Forncett End: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the motor and the ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103. In Forncett End, finding it before the motor turns normally leaves draining and a thorough flush on the spot. The rest of this page explains why it happens and how to make sure it does not — useful if you are reading before it has happened.
AdBlue in a diesel car, and its separate tank
Many modern diesels around Little Green, like those in Forncett End, carry on two fluids; your engine takes just the diesel. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into the exhaust gas and cleans it.
Separate tanks, separate fillers. 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. Topping up the diesel side at the pump happens all the time. A driver who has to stop and work out where it goes usually fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less commonly. The mistake grows in that gap between the two.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank take place around Forncett End?
It's rarely carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a warning from your car, and running out means limp mode — so a rushed top-up, maybe before work off Orchard Close, or outside The Jolly Farmers on the way home that evening.
Unfamiliar cars are second, too. Hire cars, new motors and company vehicles place their fillers differently, and habit reaches for the cap used on the old one.
Nothing halts the tip once it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. It takes a few seconds, be it in Tacolneston or right in the centre of Forncett End.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Before you tip anything, whether on a driveway in Low Common or a forecourt around Forncett End, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- Position can mislead; the cap does not. AdBlue caps tend to be blue or carry the word "AdBlue" — diesel ones normally do not.
- On many motors, size tells: AdBlue has the smaller filler neck.
- Lift the flap and look for a label — plenty of cars mark which goes in each inlet right there.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that is where the filler is if it's not by your diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- Picking up a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park at Spooner Row? Check with whoever drove the vehicle last before you set off, not when the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
The day the light goes on, anywhere in Norfolk, use this routine.
- Pull in somewhere level, engine off, with time to spare — never rushing on the side of Bentley Road.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after you find the AdBlue filler and read it. Daft, perhaps, but it works.
- The diesel cap remains on. When the two share a flap, make sure it's shut before the bottle comes up.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap, and look once more — making sure your diesel filler stayed shut the whole time. Only then, start the car.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Never go on to stage five.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Forncett End?
What follows is a short order of things, beginning with no starting your motor. Leave the ignition off as well, since on plenty of diesels it alone starts your fuel pump. AdBlue doesn't 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 dilute it.
The attendants at Anglo, Shell or another forecourt will usually help to push the vehicle clear when you ask. At home in Forncett End? So your car remains where it is.
If the motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. The next exit means where to come off if you are on the M11, under 50 miles from Forncett End. Mileage matters — a quick hop across Forncett End is a smaller job than heading under 15 miles towards Norwich — so tell us roughly how far it went.
Our arrival around Forncett End, and what occurs next
Our van comes to the vehicle wherever it has come to rest — your own drive, near Saint Edmund's Church, or by Tacolneston Church of England Primary Academy. Both the work and the price depend on three answers — which liquid, which quantity, and if it has run — so we ask. On the call itself, you hear our price — ahead of anything else.
Next: draining, then a thorough flush of the entire system. Much more than with petrol, it counts here: crystals build up, some metals are attacked, and none of it clears out unaided, no matter how long it sits. After your filter has been cleaned — or replaced, if required — clean diesel goes in, and finally the car is tested. We do not leave until it has been fired up and is running properly.
Unrun cars mostly need a half-hour job after arrival. The kit is safe on a busy filling station, and hushed enough for a residential street late at night. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. While we travel, have a look at your insurance documents; many include cover for misfuelling.
About Forncett End
Forncett End is a small village in south Norfolk, situated approximately 10 miles south of Norwich. Forncett End sits in a rural landscape at an elevation of around 59 metres, with nearby villages including Tacolneston and Brocks Watering. Forncett End has a population of around 598 people, predominantly living in detached houses.
AdBlue drains about Forncett End, and Norfolk beyond
Throughout NR postcodes, the vans that cover Forncett End — a rural village — work the surrounding locations too, Cordwell and Brocks Watering among them. Our van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting NR16 1.
There's no need to move the vehicle. We drain it where it is — a side street near Tacolneston Village Hall, a lay-by on the way to Bunwell Wood, a drive. Ring and ask instead of assuming if you're near a border, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of Tacolneston Guidepost and Village Sign.
The short version for Forncett End drivers
Tip no AdBlue until you have read the cap. Even so AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will empty it wherever it is, anywhere in Norfolk: keep the car off and call 0333 366 0103.