East Stoke: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? Then set this page aside for now, keep the ignition and engine off, and phone 0333 366 0103. Caught before the motor runs, it is normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is in East Stoke. The remainder of this page explains why it occurs and how to make sure it does not — handy if you are reading ahead of time.
AdBlue in a diesel car: two tanks, two fillers
Not one liquid but two: that's how many modern diesels near East Stoke and West Stoke run, with diesel feeding your motor. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Every tank comes with a filler of its own. Under one flap, side by side: that is the arrangement on many motors. On others, AdBlue's filler is under the bonnet or in your boot instead. At the pump, the diesel side is topped up all the time. A driver who has to stop and work out where it goes normally fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less often. That gap is where the slip lives.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank happens around East Stoke
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
Haste follows from the warning. The vehicle warns you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank sends the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up happens in a rush, before work on a driveway off Orchid Acre Close, or on the way home in the car park outside The Kings Arms.
The old car's cap is where the hand goes — but a hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers elsewhere. That is a second thing: a strange vehicle.
Nothing halts the pour after it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Montacute or the middle of East Stoke: it takes the same few seconds either way.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Whether a East Stoke forecourt or a drive out in Little Norton, spend a few seconds on these before anything goes in.
- Check the cap rather than going by position: AdBlue ones are frequently blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps normally are not.
- Plenty of motors give AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- A label inside your fuel flap frequently shows which fuel goes where, on plenty of cars. Look for it.
- Cannot find it next to your diesel inlet? Then check below the bonnet or in the boot — the owner's manual says where.
- The previous driver knows. Check when you collect a hire car or company car — at Yeovil Pen Mill's car park, perhaps — rather than when the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
Wherever in Somerset the light comes on, here is a routine for the day.
- Not in a rush on the side of East Stoke, not on a slope, not with your motor running: park and switch off first.
- Silly as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew the cap works — once you have located your filler and read it.
- The diesel cap stays on. When the two sit under a flap, confirm it's closed before the bottle comes up.
- Finish once the tank is topped up or the bottle is empty; before that, tip gently using the own spout.
- Before you start your car, close the cap and check again that the diesel cap was never came off.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Never go on to stage five.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank around East Stoke already?
Brief order, then. First: the motor remains off. Do not switch the ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Thinning it with more diesel fails, since AdBlue settles to the bottom rather than blending — and that's where your fuel is drawn from.
If you're on a forecourt, whether it's the Murco or the BP, ask the attendants to help roll the car clear of the pump. If you are on your own drive in East Stoke, leave the vehicle where it is.
Where the engine has been run already, pull over safely then switch the car off. On the M5, under 15 miles from East Stoke, that means the next junction. Roughly how far did it go? Crossing East Stoke is less work than a run of under 25 miles to Wells, and so say.
When our technicians turn up around East Stoke, what takes place?
Our technicians come to the car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside All Saints Church School, close to St Mary the Virgin or on your own driveway. What liquid got in, the quantity, and if it ran: our technicians ask because those answers set the work and price. That quote comes on the call, ahead of any van leaving.
Next: a drain, then a full flush of the entire system. More than with petrol, it counts with AdBlue: crystals build up, certain metals are attacked, and none of that washes away on its own, however long it is left. The filter cleaned or, where it must be, swapped; fresh diesel in; then a test of your car. We do not go until it has been fired up and is running smoothly.
With pumps safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs where your motor has not run need roughly half an hour after our technicians arrive. Your insurer usually wants the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and you get both at the end. Payment is on the day, with no money upfront. It is worth checking your insurance while we travel to you: misfuelling cover comes with plenty of policies.
About East Stoke
East Stoke is a small suburban area in inland Somerset, situated near the towns of Montacute and Stoke sub Hamdon. East Stoke has a relatively low elevation of 56 metres and is located approximately 18 miles from the city of Wells. East Stoke is characterized by its predominantly semi-detached housing stock, which is typical of many suburban areas in the region. East Stoke remains a quiet residential community, with nearby Highway and other villages providing local amenities.
AdBlue drains round East Stoke, and Somerset beyond
East Stoke is a residential suburb, and the teams that cover it also work the places near it, Highway and Stoke sub Hamdon among them, across the TA postcode area. Quote a postcode beginning TA14 6, and the van gets there quickest.
No need to move the vehicle. Our engineers drain it where it is — a side street close to Montacute Castle, a lay-by on the way to Hedgecock Hill Wood, a driveway. Guessing won't help at the back of Motacute Village Hall, close to a border, or anywhere hard to pin down; phone and ask.
The short version for East Stoke drivers
First, the cap; after that, the pour. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, anywhere across Somerset, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank anyway — and so leave it off then phone 0333 366 0103.