Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Fivemiletown: Why It Occurs
Stop here for a moment if your diesel tank already holds AdBlue in it: ignition off, motor off, then ring 0333 366 0103. Normally, when your engine has not turned, it's drained and thoroughly rinsed where the vehicle sits in Fivemiletown. Here in advance? Then what follows explains why it comes about and what to stop it happening at all.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle, and its separate tank
Many modern diesels in Tempo, as well as Fivemiletown, carry on two fluids; your motor gets only your diesel. AdBlue goes to the exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Separate tanks, separate fillers. Other motors keep the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; a lot more have the two side by side under one flap. The diesel side is fuelled at the petrol pump all the time. The AdBlue side is filled far less often, normally from a bottle, and usually by somebody who has to stop and think where it goes. That gap is where the mistake lives.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank take place in Fivemiletown?
Seldom is it carelessness: normally three things coincide.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and if it runs out completely, the vehicle goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a drive off Wallace Cottages before work, or in the car park outside the pub in the village on the way home.
Then the vehicle is new. A hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and your hand hits for the cap it would have used on the old one.
Third, the spout fits: diesel filler or AdBlue one, it goes in just as readily, and after the tip starts, nothing stops it. Clabby or the heart of Fivemiletown: it is the same few seconds either way.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
A couple of seconds is all these take — so check them before you pour anything, on a drive in Augher or a forecourt in Fivemiletown.
- Where it sits misleads; the cap doesn't. AdBlue caps are often blue or bear the word "AdBlue" — diesel caps normally do not.
- On many cars, the size tells: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- A label inside the fuel flap frequently shows which fuel goes where, on many cars. Check for it.
- The handbook shows which it is when your filler isn't next to the diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- Collecting a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park outside the nearest station? Check with whoever drove it last before you set off, rather than when the light comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever across County Tyrone that is.
- Not in a rush on the side of Dunaverty Court, not on a slope, not with the motor running: park then switch off first.
- 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 two behind one flap? Then make sure the lid on your diesel side stays shut before lifting the bottle.
- Gently is best, through the bottle's own spout, till it is full or the bottle runs out.
- Close the cap and check a second time. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Never carry on to step five.
Fivemiletown: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Brief list, then. Top of it: your motor remains unstarted. On plenty of diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so do not switch the car on. Do not top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where the fuel is sucked from.
The staff at the nearest petrol station, another forecourt nearby or any forecourt will normally help to push the vehicle clear if asked. Leave it where it is if you're on your own driveway around Fivemiletown.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if the engine has already run. Leave the M77 — over 50 miles out of Fivemiletown — at the first exit. A short hop across Fivemiletown is a smaller job than a run towards Armagh, under 50 miles away, and so tell us about how far it went.
What occurs when our technicians arrive in Fivemiletown
Our technicians come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside the local primary school, close to the centre or on your own drive. Our engineers ask what got in, roughly how much, and if it's run, because the replies decide the work and our price. Nobody heads out before you have heard our quote by phone.
Then the tank is drained and your system purged thoroughly. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't wash out on its own — which is why the flush counts more with AdBlue than with petrol. The filter cleaned or, if needed, replaced; clean diesel in; and then a test of your vehicle. Before we go, our engineers fire it up and check that it's running properly.
If your motor hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Before we get there, have a look at your insurance documents; many carry cover for misfuelling.
About Fivemiletown itself
Fivemiletown is a small locality in County Tyrone, situated inland at an elevation of 109 metres, approximately 26 miles from Armagh. Fivemiletown is characterized by its semi-detached housing and is located near other settlements such as Clabby, Clogher, and Brookeborough. Fivemiletown has a population of around 941 people and is a considerable distance from London, at 358.7 miles away.
AdBlue drains round Fivemiletown, and County Tyrone beyond
Over BT postcodes, the vans that cover Fivemiletown — a small village — work the surrounding spots too, Brookeborough and Clogher among them. The van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting BT75 0.
No need to shift the car. The drain happens on the spot, whether a drive, a street by a street just off the centre, or a lay-by towards the green space at the edge of the village. If you're close to a border, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of the far end of the built-up part, ring and ask rather than assuming.
For Fivemiletown people, the short version
Before you tip, read the cap. AdBlue in your diesel tank regardless? Leave the vehicle off and phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, throughout County Tyrone.