How It Occurs and How to Prevent It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Filwood Park
Leave the motor and ignition off then call 0333 366 0103 now — reading can wait if AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. A drain and a full flush, carried out right where your vehicle stands in Filwood Park, is usually what it needs when found before the motor runs. If you're reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it takes place and how to make sure it does not.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle, and its separate tank
Plenty of modern diesels around Windmill Hill, as well as Filwood Park, carry on two liquids; the motor takes only your diesel. AdBlue's own tank holds it, and from there it is sent to your exhaust, and there spraying cleans the gas.
Each tank has its own filler. Under one flap, next to each other: that is the layout on a lot of motors. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler is under the bonnet or in your boot instead. At the petrol pump, the diesel side is topped up constantly. The AdBlue side is filled far less frequently, usually from a bottle, and usually by somebody who has to stop and think where it goes. That gap is where the slip lives.
Filwood Park: how AdBlue in the diesel tank happens
Carelessness seldom causes it. Instead is three things lining up together.
First, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a message from the car, and letting it run dry leads to limp mode — hence a hurried top-up, maybe before work off Ilminster Avenue, or outside Wessex Flyer on the way home that evening.
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 goes in: a diesel filler or AdBlue one, it goes in as readily, and once the tip begins, no part halts it. Lower Knowle or the heart of Filwood Park: it takes the same few seconds in both.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Look at these first, on a forecourt in Filwood Park or a driveway over in Knowle. A few seconds, that's all.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap normally is not. Read it instead of going by position.
- Look at the size: the smaller neck is, on many cars, the AdBlue one.
- Check inside your fuel flap: many motors have a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- Can't see it next to your diesel inlet? Then check beneath the bonnet or inside your boot — the owner's manual will say which.
- The previous driver will know. Ask as you pick up a hire car or fleet car — from Bedminster's car park, say — rather than when the warning appears.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
The day the light comes on, wherever around Bristol, follow this routine.
- Pull in somewhere level, engine off, with time in hand — never hurried on the side of Connaught Road.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it does the trick.
- The diesel cap remains on. When the two share a flap, confirm it is shut before lifting the bottle.
- Stop once the tank is topped up or the bottle is empty; before that, tip slowly using its own spout.
- Close the cap and check again. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Skip step five altogether.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, around Filwood Park?
The short order of things, starting with no starting the motor. The fuel pump starts on plenty of diesels as soon as your ignition goes on — and so keep it off. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where your fuel is drawn from — so do not top up with diesel to thin it.
At a forecourt — Esso, Asda or any other — the staff will usually help roll the vehicle clear, if you ask. Your own driveway around Filwood Park is where it should stay.
If the motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. On the M32, under 3 miles from Filwood Park, that means the next exit. A short hop across Filwood Park is a smaller job than a run towards Bristol, under 3 miles away, and so tell us roughly how far it went.
Filwood Park: what takes place when we arrive
Our engineers come to the car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside Oasis Academy Connaught, close to Knowle West or on your own driveway. The answers settle this work and our price, so our engineers ask what went in, roughly how much, and whether it's run. No one heads out before you have had the quote by phone.
Your system is then purged thoroughly, once that tank is cleared. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and eats at certain fuel-system metals, and none of it washes away by itself. That is why it counts more. Once the filter is flushed — or replaced, where needed — clean diesel is added, and finally your vehicle gets tested. Before leaving, we start it and confirm that it is running correctly.
Using pumps fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs in which the engine hasn't run take roughly half an hour after our technicians are there. The insurer will ask for an engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and you get both once this job is done. Payment is on the day, with no deposit. It is worth looking at your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover comes with plenty of policies.
About Filwood Park itself
Filwood Park is a suburban area in Bristol, situated near the River Avon and close to the city centre. Filwood Park has a mix of housing types, but semi-detached homes are predominant in the area. Filwood Park is located near several other suburban areas, including Lower Knowle, Knowle Park, and Novers Park, and is about 1.9 miles from Bristol city centre.
AdBlue drains around Filwood Park and across Bristol
Filwood Park is a residential suburb, and our teams that cover it also work the places around it, Knowle Park and Novers Park among them, across the BS postcode area. Our van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting BS4 1.
The vehicle remains put. The drain happens right there, be it a driveway, a road by The Park Centre, or a layby on the way to Melvin Square. Guessing doesn't help at the back of St Barnabas, on a boundary, or anywhere awkward to describe; ring and check.
For Filwood Park people, the short version
First, the cap; then, the pour. AdBlue in your diesel tank regardless? Leave the car off and ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, across Bristol.