AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Forest Town: How It Happens and How to Stop It
Stop here for a moment when the diesel tank already holds AdBlue in it: ignition off, motor off, and phone 0333 366 0103. Normally, if the engine has not turned, it is emptied and thoroughly flushed where your car is in Forest Town. Here in advance? Then what follows explains why it happens and how to prevent it ever happening.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel car need its own filler?
Not one fluid but two: that's how plenty of modern diesels near Forest Town and Clipstone run, with diesel for the motor. Its own tank holds it, and from there it goes to the exhaust, where spraying cleans the fumes.
Each tank comes with one filler of its own. Plenty of motors have a single flap for both, whereas others put the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. Diesel goes in at each filling station visit, week in, week out. The AdBlue side is filled far less regularly, usually from a bottle, and usually by someone who has to stop and think where it goes. The mistake lives in that gap.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank happen in Forest Town?
Carelessness seldom causes it. What does is three things coming up together.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and if it runs out altogether, your vehicle goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Kingsway before work, or in the car park at Prince Charles on the way home.
Then, your hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old motor — because a rental car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not.
Lastly, the spout goes in: a diesel filler or AdBlue one, it goes in as readily, and once the pour begins, nothing halts it. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Forest Town or out in Ravensdale.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Before you tip anything, whether on a driveway in Mansfield Woodhouse or a forecourt in Forest Town, check these. They take a few seconds.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap normally is not. Read it rather than going by position.
- Many motors give AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- A label inside the fuel flap often shows which fuel goes where, on many cars. Check for it.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that is where the filler sits if it is not by the diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- The previous driver will know. Ask when you pick up a rental or company car — at Mansfield's car park, say — not once the light comes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
On the day the warning comes on — wherever you are in Nottinghamshire — a routine to follow.
- Not in a rush on the side of Holly Drive, not on a slope, not with the engine running: park and switch off first.
- Silly as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew the cap works — after you have located the filler and read it.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Stop when the tank fills or the bottle runs dry; until then, tip gently using the own spout.
- Only after that, start the car: close the cap, check again, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
Spot at step two or three that it's already gone into your diesel side? Then stop just there. Stage five is out.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Forest Town already?
Short order, then. Top of that: your motor stays off. On many diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so do not switch the vehicle on. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is pulled from — so do not top up with diesel to dilute it.
If you're at a forecourt, whether it is the BP or the Asda, ask the staff to help push your car clear of the petrol pump. Leave it where it is if you are on your own driveway in Forest Town.
When your engine has run already, stop somewhere safe then switch the vehicle off. On the M1, under 10 miles from Forest Town, that means the next exit. About how far did it go? Hopping across Forest Town is less work than a trip of under 15 miles towards Nottingham, and so tell us.
Forest Town: what happens when we turn up
Anywhere the car has stopped, be it outside Holly Primary School, beside Trinity Methodist Church or at home, the van comes to it. The answers determine the work and the quote, and so we ask what was put in, roughly how much, and if it has run. That quote is given over the phone, ahead of any van leaving.
Next: draining, then a full flush of the entire system. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not wash out on its own — which is why the flush counts more with AdBlue than with petrol. Your filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the car is tested. We don't leave until it has been started and is running correctly.
Using pumps fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs where the motor has not run take roughly half an hour after our engineers are there. Paying happens on the day, not upfront, and you are given the documents an insurer asks for: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it is worth checking yours whilst we're on the way.
About Forest Town and where it is
Forest Town is a locality in Nottinghamshire, situated inland at an elevation of 123 metres, approximately 13.7 miles north of Nottingham. Forest Town is characterised by its predominantly detached housing stock, reflecting its development as a residential area. Forest Town is close to nearby places such as Ravensdale, Newlands, and The Park, and is about 121.8 miles from London. Forest Town has a population of around 3919 residents.
Forest Town and Nottinghamshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Over NG postcodes, the teams covering Forest Town — a small village — work the surrounding spots too, The Park and Newlands among them. The van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting NG19 0.
Your car does not need to move. The drain takes place on the spot, be it a driveway, a street near Parish Church of St Alban the Martyr, or a layby on the way to Queensway Park. Ring and ask rather than guessing if you are close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain, like the back of Forest Town Library.
In short, for Forest Town drivers
Before you pour, read the cap. AdBlue in your diesel tank after all? Keep the vehicle switched off then ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, across Nottinghamshire.