Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in East End: Why It Happens
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your motor and the ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103. In East End, catching it before your motor runs normally leaves draining and a full flush where it stands. Reading before the event? In that case the rest explains how it happens and what to prevent it happening at all.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel car need its own filler?
Plenty of newer diesels in Rushcombe Bottom, like those in East End, carry on two fluids; the engine gets only your diesel. The exhaust, not your motor, is where AdBlue ends up: sprayed into the gas to clean them, from its own tank.
Each tank has its own filler. On a lot of vehicles the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in your boot or under the bonnet. Diesel gets filled on each forecourt call-out, again and again. Someone who has to stop and work out where it goes usually tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less regularly. That gap is where the mistake lives.
AdBlue in your diesel tank in East End: how it happens
Seldom is it carelessness: usually three things coincide.
On a drive off Wayground Road before work, or in the car park at Lambs' Green Inn on the way home: that is where the rushed top-up takes place. Why the rush? As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and if it is gone, limp mode kicks in.
Then your car is strange. A hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and your hand reaches 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 tip, once started, keeps on. Whether it occurs in Lambs Green or the middle of East End, it is the same few seconds.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
Before you tip anything, whether on a driveway in Mount Pleasant or a forecourt in East End, check these. They take a few seconds.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap usually isn't. Read it instead of going by where it sits.
- Check the size: the smaller filler neck is, on many cars, the AdBlue one.
- A label inside your fuel flap often says which fuel goes where, on many cars. Look for it.
- The handbook shows where it is if your filler isn't next to your diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- Picking up a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park at Hamworthy? Check with whoever drove the vehicle last before you set off, not once the light comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
Anywhere in Dorset the light comes on, this is a routine for that day.
- Stop on level, motor off, with time in hand — never rushing on the side of Pine Road.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and it works.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave the vehicle on.
- Slowly does it, through the bottle's own spout, until it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Only then, start the car: close the cap, check again, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Never go on to step five.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank around East End already?
Do not start the motor: that is where the short order of things starts. Keep your ignition off too, since on plenty of diesels switching it on alone starts your fuel pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where the fuel is sucked from — so do not top up with diesel to thin it.
On a forecourt — Esso, BP or another — the attendants will normally help roll the car clear, if you ask. Leave it where it is if you're on your own driveway in East End.
If your engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. Leave the M27 — under 25 miles out of East End — at the next exit. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Salisbury, under 25 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across East End.
What occurs when our engineers arrive around East End
Our engineers come to the vehicle wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside Rushcombe First School, close to Corfe Mullen Cemetery Chapel or on your own drive. Which liquid was put in, the amount, and whether it ran: we ask because the replies set both work and price. You hear that price on the phone, before anyone sets off.
Then the tank is cleared and your system flushed thoroughly. Not like petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and eats at certain fuel-system metals, and neither clears out unaided. That is why it counts more. Once the filter is cleaned — or replaced, if needed — clean diesel goes in, and then the car is tested. Before we leave, we start the engine and make sure that it is running smoothly.
Unrun cars mostly mean a half-hour visit after the moment we arrive. The kit is fine on a busy forecourt, and quiet enough for a driveway late at night. Nothing in advance; you settle up that day. At the end, the VAT invoice and the report from the engineer go to you for your insurer. Before we get there, have a look at your policy; many carry cover for misfuelling.
About East End, briefly
East End is a suburban area in Dorset, situated inland at an elevation of 58 metres, and is located near several nearby places including Lambs Green, Happy Bottom, and Ashington. East End has a population of approximately 1005 residents and is characterized by predominantly detached housing. East End is positioned near the city of Salisbury, which is around 21.8 miles away, and is also about 95.6 miles from London.
AdBlue drains around East End and across Dorset
Throughout BH postcodes, the teams that cover East End — a residential suburb — work the nearby locations too, Ashington and Happy Bottom included. The van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting BH21 3.
Moving the vehicle isn't necessary. Draining happens on the spot, whether a driveway, a road near Lake Farm Roman fort, or a layby towards Happy Bottom Nature Reseve. Ring and ask rather than assuming if you are near a border, or somewhere hard to explain, like the back of The chapel in the valley.
In short, for East End drivers
First, the cap; after that, the tip. Even so AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will empty it wherever it stands, wherever around Dorset: switch it off then phone 0333 366 0103.