Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Hartshill Green: Why It Happens
Stop here a minute if the diesel tank already holds AdBlue in it: ignition off, motor off, and call 0333 366 0103. Usually, when your engine hasn't turned, it's emptied and fully cleaned where the car sits in Hartshill Green. Not happened yet? Below, the page covers the reasons it occurs and the how to avoid it altogether.
AdBlue in a diesel motor: two tanks, two fillers
Many modern diesels around Plough Hill, as well as Hartshill Green, carry on two liquids; your motor gets only your diesel. Your exhaust, not the engine, is where AdBlue ends up: sprayed into the gas to clean them, from a separate tank.
Every tank has one filler of its own. Many of cars have a single flap for the two, while some put the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. Filling your diesel side at the pump goes on constantly. Someone who has to stop and work out where it goes usually fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less often. It's in that gap that the mistake lives.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank happens around Hartshill Green
It is seldom carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
Haste follows from the warning. The vehicle tells you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank puts the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up gets done in a rush, before work on a drive off The Green, or on the way home in the car park at Stag and Pheasant.
The old car's filler is where your hand reaches — yet a rental car, a new motor or a company car keeps the fillers elsewhere. That's a second thing: a new vehicle.
A spouted bottle finds no resistance at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. And so the pour, once begun, keeps on. Whether it occurs in Hartshill or the middle of Hartshill Green, it's the same few seconds.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
A few seconds is all the checks take — so check them before you pour anything, on a driveway in Ansley Common or a forecourt in Hartshill Green.
- Check the cap rather than going by position: AdBlue caps are commonly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps usually are not.
- On many motors, size tells: AdBlue has the smaller filler neck.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Plenty of motors say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If the filler isn't by your diesel cap, it's in your boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Check with the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — if you pick up a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside Atherstone.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
Wherever across Warwickshire the light comes on, here is a routine for the day.
- Pull in somewhere level, engine off, with time to spare — not rushing on the side of Atherstone Road.
- Silly as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" aloud while you unscrew the cap works — once you've located your filler and read the cap.
- Both behind one flap? So confirm the lid on your diesel side stays shut before lifting the bottle.
- Finish once your tank fills or the bottle runs dry; until then, pour slowly using its built-in spout.
- Shut the cap, and look again — confirm your diesel filler remained shut throughout. After that, start the vehicle.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Do not go on to step five.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, in Hartshill Green?
Do not start your motor: that is how the short order of things begins. On plenty of diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so don't switch the vehicle on. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where the fuel is pulled from — so don't top up with diesel to dilute it.
Ask the attendants to help roll the car away from the pump if you're on a forecourt — the Texcao, the Springwood Haven Marina Diesel Pump or somewhere else. If you are on your own drive in Hartshill Green, leave it where it stands.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if the engine has already run. On the M6, under 10 miles from Hartshill Green, that means the next exit. Mileage matters — a quick hop across Hartshill Green makes a smaller job than driving under 10 miles towards Coventry — so tell us about how far it went.
What occurs when we arrive in Hartshill Green
The van reaches the car wherever it has come to rest — your own driveway, beside Drayton Courth Community Room, or outside Michael Drayton Junior School. Both the work and the price depend on three answers — which liquid, what amount, and whether it's run — so we ask. Nobody sets off until you've had the price by phone.
Next: a drain, then a thorough flush of the entire system. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't wash out on its own — which is why the flush matters more here than with petrol. Filter flushed or, where needed, replaced; fresh diesel in; and then a test of the car. We do not leave until it has been started and is running smoothly.
If the motor hasn't 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 at night. Nothing upfront; you settle up on the day. Afterwards, the VAT invoice and the report from the engineer go to you for your insurer. Wrong-fuel cover is included in many insurance policies — and so make use of the wait to check yours.
About Hartshill Green itself
Hartshill Green is a locality situated on the riverside in Warwickshire, with a mix of terraced housing and a population of around 658 residents. Hartshill Green lies near the city of Coventry, approximately 9.7 miles away, and is close to other nearby places such as Hartshill and Chapel End. Hartshill Green is located at an elevation of 129 metres, within the West Midlands region, and is about 93.1 miles from London. Hartshill Green forms part of a larger residential area with Oldbury and other surrounding neighbourhoods.
AdBlue drains about Hartshill Green, and Warwickshire beyond
Throughout CV postcodes, our vans covering Hartshill Green — a small village — work the nearby places too, Oldbury and Chapel End among them. Quote a postcode beginning CV10 0, and the van gets there quickest.
There's no need to shift the vehicle. Anywhere it sits — beside Hartshill Quaker Meeting House, in a lay-by en route to George Fox Heritage Garden, on a drive — that is where it is cleared. Awkward to explain, like the back of Jay 'Johnjo' Harris? By a county line? Asking beats assuming, so phone.
For Hartshill Green people, the short version
First, the cap; after that, the tip. AdBlue in your diesel tank regardless? Keep it off then call 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, across Warwickshire.