Why It Occurs and How to Avoid It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Eve Hill
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case set this page down a moment, leave your ignition and engine off, and phone 0333 366 0103. Caught before the engine runs, it is generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is in Eve Hill. Not happened yet? Further down, the rest of the page covers the reasons it happens and the ways to avoid it altogether.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle, and its separate tank
Diesel feeds the motor — yet plenty of modern diesels driven about Eve Hill and Old Dock carry another liquid too. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into the exhaust stream and cleans it.
Each tank comes with a filler of its own. Some vehicles put the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; a lot more have both together behind one flap. Filling your diesel side at the petrol pump happens all the time. Far less regularly, the AdBlue side gets filled — mostly from a bottle, by someone thinking about where it goes. That gap is where the error lives.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank occurs in Eve Hill
Rarely is it carelessness: normally three things coincide.
On a driveway off Pelham Drive before work, or in the car park at The Hilly House heading home: that's where the rushed top-up happens. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue gets low the car warns you, and once it's empty, limp mode kicks in.
The old car's cap is where your hand goes — but a hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers somewhere else. That's the second thing: a strange car.
A spouted bottle meets no resistance at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. And so the pour, after started, keeps on. Whether it happens in New Dock or the middle of Eve Hill, it's the same few seconds.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Before you tip anything, whether on a drive in Springs Mire or a forecourt around Eve Hill, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap usually isn't. Read it rather than going by where it sits.
- Plenty of vehicles fit AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- Lift the filler flap and check for a label — plenty of motors mark which belongs in each inlet right there.
- The handbook says which it lives if the filler is not next to your diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- The person who drove the vehicle last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park at Tipton, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
The day the light comes on, wherever around West Midlands, follow this routine.
- Turn off once parked — level ground, engine stopped, and never rushed beside Occupation Street on the verge.
- Silly as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew the cap works — once you have found the filler and read the cap.
- The diesel cap stays on. Where the two share a flap, confirm it is shut before lifting the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Only after that, start your car: close the cap, check once more, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
Find at the second or third stage that the bottle went in the wrong tank? That's where you stop. Skip stage five entirely.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Eve Hill?
The short order of things, beginning with no starting your motor. On plenty of diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so don't switch it on. Filling up with diesel will not dilute it: rather than mixing, AdBlue drops to the bottom of that tank, right where the fuel is drawn from.
If you are on a forecourt, whether it's the Texaco or the Esso, ask the staff to help roll your car away from the petrol pump. Your own drive around Eve Hill is the place it stays.
Already started? Stop when it's sensible, then turn off. Leave the M5 — under 5 miles out of Eve Hill — at the first exit. Mileage counts — a quick hop across Eve Hill is a smaller job than driving under 10 miles to Wolverhampton — so tell us about how far it went.
When we arrive in Eve Hill, what occurs?
Our van reaches your car wherever it stopped — your own drive, near St James, Eve Hill, or by Jesson's Church of England Primary School. Both the work and the price rest on three answers — what liquid, which amount, and if it's run — so we ask. During the phone call itself, you hear the price — before dispatch.
Emptying that tank comes next, followed by a full flush of the fuel system. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not wash out on its own. Testing is at the end: before that, fresh diesel goes in, and the filter is cleaned or changed if necessary. Then our technicians fire it up and make sure it runs smoothly before leaving.
Unstarted cars mostly mean a half-hour visit after arrival. The kit is safe on a busy filling station, and hushed enough for a driveway after dark. No money upfront; you settle up on the day. Afterwards, a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer are handed to you for your insurer. It is worth checking your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with plenty of policies.
About Eve Hill itself
Eve Hill is a suburban area in the West Midlands, situated near the River Tame and close to the city of Wolverhampton. Eve Hill has a mix of semi-detached housing and local amenities, with nearby places including New Dock and Priory. Eve Hill sits at an elevation of around 208 metres, overlooking the surrounding landscape. Eve Hill is located approximately 5 miles from Wolverhampton city centre and about 109 miles northwest of London.
AdBlue drains across West Midlands, Eve Hill included
Being a residential suburb, Eve Hill shares its vans surrounding places — London Fields, Priory — all the way through DY postcodes and the surrounding area around them. A postcode starting DY1 2 gets the van to you fastest.
Your car remains put. Anywhere it sits — near Dudley Leisure Centre, in a layby heading to Black Country Millennium Forest, at home — that is where it gets cleared. Assuming doesn't help behind Wellington Road Community Centre, close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe; ring and ask.
The short version for Eve Hill drivers
Tip no AdBlue till you've read the cap. Still AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will empty it wherever it is, wherever across West Midlands: keep it off and ring 0333 366 0103.