How It Occurs and How to Prevent It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Great Boleness Field
Leave your engine and ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103 first — reading can wait when AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. A drain and a full flush, done just where the vehicle stands around Great Boleness Field, is usually what it needs when found before your motor runs. Here in advance? Then the rest covers how it comes about and what to prevent it happening at all.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
Many current diesels on the roads around Great Boleness Field and Elm carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the engine. The exhaust, not your motor, is where AdBlue ends up: dosed into the gas to clean it, from its own tank.
Every tank has a filler of its own. Under one flap, next to each other: that's the layout on a lot of vehicles. On others, AdBlue's filler sits under the bonnet or in your boot instead. At the petrol pump, the diesel side gets filled all the time. Much less frequently, the AdBlue side gets filled — mostly from a bottle, by a person working out where it goes. The slip lives in that gap.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs in Great Boleness Field
Seldom is it carelessness: normally three things line up.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a warning from your car, and letting it run out means limp mode — so a hurried top-up, perhaps before work off Enterprise Way, perhaps at Rose Tavern on the way home that evening.
The old car's cap is where your hand reaches — yet a hire car, a new car or a company car keeps the fillers somewhere else. That's a second thing: an unfamiliar motor.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, so nothing stops the tip after it has started. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Great Boleness Field or out in South Bridge Field.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Before you tip anything, whether on a driveway in Paradise or a forecourt around Great Boleness Field, check these. They take a few seconds.
- Colour and lettering: an AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally doesn't. Go by the cap, not where it sits.
- The size. On plenty of vehicles the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Plenty of cars say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook says where it lives when your filler isn't next to the diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- The person who drove it last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park outside March, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around Cambridgeshire that is.
- Not in a rush on the side of Cromwell Road, not on a slope, not with your engine running: park and switch off properly.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after you find the AdBlue filler and read it. Daft, yes, but it does the trick.
- The diesel cap stays on. Where both sit under a flap, confirm it's closed before the bottle comes up.
- Finish once your tank is topped up or the bottle runs dry; before that, pour slowly using the built-in spout.
- Before you start the car, shut the cap and look a second time that your diesel cap was never opened off.
Find during the second or third step that AdBlue went in the wrong filler? That's where you stop. Never go on to stage five.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Great Boleness Field already?
Don't start your motor: that's where the short order of things begins. The fuel pump starts on many diesels the moment your ignition is switched on — and so leave it off. Diluting it with extra diesel fails, since AdBlue settles to the bottom instead of blending — and that is where your fuel is sucked from.
If you are on a forecourt, whether it is the Tesco or the Michael Wicks Garage, ask the attendants to help push the car clear of the petrol pump. Your own drive around Great Boleness Field is where it should stay.
Already run? Pull over when it is sensible, then turn off. Great Boleness Field sits under 25 miles from the A1(M); on it, use the first exit. Mileage matters — a short hop across Great Boleness Field is a smaller job than driving under 25 miles to Peterborough — so say about how far it went.
What occurs when we turn up in Great Boleness Field
Wherever the vehicle came to rest, whether by Elm Road Primary School, beside Light Cinema or on your own drive, the van comes to it. Those replies decide the work and our quote, so our engineers ask what went in, about how much, and if it has run. During the call itself, you are told the quote — ahead of dispatch.
Then that tank is drained and the system flushed thoroughly. Much more than with petrol, it counts with AdBlue: the crystals form, some metals are attacked, and nothing clears out unaided, however long it is left. The fuel filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the car is tested. Next our technicians fire it up and check it runs smoothly before we go.
With pumps fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs where your motor has not run take roughly half an hour once our technicians are there. Payment is on the day, not upfront, and you receive the paperwork an insurer asks for: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. It is worth checking your insurance as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover comes with many policies.
About Great Boleness Field, briefly
Great Boleness Field is a small suburban area located on the riverside in Cambridgeshire, with an elevation of approximately 1 metre above sea level. Great Boleness Field sits near the city of Peterborough, about 17 miles away, and is close to other nearby places such as South Bridge Field and Wisbech. Great Boleness Field is characterised by its predominantly detached housing stock, reflecting its relatively low-density residential nature. Great Boleness Field has a population of around 800 people, making it a small but distinct community within the wider region.
Great Boleness Field and Cambridgeshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Wisbech and Begdale are among the towns near Great Boleness Field, a residential suburb, that the same teams cover, over PE postcodes. A postcode starting PE14 0 gets the van to you fastest.
Moving the vehicle isn't needed. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Barton Road Recreation Ground, a side street near Elgood's Brewery Visitor Centre and Gardens: our engineers drain it where it is. Awkward to pin down, like the back of Our Lady and St Charles Borromeo? By a border? Asking is better than guessing, and so ring.
For Great Boleness Field drivers, the short version
Tip no AdBlue till you have read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank all the same, leave the vehicle off then ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it sits, anywhere in Cambridgeshire.