AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Far Bletchley: How It Happens and How to Prevent It
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? In that case set this page down for now, leave the ignition and engine off, then ring 0333 366 0103. Around Far Bletchley, finding it before your motor turns normally means draining and a full flush where it stands. The remainder of this page explains why it happens and how to ensure it does not — useful if you are reading before it has happened.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel car
No single liquid but two: that's how many newer diesels around Far Bletchley and Tattenhoe Park carry, with diesel for your engine. AdBlue's own tank keeps it, and from there it goes to the exhaust, and there a spray cleans the gas.
Each tank has its own filler. Many of motors have a single flap for both, while others move the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is topped up at the pump all the time. Far less often, the AdBlue side is filled — mostly from a bottle, by a person thinking about where it goes. The slip lives in that gap.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank occur in Far Bletchley?
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
Hurry follows from the warning. The car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank puts it into limp mode — so the top-up happens quickly, before work on a drive off Windmill Hill Drive, or on the way home in the car park at The Crooked Billet.
Then the vehicle is new. A hire car, a new vehicle 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.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, and so nothing stops the tip once it has started. Whether it happens in Tattenhoe or the middle of Far Bletchley, it's the same few seconds.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
Be it a Far Bletchley forecourt or a drive over in Westcroft, spend a few seconds over these before any goes in.
- Blue and lettering: an AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually does not. Trust the cap, not its position.
- The size. On many cars the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Look inside your fuel flap: plenty of vehicles have a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that is where the filler sits if it is not by the diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- Whoever had it before will know. Ask as you pick up a hire car or company car — at Bletchley's car park, say — rather than when the light appears.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
On the day the warning appears — anywhere you are across Buckinghamshire — a routine to use.
- Park and switch off. Not on a slope, not with the motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Wentworth Way.
- Silly as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew the cap works — after you have found the filler and read the cap.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Stop once that tank fills or the bottle is empty; before that, tip gently through its built-in spout.
- Before you start the vehicle, shut the cap and look again that the diesel cap was never came off.
Spot at stage two or three that it has already gone into your diesel side? Then stop right there. Do not go on to step five.
Far Bletchley: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Don't start your motor: that is where the short order of things starts. Do not switch your ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Diluting it with more diesel won't work, because AdBlue settles to the bottom instead of blending — and that's where your fuel is sucked from.
The staff at BP, Texaco or another forecourt will usually help pushing the car clear when you ask. Leave it where it is if you are on your own drive in Far Bletchley.
Already started? Stop when it's sensible, then turn off. The next junction means the place to come off if you're on the M1, under 10 miles from Far Bletchley. Roughly how far did it go? Hopping across Far Bletchley is smaller work than a trip of under 5 miles towards Milton Keynes, and so tell us.
Our arrival in Far Bletchley, and what occurs next
Our van reaches the vehicle anywhere it has come to rest — your own driveway, beside Chepstow Community Centre, or outside Chestnuts Primary School. We ask what was put in, roughly how much, and if it's run, because the answers decide the work and our price. That quote is given over the phone, before any van leaves.
Then your tank is emptied and the fuel system cleaned thoroughly. Unlike petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and attacks certain fuel-system metals, and neither clears away unaided. Hence it matters more. The filter flushed or, where it must be, replaced; clean diesel in; then a check of the vehicle. Next our engineers fire it up and check it runs properly before leaving.
Unrun vehicles mostly need a half-hour job after arrival. The equipment is fine on a busy forecourt, and quiet enough for a residential street late at night. The insurer usually wants the engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and both are yours once the job is done. Payment is on the day, with no deposit. Wrong-fuel cover is included in plenty of insurance policies — so make use of the wait to check yours.
About Far Bletchley, briefly
Far Bletchley is a suburban area in southern Buckinghamshire, situated near the city of Milton Keynes and approximately 43 miles northwest of London. Far Bletchley sits at an elevation of around 117 metres, with detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation in the area. Far Bletchley is located close to other nearby places such as Tattenhoe, Emerson Valley, and Newton Longville, and has a population of around 2810 residents.
Far Bletchley and Buckinghamshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Far Bletchley is a residential suburb, and our teams that cover it also work the towns around it, Emerson Valley and Newton Longville among them, across the MK postcode area. Quote a postcode beginning MK3 5, and the van gets there fastest.
Shifting the car isn't needed. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to Windmill Hill Golf Centre, a side street near St Andrew Baptist Church: we drain the vehicle where it stands. Ring and ask rather than guessing if you are near a border, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of Tattenhoe Pavilion.
For Far Bletchley drivers, the short version
Read the cap before you pour. Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, anywhere across Buckinghamshire, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank anyway — and so leave the car off and ring 0333 366 0103.