue ones are often blue or carry the word "AdBlue" — diesel ones normally do not.
- Plenty of cars give AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- Look inside your fuel flap: plenty of vehicles have a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- Can't find it next to your diesel filler? Then check beneath the bonnet or inside your boot — the owner's manual will say which.
- The previous driver knows. Check as you collect a hire car or fleet car — at Manningtree's car park, perhaps — not once the warning comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
Anywhere across Suffolk the light comes on, this is a routine for the day.
- Stop on level, motor off, with time in hand — not rushing on the side of Hadleigh Road.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it works.
- The diesel cap stays on. When the two sit under a flap, confirm it is shut before the bottle comes up.
- Stop when the tank is topped up or the bottle runs dry; until then, pour slowly using the own spout.
- Before starting your car, shut the cap and look a second time that the diesel cap was never came off.
Find at the second or third stage that AdBlue went into the wrong tank? That's where you stop. Skip step five entirely.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around East Bergholt?
The short order of things, starting with no starting your engine. Leave the ignition off too, since on plenty of diesels switching it on alone runs your fuel pump. Don't top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where the fuel is sucked from.
On a forecourt — the nearest petrol station, Esso Fuel or another — the attendants will normally help push the car clear, when you ask. If you're on your own drive around East Bergholt, leave the car where it stands.
Already started? Pull over when it's sensible, then turn off. The next exit is where to leave if you are on the M11, under 50 miles from East Bergholt. A short hop across East Bergholt is a smaller job than a run towards Colchester, under 10 miles away, and so tell us roughly how far it went.
What occurs when our engineers arrive around East Bergholt
Outside East Bergholt Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, near Lambe School Hall or on your own drive: wherever the vehicle has stopped, our engineers come to it. Those answers decide this work and our price, and so our engineers ask what went in, roughly how much, and whether it's run. That quote is given on the call, ahead of any van leaving.
After that: draining, then a thorough flush of the whole system. Much more than with petrol, it counts with AdBlue: crystals build up, some metals corrode, and nothing washes away unaided, no matter how long it is left. Your filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the vehicle is tested. We don't leave until it has been fired up and is running correctly.
With pumps safe on a busy forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs in which the motor hasn't run take about half an hour after we are there. No money in advance; you settle up that day. At the end, the VAT invoice and the report from the engineer go to you for the insurer. Before we get there, take a look at your policy; plenty include cover for misfuelling.
About East Bergholt, for a moment
East Bergholt is a small village in Suffolk, situated near the coast and approximately 58 miles from London. East Bergholt sits at an elevation of 38 metres, close to the Stour Estuary and near the historic town of Colchester. East Bergholt is characterised by its detached housing and rural setting, with nearby places including Lattinford Hill and Dedham. East Bergholt has a population of around 662 residents.
AdBlue drains across Suffolk, East Bergholt included
East Bergholt is a coastal village, and our vans that cover it also work the towns around it, Dedham and Holton St Mary among them, across the CO postcode area. Give a postcode beginning CO7 6, and our van arrives quickest.
Your car doesn't need to shift. Our engineers drain it where it is — a side street close to East Bergholt Village Sign, a lay-by on the way to RSPB Flatford Wildlife Garden, a drive. Assuming doesn't help behind Congregational Church, on a border, or anywhere awkward to pin down; ring and ask.
The short version for East Bergholt drivers
Before you tip, read the cap. Even so AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will drain it where it stands, wherever around Suffolk: keep the car off and call 0333 366 0103.