Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Ewyas Harold: Why It Happens
Leave your motor and ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103 first — reading can wait when AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Around Ewyas Harold, catching it before the engine turns usually means draining and a thorough flush on the spot. If you're reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it does not.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel vehicle
Diesel goes to the motor — but many newer diesels seen around Ewyas Harold and Dulas carry another liquid too. Your exhaust, not your motor, is where AdBlue ends up: dosed into the fumes to clean them, from a separate tank.
Each tank has its own filler. Other motors keep the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; plenty of others place both side by side behind one flap. At the pump, the diesel side is topped up all the time. Much less regularly, the AdBlue side gets filled — normally from a bottle, by someone working out where it goes. Mistakes happen in that gap between them.
Ewyas Harold: how AdBlue in your diesel tank takes place
Carelessness seldom causes it. Instead is three things coming up at once.
Hurry comes from the warning. The car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank puts it into limp mode — so the top-up gets done in a rush, before work on a driveway off Bridge Farm, or on the way home in the car park outside The Temple Bar Inn.
Then the car is new. A hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and the hand gets to for the cap it would have used on the old one.
Lastly, the spout fits: a diesel filler or AdBlue one, it slides in just as readily, and once the pour starts, no part halts it. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Ewyas Harold or out in Callowside.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Check these before pouring, at a forecourt in Ewyas Harold or a driveway out in Abbey Dore. Seconds, that's all.
- Check the cap rather than going by where it sits: AdBlue ones are regularly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones normally aren't.
- Check the size: the smaller neck is, on many cars, the AdBlue one.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Many cars say there which fuel goes where.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that's where the filler is if it is not by your diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- The person who drove the vehicle last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park at Abergavenny, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
Wherever in Herefordshire the light comes on, this is a routine for the day.
- Pull in somewhere level, motor off, with time in hand — not rushing on the side of Prill Road.
- Find the AdBlue filler, read the cap, and speak the word "AdBlue" out loud as unscrewing it. It seems daft. It does the trick.
- The two behind a single flap? Then make sure the lid on your diesel filler is still shut before lifting the bottle.
- Finish once your tank fills or the bottle runs dry; until then, pour gently through its own spout.
- Before starting the car, close the cap and look again that your diesel cap was never came off.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Don't carry on to step five.
Ewyas Harold: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Don't start the motor: that is how the short order of things starts. On plenty of diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so don't switch the car on. Thinning it with more diesel won't work, because AdBlue settles to the bottom instead of blending — and that's where the fuel is sucked from.
On a forecourt — Murco, another forecourt nearby or another — the staff will normally help roll the vehicle clear, when you ask. Leave it where it is if you're on your own drive in Ewyas Harold.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if the engine has already run. The next exit is where to leave if you are on the M50, under 15 miles from Ewyas Harold. A short hop across Ewyas Harold is a smaller job than a run towards Hereford, under 15 miles away, so tell us roughly how far it went.
Ewyas Harold: what happens when our engineers get there
Our engineers come to the vehicle wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside Ewyas Harold Primary School, close to Ewyas Harold Village Sign or on your own driveway. Both the work and the price rest on three answers — what liquid, which amount, and whether it's run — so our technicians ask. No one heads out before you've had the price by phone.
Your system is then cleaned thoroughly, after your tank is emptied. Not like petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and eats at certain fuel-system metals, and neither washes away unaided. That is why it matters more. Once your filter is flushed — or renewed, where needed — clean diesel is added, and then the car is tested. After that our technicians fire it up and check it runs smoothly before leaving.
Unstarted vehicles usually mean a half-hour job from arrival. The kit is fine on a busy filling station, and hushed enough for a driveway late at night. No money in advance; you settle up that day. At the end, the VAT invoice and the report from the engineer are handed to you for your insurer. Misfuelling cover is part of many insurance policies — and so use the wait to look at yours.
About Ewyas Harold itself
Ewyas Harold is a village in Herefordshire, situated on the River Dore at an elevation of 76 metres. Ewyas Harold lies near the cities of Hereford and Ross-on-Wye, and is surrounded by other small settlements like Callowside and Pontrilas. Ewyas Harold has a population of around 567 people, predominantly living in detached houses. Ewyas Harold is located approximately 122 miles west of London, in the rural West Midlands region.
AdBlue drains across Herefordshire, Ewyas Harold included
Ewyas Harold is a village, and our vans that cover it also work the towns near it, Elmdale and Pontrilas among them, across the HR postcode area. Quickest of all: give a HR2 0 postcode to the van.
Shifting your car isn't necessary. Draining happens right there, be it a driveway, a road by Ewyas Harold Baptist Church, or a lay-by on the way to Graig Wood. Ring and ask instead of assuming if you're near a border, or somewhere hard to explain, like the back of Ewyas Harold, St Michael & All Saints.
In short, for Ewyas Harold people
Read the cap before you pour. AdBlue in your diesel tank regardless? Leave it off then phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, throughout Herefordshire.