Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Great Barton: Why It Occurs
Leave the motor and ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103 first — reading can wait when AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. In Great Barton, catching it before your motor turns normally means draining and a thorough flush where it stands. Nothing happened yet? Further down, the rest of the page covers the reasons it occurs and the ways to prevent it altogether.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel motor
Many modern diesels in East Barton, like those in Great Barton, carry on two liquids; the engine takes only your diesel. Your exhaust, not the motor, is where AdBlue goes: sprayed into the fumes to clean them, from its own tank.
Each tank has its own filler. Other motors keep the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; a lot more place both side by side behind one flap. Diesel gets filled on each forecourt call-out, week in, week out. Rarely filled, AdBlue normally comes from a bottle, tipped by someone who has to stop and think which cap it needs. The mistake grows in that gap between the two.
AdBlue in the diesel tank around Great Barton: how it takes place
Seldom is it carelessness: normally three things coincide.
On a drive off School Road before work, or in the car park at Bunbury Arms heading home: that is where the rushed top-up happens. Why the rush? As AdBlue runs low the vehicle warns you, and once it's gone, limp mode follows.
The old car's cap is where the hand reaches — but a rental car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers elsewhere. That's a second factor: a new car.
A spouted bottle finds no obstacle at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. And so the tip, after begun, carries on. Whether it takes place in Conyers Green or the middle of Great Barton, it's the same few seconds.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
A couple of seconds is all these take — so run through them before you pour anything, on a drive in Battlies Green or a forecourt in Great Barton.
- Where it sits misleads; the cap does not. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or carry the word "AdBlue" — diesel ones usually do not.
- Look at the size: the smaller neck is, on many vehicles, the AdBlue one.
- Open the filler flap and check for a label — plenty of motors show which goes in each filler just there.
- The handbook says which it lives if your filler is not next to the diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- The person who drove the car last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park at Thurston, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around Suffolk that is.
- Pull in somewhere level, engine off, with time to spare — never hurried on the side of East Barton Road.
- Silly as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" aloud while you unscrew the cap works — after you have found the filler and read it.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Finish once that tank is topped up or the bottle is empty; before that, pour gently through the built-in spout.
- Before starting the car, close the cap and check a second time that the diesel cap never came off.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Skip step five entirely.
Great Barton: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Do not start the engine: that's how the short order of things begins. On plenty of diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so do not switch it on. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where your fuel is pulled from — so don't top up with diesel to dilute it.
Ask the staff to help push your car clear of the pump if you are at a forecourt — the Esso, the BP or somewhere else. At home around Great Barton? So the vehicle stays where it is.
Already run? Stop when it is safe, then switch off. On the M11, under 50 miles from Great Barton, that means the next junction. A short hop across Great Barton is a smaller job than a run towards Ely, under 25 miles away, so tell us about how far it went.
Our arrival around Great Barton, and what happens next
We come to the car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside Great Barton Church of England Primary Academy, near Great Barton Village Sign or on your own drive. Our technicians ask what went in, about how much, and if it's run, because the answers settle this work and our quote. Nobody heads out before you have had our quote over the phone.
Then your tank is drained and the fuel system rinsed thoroughly. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not wash out on its own — which is why that counts more with AdBlue than with petrol. Once the filter is cleaned — or replaced, where required — fresh diesel is added, and finally the vehicle gets tested. The motor is fired up next and tested to confirm it runs correctly, all before our engineers go.
Using pumps fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs in which the engine has not run need about half an hour after our technicians arrive. Your insurer will ask for the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and you get both once the job is done. Payment comes on the day, with no deposit. It is worth looking at your insurance while we travel to you: misfuelling cover comes with plenty of policies.
About Great Barton and where it is
Great Barton is a small village in Suffolk, situated inland at an elevation of around 62 metres, with a mix of detached housing and rural landscapes. Great Barton lies near the villages of Conyers Green, Cattishall, and Colton, and is approximately 23 miles from the city of Ely. Great Barton has a population of around 661 residents, and is about 65 miles from London. Great Barton remains a quiet, rural community with a strong sense of local identity.
AdBlue drains across Suffolk, Great Barton included
Throughout IP postcodes, our teams covering Great Barton — a rural village — work the surrounding places too, Colton and Cattishall included. Quote a postcode beginning IP31 2, and our van arrives fastest.
The car stays where it is. Draining happens on the spot, be it a driveway, a road near Great Barton Village Hall, or a lay-by on the way to Icepits. If you're close to a border, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of The Church of the Holy Innocents, ring and ask instead of guessing.
Great Barton drivers: the short version
First, the cap; then, the tip. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank all the same, leave the car off then phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it sits, anywhere across Suffolk.