Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Findon Valley: Why It Occurs
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your engine and your ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a full flush, carried out right where the car sits in Findon Valley, is usually what it needs if caught before your engine 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 doesn't.
AdBlue in a diesel car, and its separate tank
Plenty of modern diesels in Nepcote, like those in Findon Valley, carry on two fluids; your motor takes just your diesel. Your exhaust, not the engine, is where AdBlue ends up: sprayed into the fumes to clean it, from its own tank.
There is a filler for every tank. Other cars put the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; plenty of others have the two side by side under one flap. Diesel gets filled at each filling station visit, again and again. Much less often, the AdBlue side is topped up — mostly from a bottle, by a person thinking about where it goes. That gap is where the error lives.
Findon Valley: how AdBlue in your diesel tank occurs
It's rarely carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
On a driveway off Ashfold Avenue before work, or in the car park at The Refreshment Rooms on the way home: that is where the hurried top-up takes place. Why the rush? As AdBlue gets low your car tells you, and if it is gone, limp mode follows.
The old car's filler is where the hand reaches — but a hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers somewhere else. That is a second factor: a strange motor.
Lastly, the bottle goes in: diesel filler or AdBlue one, it goes in as easily, and after the tip starts, no part halts it. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Findon Valley or out in High Salvington.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
Be it a Findon Valley forecourt or a driveway out in West Durrington, take a few seconds over these before any is poured in.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is frequently blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap normally isn't. Read it rather than going by position.
- The size. On many cars the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Open the filler flap and check for a label — plenty of vehicles mark which belongs in each inlet just there.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that is where your filler sits if it's not by the diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- Collecting a hire or company car, say at the car park outside West Worthing? Ask the person who drove the car last before you set off, rather than once the light goes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
The day the light comes on, anywhere around West Sussex, use this routine.
- Not in a rush on the side of Findon Road, not on a slope, not with your motor running: park and switch off first.
- Silly as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap works — once you have found your filler and read the cap.
- The two behind one flap? So make sure the cap on the diesel side is still closed before raising the bottle.
- Finish when your tank fills or the bottle runs dry; before that, pour gently using its built-in spout.
- Before you start the vehicle, close the cap and check again that your diesel cap was never came off.
Discover at the second or third stage that AdBlue went in the diesel tank? That's where you stop. Never carry on to step five.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, in Findon Valley?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start your engine. The fuel pump runs on plenty of diesels the moment your ignition goes on — so keep it off. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where the fuel is sucked from — so do not top up with diesel to dilute it.
If you are on a forecourt, whether it is the BP or the JET, ask the attendants to help roll your car away from the pump. On your own drive in Findon Valley? So the car remains put.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if your engine has already run. The next exit means where to leave when you're on the M23, under 25 miles from Findon Valley. Distance counts — a short hop across Findon Valley is a smaller job than heading under 15 miles towards Brighton and Hove — so tell us roughly how far it went.
Findon Valley: what takes place when we get there
The van comes to your car anywhere it has come to rest — your own drive, near Findon Valley Library, or by Vale School, Worthing. The replies settle the work and the quote, so we ask what got in, roughly how much, and if it has run. The price is given on the call, before any van leaves.
Draining your tank comes next, followed by a full flush of the system. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and eats at some fuel-system metals, and neither clears away by itself. Hence it matters more. After the filter is flushed — or replaced, if needed — fresh diesel is added, and then your car gets tested. After that our engineers start the engine and make sure it runs smoothly before we go.
With pumps fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs where your motor has not run need about half an hour once our technicians arrive. Payment is on the day, not upfront, and you receive the documents an insurer wants: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. It is worth checking your policy while we travel to you: misfuelling cover is included with plenty of policies.
About Findon Valley and where it is
Findon Valley is a suburban area in West Sussex, situated near the South Coast of England, with Findon Valley being close to the cities of Brighton and Hove. Findon Valley has a relatively low elevation of 29 metres above sea level and is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock. Findon Valley is located near several other residential areas, including High Salvington, Salvington, and Cote.
AdBlue drains round Findon Valley, and West Sussex beyond
Throughout BN postcodes, the teams covering Findon Valley — a residential suburb — work the nearby places too, Cote and Salvington included. Quote a postcode beginning BN14 0, and the van arrives fastest.
There's no need to move the vehicle. Wherever it stands — near All Saints, in a lay-by en route to Worthing Golf Club, on a drive — that's where it is emptied. Ring and ask rather than assuming if you're near a border, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of St Michael's.
In short, for Findon Valley motorists
Pour no AdBlue until you've read the cap. AdBlue in the diesel tank regardless? Keep the car switched off and phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, throughout West Sussex.