AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Frampton on Severn: How It Occurs and How to Prevent It
Pause here a minute when your diesel tank already holds AdBlue in it: ignition off, motor off, and call 0333 366 0103. Caught before the motor runs, it is normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is in Frampton on Severn. Here before the event? In that case what follows explains why it comes about and what to stop it happening at all.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle, and its separate tank
Plenty of current diesels on the roads round Frampton on Severn and Fretherne carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the motor. AdBlue goes to the exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Each tank has its own filler. Some cars keep the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; plenty more have both side by side behind one flap. At the pump, the diesel side is topped up all the time. The AdBlue side is filled far less regularly, normally from a bottle, and normally by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. The slip lives in that gap.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank happens in Frampton on Severn
It's rarely carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a warning from your car, and letting it run dry means limp mode — so a rushed top-up, maybe before work off The Green, perhaps outside Bell Inn on the way home that evening.
Then the car is new. A hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and the hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old one.
Third, the spout goes in: diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it slides in as easily, and once the pour begins, no part stops it. Whether it takes place in Saul or the middle of Frampton on Severn, it's the same few seconds.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Look at these first, at a forecourt in Frampton on Severn or a driveway over in Upper Framilode. A few seconds, no more.
- Position can mislead; the cap does not. AdBlue ones are often blue or bear the word "AdBlue" — diesel ones usually do not.
- Check the size: the smaller filler neck is, on many cars, the AdBlue one.
- Open the filler flap and check for a label — many cars mark what goes in which filler right there.
- Can't find it beside the diesel inlet? Then look below the bonnet or in your boot — the owner's manual will say which.
- Ask the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — if you collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park at Cam & Dursley.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
The day the light comes on, anywhere across Gloucestershire, follow this routine.
- Not in a rush on the side of Perry Way, not on a slope, not with your engine running: park and switch off first.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once you find the AdBlue filler and reading it. Silly, perhaps, but it does the trick.
- Both under a single flap? Then make sure the lid on your diesel filler stays shut before raising the bottle.
- Slowly does it, through the bottle's own spout, till it's full or the bottle runs out.
- Before you start the vehicle, shut the cap and check a second time that the diesel cap was never came off.
Find at stage two or three that it has already gone into the diesel side? Then stop just there. Never go on to step five.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, around Frampton on Severn?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start your motor. Leave the ignition off as well, because on plenty of diesels switching it on alone starts your pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where the fuel is sucked from — so do not top up with diesel to thin it.
On a forecourt — Texaco, Shell or another — the attendants will normally help push your car away, when you ask. Leave it where it is if you are on your own drive in Frampton on Severn.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if the motor has already run. On the M5, under 3 miles from Frampton on Severn, that means the next exit. About how far did it go? Hopping across Frampton on Severn is less work than a run of under 10 miles towards Gloucester, so say.
Our arrival around Frampton on Severn, and what takes place next
The van reaches the vehicle anywhere it stopped — your own drive, beside Frampton Congregational Church, or outside Lakefield CofE Primary School. Which liquid got in, the amount, and if it ran: our engineers ask because the answers decide the work and price. The quote is given on the call, ahead of any van leaving.
The fuel system is then rinsed thoroughly, after that tank is emptied. Much more than with petrol, it matters here: crystals form, some metals corrode, and nothing clears away on its own, however long it is left. The filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the vehicle is tested. We do not go until it has been started and is running properly.
Most jobs are done in roughly half an hour once we arrive, as long as the motor has not run — and the pumps our engineers use are safe on a live forecourt yet quiet at night beside a house. 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; plenty include cover for misfuelling.
About Frampton on Severn
Frampton on Severn is a village in Gloucestershire, situated near the banks of the River Severn, with Saul and Wheatenhurst nearby. Frampton on Severn has a low elevation of around 11 metres, reflecting its coastal setting in the South West of England. Frampton on Severn remains a small, predominantly residential community with a mix of housing types, including semi-detached homes.
AdBlue drains round Frampton on Severn, and Gloucestershire beyond
Over GL postcodes, our teams covering Frampton on Severn — a coastal village — work the surrounding spots too, Fromebridge and Wheatenhurst among them. Give a postcode that starts GL2 7, and the van arrives quickest.
The car doesn't need to shift. We drain it where it is — a side street close to Village Hall, a lay-by on the way to Frampton-on-Severn Tennis Club, a drive. Guessing doesn't help at the back of Saint James the Great, on a boundary, or anywhere hard to pin down; phone and check.
Frampton on Severn people: the short version
Before you tip, read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless, leave it off then call 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it waits, anywhere across Gloucestershire.