Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Grimston: Why It Occurs
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? Then set this page down a moment, leave the ignition and motor off, and call 0333 366 0103. Around Grimston, catching it before your motor turns usually leaves a drain and a thorough flush where it stands. Here before the event? Then the rest covers how it comes about and what to prevent it ever happening.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel car
Diesel feeds your motor — but plenty of newer diesels seen about Grimston and Hillington carry a second fluid too. AdBlue's own tank holds it, and from there it goes to your exhaust, and there spraying cleans the gas.
Different tanks, different fillers. Under one flap, side by side: that is the arrangement on many motors. On others, AdBlue's filler is beneath the bonnet or in the boot instead. The diesel side is fuelled at the pump all the time. Far less commonly, the AdBlue side gets filled — mostly from a bottle, by a person working out where it goes. The slip lives in that gap.
AdBlue in the diesel tank around Grimston: how it happens
It is rarely carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
On a drive off Lynn Road before work, or in the car park outside Three Horseshoes heading home: that is where the hurried top-up takes place. Why the rush? As AdBlue runs low your car warns you, and if it is empty, limp mode kicks in.
Then, the hand reaches for the cap it knew on the old vehicle — because a hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers somewhere your last one didn't.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, and so nothing stops the tip once it has started. Whether it takes place in Congham or the middle of Grimston, it's the same few seconds.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
A couple of seconds is all the checks take — so run through them before you tip anything, on a drive in Gayton or a forecourt around Grimston.
- Read the cap instead of going by where it sits: AdBlue caps are commonly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones normally aren't.
- Look at the size: the smaller filler neck is, on plenty of motors, the AdBlue one.
- Check inside the fuel flap: many motors carry a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that is where the filler is if it's not by the diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- Whoever had it before knows. Check when you pick up a hire car or fleet car — at Kings Lynn's car park, say — not once the warning comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
For the day the light comes on — anywhere you are across Norfolk — a simple routine to use.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with your motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Gayton Road.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it does the trick.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Shut the cap, and look once more — making sure the diesel cap stayed shut the whole time. Only then, start your car.
Discover at the second or third step that the bottle went into the diesel tank? That is where you stop. Don't carry on to step five.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Grimston already?
Short order, then. First: your engine remains unstarted. Don't switch the ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. 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 away from the petrol pump if you are on a forecourt — the the nearest petrol station, the Esso or somewhere else. If you're on your own drive in Grimston, leave it where it sits.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if your engine has already run. The next junction means the place to leave if you are on the A1(M), under 50 miles from Grimston. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Ely, under 50 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Grimston.
When we turn up around Grimston, what takes place?
Outside Holly Meadows School, near Saint Botolph's Church or on your own drive: wherever your car has stopped, our engineers come to it. What fluid was put in, the amount, and whether it ran: our technicians ask because those answers decide the work and price. You hear that price on the phone, before anybody sets off.
Next: draining, then a thorough flush of the entire system. Not like petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and attacks some fuel-system metals, and none of that washes away by itself. Hence it matters more. Filter flushed or, where needed, replaced; fresh diesel in; then a test of the car. Your engine is started next and checked to be sure it runs smoothly, all before our technicians head off.
Unstarted vehicles mostly mean a half-hour visit from the moment we arrive. The kit is safe on a live forecourt, and quiet enough for a residential street after dark. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. It is worth looking at your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with many policies.
About Grimston and where it is
Grimston is a small village in Norfolk, situated inland at an elevation of 21 metres, and is located near the villages of Congham, Pott Row, and Roydon. Grimston has a population of approximately 642 residents, who mostly live in detached houses. Grimston is about 28 miles from the city of Ely and around 92 miles from London, making it a rural community with some distance from major urban centres.
AdBlue drains about Grimston, and Norfolk beyond
Grimston is a rural village, and the teams that cover it also work the places near it, Pott Row and Roydon among them, across the PE postcode area. Fastest of all: give a PE32 1 postcode to the van.
Moving your car is not necessary. Draining takes place right there, be it a driveway, a street by Grimston Village Sign, or a lay-by towards Grimston Carr. If you're near a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Saint Andrew, ring and ask rather than guessing.
In short, for Grimston people
Always, the cap; then, the pour. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, anywhere across Norfolk, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank all the same — and so leave the car off then ring 0333 366 0103.