Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Flaggoners Green: Why It Occurs
Leave the engine and ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103 first — the rest can wait if AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. A drain plus a thorough flush, done right where the vehicle stands around Flaggoners Green, is usually all it needs when found before the engine runs. Not happened yet? Further down, the page covers the reasons it occurs and the how to prevent it altogether.
AdBlue in a diesel car, and its separate tank
No single fluid but two: that is what many newer diesels near Flaggoners Green and Bromyard Downs run, with diesel feeding your engine. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
There's a filler for each tank. On a lot of vehicles the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in your boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is fuelled at the pump all the time. The AdBlue side is topped up far less commonly, usually from a bottle, and normally by someone who has to stop and think where it goes. That gap is where the mistake lives.
AdBlue in your diesel tank in Flaggoners Green: how it takes place
It is rarely carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a warning from the vehicle, and running dry means limp mode — so a hurried top-up, maybe before work off Old Road, or at Rose and Lion on the way home that evening.
Then the car is unfamiliar. A hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and the hand gets to for the cap it would have used on the old one.
Nothing halts the pour once it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. It takes seconds, whether in West Hill or right in the centre of Flaggoners Green.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Check these first, on a forecourt in Flaggoners Green or a drive over in Cricks Green. Seconds, that's all.
- Read the cap instead of going by position: AdBlue ones are commonly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps usually aren't.
- Look at the size: the smaller neck is, on plenty of cars, the AdBlue one.
- Open the filler flap and check for a label — plenty of motors show which belongs in each filler right there.
- Cannot find it next to your diesel filler? Then check below the bonnet or inside the boot — the handbook says which.
- Whoever had it before will know. Check when you collect a rental or fleet car — at Leominster's car park, perhaps — not when the warning comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever across Herefordshire that is.
- Pull in somewhere level, motor off, with time in hand — not rushing on the side of Worcester Road.
- Find the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and say the word "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew it. It seems silly. It does the trick.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap, and look again — confirm the diesel cap stayed shut throughout. Only then, start your car.
Stop there if you find, at stage two or three, that you have already poured into the diesel side. Never carry on to stage five.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, in Flaggoners Green?
The short order of things, beginning with not starting the engine. Don't switch your ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where the fuel is drawn from — so don't top up with diesel to thin it.
The attendants at Maple Leaf, Texaco or any forecourt will usually lend a hand to push the car away if you ask. Leave it where it is if you're on your own driveway in Flaggoners Green.
Where the motor has run already, pull over safely and turn the car off. Flaggoners Green lies under 15 miles from the M5; on it, take the first exit. Roughly how far did it go? Hopping across Flaggoners Green is smaller work than a run of under 15 miles to Hereford, and so tell us.
What occurs when we turn up in Flaggoners Green
We come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside St Peter's Primary School, near Bromyard Cricket Club or on your own drive. Both the work and the price rest on three answers — which fluid, which amount, and if it has run — so our technicians ask. You get that quote on the phone, before anyone sets off.
Draining your tank comes next, followed by a thorough flush of the system. 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 that counts more here than with petrol. The filter cleaned or, where it must be, swapped; clean diesel in; and then a test of your car. Next our technicians fire it up and check it runs smoothly before we go.
Most jobs are done in about half an hour after our technicians arrive, provided the engine has not run — and the pumps we use are safe on a busy forecourt yet quiet after dark outside a house. No money in advance; you settle up that day. At the end, a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer go to you for the insurer. Before we get there, take a look at your insurance documents; plenty include cover for misfuelling.
About Flaggoners Green
Flaggoners Green is a suburban area situated on the riverside in Herefordshire, with a mix of semi-detached housing and a population of around 2258 residents. Flaggoners Green sits at an elevation of 172 metres, approximately 12 miles from the city of Hereford and 112 miles west of London. Flaggoners Green is located near other local places such as West Hill, The Knapp, and Bromyard, and is part of the wider West Midlands region. Flaggoners Green has a relatively small and quiet community, typical of many suburban areas in the countryside.
AdBlue drains around Flaggoners Green and across Herefordshire
Throughout HR postcodes, the teams covering Flaggoners Green — a residential suburb — work the nearby places too, Bromyard and The Knapp included. The van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting HR7 4.
There's no need to move the car. We drain it where it is — a side street near Hope Centre, a lay-by on the way to The Knapp, a drive. Awkward to explain, like the back of The Bromyard Centre? Close to a county line? Checking beats assuming, and so phone.
In short, for Flaggoners Green motorists
Before you pour, read the cap. Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, anywhere around Herefordshire, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless — so leave the vehicle off then ring 0333 366 0103.