Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Hampton in Arden: Why It Occurs
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your motor and the ignition off then call 0333 366 0103. In Hampton in Arden, finding it before the engine turns usually leaves draining and a thorough flush on the spot. The remainder of this page covers why it takes place and how to ensure it doesn't — useful if you are reading before it has happened.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle: two tanks, two fillers
Diesel goes to your motor — yet many newer diesels driven around Hampton in Arden and Bradnocks Marsh hold a second liquid as well. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into the exhaust gas to clean it.
Each tank comes with a filler of its own. Under one flap, next to each other: that is the arrangement on a lot of cars. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler sits under the bonnet or in your boot instead. Diesel goes in on every filling station visit, week in, week out. The AdBlue side is fuelled far less commonly, normally from a bottle, and usually by somebody who has to stop and think where it goes. The mistake lives in that gap.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank takes place in Hampton in Arden
It's rarely carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
On a driveway off High Street before work, or in the car park at The White Lion on the way home: that's where the rushed top-up happens. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and once it's empty, limp mode kicks in.
Then, your hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old vehicle — since a hire car, a new car or a company car places the fillers somewhere your last one did not.
A spouted bottle finds no resistance at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. And so the pour, after begun, keeps on. Walsal End or the middle of Hampton in Arden: it is the same few seconds in both.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Be it a Hampton in Arden forecourt or a drive over in Catherine-de-Barnes, take a few seconds over these before anything is poured in.
- Read the cap rather than going by position: AdBlue caps are often blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones normally are not.
- The size. On plenty of vehicles the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Many cars say there which fuel goes where.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that is where your filler is if it's not by the diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- Picking up a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park at Hampton-In-Arden? Ask the person who drove the vehicle last before leaving, not once the light goes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
For the day the warning appears — wherever it is around West Midlands — a simple routine to follow.
- Stop somewhere level, engine off, with time in hand — never rushing on the side of Fentham 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.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave the car on.
- Finish once your tank fills or the bottle is empty; before that, pour gently through the built-in spout.
- Shut the cap, and check once more — confirm the diesel cap remained shut the whole time. Only then, start the vehicle.
Spot at step two or three that it has already gone into your diesel side? Then stop just there. Never go on to step five.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Hampton in Arden already?
Do not start the engine: that is where the short order of things starts. On plenty of diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so don't switch the car on. Diluting it with more diesel won't work, because AdBlue settles to the bottom rather than blending — and that is where the fuel is drawn from.
On a forecourt — Esso, EG On the Move or any other — the staff will normally help push the car clear, when you ask. On your own drive around Hampton in Arden? So your car remains put.
If the engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. On the M42, under a mile from Hampton in Arden, that means the next exit. Distance matters — a quick hop across Hampton in Arden is a smaller job than heading under 10 miles towards Coventry — so tell us roughly how far it went.
Hampton in Arden: what happens when we get there
Wherever the vehicle came to rest, be it outside George Fentham Endowed School, near Coptic Orthodox Church of St Mary and St Antony or at home, the van comes to it. Which liquid got in, the quantity, and if it ran: our engineers ask because the answers decide the work and price. No one heads out before you have had our price by phone.
Emptying that tank comes next, followed by a full flush of the system. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and attacks some fuel-system metals, and neither clears out by itself. Hence it counts more. A test comes at the end: before that, clean diesel is added, and the fuel filter is flushed or replaced as needed. Then we fire it up and check it runs smoothly before we go.
Unstarted vehicles mostly mean a half-hour job from the moment we arrive. The equipment is safe on a busy filling station, and quiet enough for a driveway after dark. Your insurer usually wants an engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and both are yours at the end. Payment is on the day, with no deposit. It is worth checking your insurance while we travel to you: misfuelling cover is included with many policies.
About Hampton in Arden, briefly
Hampton in Arden is a village situated on the River Blythe in the West Midlands, with a mix of rural and suburban characteristics. Hampton in Arden has a relatively low elevation of 119 metres and is located near several other small settlements, including Walsal End and Eastcote. Hampton in Arden remains a small and predominantly residential community, with a high proportion of detached housing. Hampton in Arden is also within commuting distance of major cities, including Coventry and London.
Hampton in Arden and West Midlands: AdBlue drains across the area
Throughout B postcodes, our teams covering Hampton in Arden — a village — work the surrounding locations too, Bickenhill and Eastcote among them. Give a postcode beginning B92 0, and our van arrives fastest.
The vehicle doesn't need to shift. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street near Fentham Library, a lay-by on the way to Soho Tavern Beer Garden, a drive. Guessing doesn't help at the back of Parish Church of St Mary & St. Bartholomew, close to a border, or somewhere hard to describe; phone and check.
In short, for Hampton in Arden people
Pour nothing till you've read the cap. AdBlue in the diesel tank after all? Keep the car switched off and call 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, throughout West Midlands.