AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Haybridge: How It Occurs and How to Avoid It
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case put this page down a moment, keep the ignition and engine off, then call 0333 366 0103. In Haybridge, catching it before the engine turns usually means a drain and a full flush on the spot. Not happened yet? Further down, the rest of the page covers the reasons it happens and the how to prevent it altogether.
AdBlue in a diesel motor: two tanks, two fillers
Many modern diesels in Wookey, like those in Haybridge, carry on two fluids; the engine takes just your diesel. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into your exhaust gas to clean it.
There is a filler for each tank. Many of vehicles share a single flap for the two, whereas some put the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is fuelled at the petrol pump all the time. Far less often, the AdBlue side gets filled — mostly from a bottle, by someone thinking about where it goes. That gap is where the slip lives.
Haybridge: how AdBlue in your diesel tank happens
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
First, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a message from your car, and letting it run out means limp mode — hence a hurried top-up, maybe before work off Elm Close, or at Cheddar Valley Inn on the way home that evening.
The old car's filler is where your hand goes — yet a hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers somewhere else. That is the second factor: a new car.
No part halts the pour after it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. It's seconds, whether out in Henley or bang in the heart of Haybridge.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Before you pour anything, whether on a drive in Keward or a forecourt in Haybridge, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- Check the cap instead of going by position: AdBlue ones are frequently blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones normally are not.
- Many vehicles fit AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- Lift the flap and look for a label — plenty of vehicles show what goes in which filler just there.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that's where your filler sits if it is not by your diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- Whoever had it before will know. Ask as you collect a rental or company car — at Castle Cary's car park, perhaps — not when the warning comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
Wherever across Somerset the light comes on, this is a routine for the day.
- Turn off once parked — level ground, motor off, and never rushed by Portway at the roadside.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after you find the AdBlue filler and read it. Daft, perhaps, yet it does the trick.
- The diesel cap remains on. When both sit under a flap, confirm it's closed before the bottle comes up.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check once more. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the car.
Discover during the second or third step that the bottle went into the wrong filler? That is where you stop. Stage five stays out.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Haybridge?
Short order, then. First: the motor remains off. On many diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so don't switch it on. Topping up with diesel won't weaken it: rather than mixing, AdBlue drops to the base of that tank, right where fuel is taken from.
Ask the attendants to help roll the car away from the pump if you are on a forecourt — the Esso, the Morrisons or somewhere else. On your own drive around Haybridge? So the vehicle remains where it is.
If the engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. The next junction is the place to leave when you're on the M5, under 15 miles from Haybridge. Distance counts — a quick hop across Haybridge makes a smaller job than driving under a mile towards Wells — so say roughly how far it went.
Haybridge: what occurs when our technicians get there
By St Cuthbert's Church of England Academy Infants and Pre-School, close to Wells Leisure Centre or on your own drive: wherever the car has stopped, our technicians come to it. Our technicians ask what was put in, about how much, and whether it's run, since the answers determine the work and our price. The quote comes on the call, before any van leaves.
Then the tank is cleared and your system purged thoroughly. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not wash out on its own. After the filter has been cleaned — or replaced, where required — clean diesel goes in, and then your car is tested. We don't leave until it has been fired up and is running properly.
With pumps fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs in which your motor has not run need about half an hour after we are there. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Misfuelling cover is included in many insurance policies — and so use the wait to check yours.
About Haybridge and where it is
Haybridge is a village situated on the riverside in Somerset, with an elevation of 52 metres, and is located near the city of Wells. Haybridge has a population of approximately 1265 residents and predominantly features semi-detached housing. Haybridge is close to nearby places such as Henley and Burcott, and is within walking distance of Wells. Haybridge is also relatively distant from London, at around 111.5 miles away.
AdBlue drains in Haybridge and across Somerset
Over BA postcodes, our teams covering Haybridge — a village — work the nearby locations too, Wells and Burcott among them. A postcode starting BA5 1 gets our van to you fastest.
No need to move your car. Wherever it stands — near Wells Rugby Club, on a layby heading to The Athletic Ground, on a drive — that is where it gets cleared. If you're close to a border, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of The Little Theatre, ring and ask instead of guessing.
For Haybridge people, the short version
Read the cap before you pour. AdBlue in your diesel tank regardless? Keep the car switched off and ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, throughout Somerset.