AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Eastover: How It Occurs and How to Prevent It
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the motor and the ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a full flush, carried out right where your vehicle stands in Eastover, is normally all it takes if caught before the engine runs. Not happened yet? Further down, the page explains the why it happens and the how to avoid it altogether.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle, and its separate tank
Not one liquid but two: that is what many newer diesels near Eastover and Northfield run, with diesel feeding the engine. AdBlue goes to the exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
There's a filler for every tank. Plenty of vehicles share a single flap for both, whereas some put the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. Diesel gets filled on each filling station call-out, week in, week out. Seldom filled, AdBlue usually comes from a bottle, poured by someone who must stop and think what cap it needs. That gap is where the error lives.
Eastover: how AdBlue in your diesel tank occurs
Rarely is it carelessness: normally three things coincide.
Hurry comes from the warning. The vehicle tells you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank sends it into limp mode — so the top-up happens in a rush, before work on a driveway off Blake Place, or heading home in the car park outside Cobblestones.
Then your car is new. A hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and your hand hits for the cap it would have used on the old one.
A spout-topped bottle finds no resistance at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. And so the tip, after started, carries on. Bridgwater or the heart of Eastover: it is the same few seconds either way.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
A couple of seconds is all these take — so run through them before you tip anything, on a driveway in Hamp or a forecourt in Eastover.
- Where it sits can mislead; the cap does not. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or bear the name "AdBlue" — diesel caps usually don't.
- The size. On many cars the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Lift the flap and look for a label — plenty of motors show which belongs in each filler just there.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that is where your filler is if it is not by your diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- Check with the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — if you collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside Bridgwater.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
Anywhere around Somerset 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 Monmouth Street.
- Silly as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" aloud while you unscrew the cap does the trick — once you've found the filler and read it.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave the car on.
- Slowly is best, through the bottle's own spout, until it's full or the bottle runs out.
- Before starting your car, close the cap and look a second time that the diesel cap never opened off.
Stop there if you find, at stage two or three, that you've already poured into the diesel side. Never carry on to stage five.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Eastover already?
What follows is a short order of things, beginning with no starting the engine. Do not switch your ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Topping up with diesel won't thin it: instead, AdBlue drops to the base of that tank, right where the fuel is taken from.
The staff at Sainsbury's, Asda or another forecourt will normally help to push the car clear when you ask. At home in Eastover? Then the car stays where it is.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if your motor has already run. Eastover sits under 3 miles from the M5; there, take the next junction. Mileage counts — a short hop across Eastover makes a smaller job than driving under 25 miles to Wells — so tell us about how far it went.
Eastover: what happens when we arrive
Our technicians come to the vehicle wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside Eastover Primary School, near St John the Baptist's Church or on your own drive. Those replies determine the work and the quote, so our technicians ask what got in, roughly how much, and if it has run. During the call itself, you are told our price — ahead of anything else.
Next: a drain, then a full flush of the whole 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 the flush counts more here than with petrol. Testing is last: before that, fresh diesel goes in, and your filter is cleaned or replaced if necessary. Before we leave, our technicians start the engine and check that it is running correctly.
Most jobs are finished in roughly half an hour once we get there, as long as the engine has not run — and the pumps our technicians use are safe on a busy forecourt yet quiet at night beside a house. The insurer usually wants the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and both are yours at the end. Payment comes on the day, with no deposit. Misfuelling cover is part of plenty of insurance policies — and so use the wait to look at yours.
About Eastover, briefly
Eastover is a suburban area located on the riverside in Somerset, with a mix of terraced housing and other residential properties. Eastover sits at a low elevation of around 11 metres, close to the nearby towns of Bridgwater and Sydenham. Eastover is situated near the city of Wells, which is approximately 16 miles away, and is part of the larger South West region of England. Eastover has a population of around 6204 people, making it a relatively small but established community.
Eastover and Somerset: AdBlue drains across the area
Eastover is a residential suburb, and our vans that cover it also work the places near it, Sydenham and Newtown among them, across the TA postcode area. A postcode starting TA6 5 gets the van to you fastest.
No need to move your car. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street near Bridgwater Methodist Church, a lay-by on the way to Eastover Park, a drive. Guessing doesn't help behind Bridgwater Community Church, on a boundary, or anywhere hard to describe; phone and check.
For Eastover people, the short version
First, the cap; then, the pour. AdBlue in your diesel tank after all? Keep it off then ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, across Somerset.