AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Frith Hill: How It Occurs and How to Stop It
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? In that case set this page aside for now, leave your ignition and engine off, then ring 0333 366 0103. Caught before the motor runs, it is usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is in Frith Hill. If you're reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it takes place and how to make sure it doesn't.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle: two tanks, two fillers
Many newer diesels on the roads about Frith Hill and Binscombe carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your engine. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into the exhaust gas and cleans it.
Each tank has a filler of its own. Many of cars share a single flap for both, whereas some put the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. Topping up the diesel side at the petrol pump goes on all the time. Seldom topped up, AdBlue normally goes in out of a bottle, tipped by someone who has to stop and think what cap to use. Mistakes happen in the gap between the two.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank takes place around Frith Hill
Carelessness rarely causes it. Instead is three things lining up at once.
On a drive off Summer Hill before work, or in the car park at The Charterhouse Arms on the way home: that's where the hurried top-up happens. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue gets low your car warns you, and if it is gone, limp mode follows.
New-to-you vehicles are second, as well. Hire cars, new cars and company motors put their fillers in new places, and the hand reaches for the cap it used on the old one.
Lastly, the spout fits: diesel filler or AdBlue one, it goes in just as easily, and after the tip starts, nothing halts it. Farncombe or the heart of Frith Hill: it takes the same few seconds in both.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Before you tip anything, whether on a driveway in Catteshall or a forecourt in Frith Hill, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- Position can mislead; the cap does not. AdBlue caps are often blue or carry the name "AdBlue" — diesel ones normally don't.
- Plenty of cars give AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- Check inside your fuel flap: many vehicles have a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that's where the filler sits if it is not by your diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- The person who drove the car last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park at Farncombe, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever across Surrey that is.
- Turn off once parked — flat ground, engine stopped, and never rushed beside Charterhouse Road on the verge.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after finding the AdBlue filler and reading it. Daft, perhaps, yet it works.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave it on.
- Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty.
- Before starting the vehicle, shut the cap and look a second time that your diesel cap never came off.
Find at the second or third step that AdBlue went in the wrong tank? That is where you stop. Leave out stage five altogether.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Frith Hill already?
The short order of things, beginning with no starting your motor. The fuel pump runs on many diesels the moment your ignition goes on — and so keep it off. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where your fuel is pulled from — so do not top up with diesel to thin it.
The staff at Sainsbury's, JET or another forecourt will usually lend a hand pushing the car clear when asked. If you are on your own driveway around Frith Hill, leave it where it stands.
Where the motor has been run already, stop somewhere safe then turn it off. The next junction is the place to leave when you're on the M3, under 15 miles from Frith Hill. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Chichester, under 50 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Frith Hill.
Our arrival in Frith Hill, and what takes place next
Our van comes to the vehicle anywhere it stopped — your own driveway, near Memorial Chapel, or outside Godalming Junior School. Both the work and the price depend on three answers — which fluid, which amount, and whether it's run — so we ask. On the phone call itself, you are told the price — ahead of dispatch.
Then the tank is emptied and the fuel system flushed thoroughly. Not like petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and eats at some fuel-system metals, and none of that clears out by itself. Hence it counts more. Once the fuel filter is cleaned — or renewed, where required — clean diesel goes in, and then the vehicle gets tested. The engine is fired up next and tested to confirm it runs properly, all before our technicians go.
If your engine has not run, most 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 after dark. Your insurer usually wants an engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and you get both at the end. Payment is on the day, with no money upfront. Misfuelling cover is part of plenty of insurance policies — and so use the wait to look at yours.
About Frith Hill, briefly
Frith Hill is a suburban area in Surrey, situated near the riverside and surrounded by nearby places such as Farncombe, Westbrook, and Godalming. Frith Hill has a population of approximately 2993 residents and is characterised by predominantly detached housing. Frith Hill is located about 30 miles from London and 25 miles from Chichester, making it a commuter-friendly location. Frith Hill sits at an elevation of 58 metres, providing a relatively low-lying landscape.
Frith Hill and Surrey: AdBlue drains across the area
Throughout GU postcodes, our vans that cover Frith Hill — a residential suburb — work the surrounding places too, Godalming and Westbrook included. The van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting GU7 2.
Shifting the vehicle is not needed. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to Phillips Memorial Cloister, a side street near WW2 Fortifications: we drain the car where it stands. If you are near a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Hampton Manor, ring and ask rather than guessing.
Frith Hill drivers: the short version
Before you tip, read the cap. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, anywhere around Surrey, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank anyway — and so leave it off then call 0333 366 0103.