AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Heanton Punchardon: Why It Happens and How to Prevent It
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? Then put this page down a moment, leave the ignition and engine off, then ring 0333 366 0103. Caught before your engine runs, it is generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is in Heanton Punchardon. The remainder of this page covers why it takes place and how to make sure it doesn't — handy if you're reading before it has happened.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel car need its own filler?
Plenty of modern diesels in Velator, like those in Heanton Punchardon, carry on two liquids; your engine takes only the diesel. The exhaust, not your engine, is where AdBlue ends up: dosed into the gas to clean it, from its own tank.
Each tank has its own filler. Other vehicles put the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; a lot more place the two side by side under one flap. At the petrol pump, the diesel side gets filled all the time. Much less regularly, the AdBlue side gets topped up — mostly from a bottle, by someone working out where it goes. That gap is where the error lives.
AdBlue in your diesel tank around Heanton Punchardon: how it occurs
Carelessness rarely explains it. What does is three things coming up at once.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and if it runs out completely, the car goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a drive off Luscombe Lane before work, or in the car park outside Williams Arms on the way home.
The old car's filler is where the hand reaches — but a rental car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers elsewhere. That's a second factor: an unfamiliar car.
Nothing halts the tip after it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. It takes seconds, be it in Chivenor or bang in the centre of Heanton Punchardon.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
A few seconds is all these take — so run through them before you pour anything, on a drive in West Ashford or a forecourt in Heanton Punchardon.
- Read the cap rather than going by position: AdBlue ones are commonly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps normally aren't.
- The size. On plenty of motors the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Check inside your fuel flap: many cars have a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that is where your filler is if it is not by your diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- The previous driver will know. Check as you pick up a rental or company car — at Barnstaple's car park, say — rather than once the light comes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
The day the light goes on, anywhere in Devon, use this routine.
- Not in a rush on the side of Eastacombe Rise, not on a slope, not with your motor running: park and switch off first.
- Find the AdBlue filler, read the cap, and speak the word "AdBlue" aloud while unscrewing it. It seems daft. It works.
- The diesel cap stays on. Where the two sit under a flap, confirm it is closed before lifting the bottle.
- Slowly is best, through the bottle's own spout, until it is full or the bottle runs out.
- Close the cap and check once more. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start your car.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you have already poured into your diesel side. Step five is off limits.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Heanton Punchardon?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start the engine. On plenty of diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so don't switch the vehicle on. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where the fuel is drawn from — so don't top up with diesel to thin it.
On a forecourt — Murco, Esso or another — the attendants will usually help push the car clear, if you ask. Leave it where it is if you're on your own drive in Heanton Punchardon.
If your engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. Come off the M4 — under 50 miles out of Heanton Punchardon — at the next exit. A short hop across Heanton Punchardon is a smaller job than a run towards Swansea, under 50 miles away, and so tell us roughly how far it went.
What occurs when our engineers arrive in Heanton Punchardon
Wherever the car came to rest, be it by Southmead School, near St Augustine's or at home, the van comes to it. We ask what went in, about how much, and whether it's run, because the answers settle the work and the price. That price comes over the phone, ahead of any van leaving.
Then that tank is cleared and the fuel system rinsed thoroughly. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not wash out on its own — which is why the flush counts more here than with petrol. Once the fuel filter has been flushed — or replaced, if needed — clean diesel goes in, and then your car gets tested. We don't leave until it has been started and is running properly.
Most jobs are done in roughly half an hour once our engineers arrive, provided your engine has not run — and the pumps we use are fine on a live forecourt yet quiet at night beside a house. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Misfuelling cover is part of plenty of insurance policies — so make use of the wait to check yours.
About Heanton Punchardon itself
Heanton Punchardon is a small village in Devon, situated on the riverside at an elevation of 57 metres, with terraced housing being the predominant type of accommodation. Heanton Punchardon lies near the villages of Chivenor, Wrafton, and Braunton, and is approximately 36.9 miles from Swansea. Heanton Punchardon has a population of around 610 people and is located in the South West region of England, about 175.5 miles from London. Heanton Punchardon is a typical example of a rural village in the area, with a strong sense of community.
AdBlue drains in Heanton Punchardon and across Devon
Wrafton and Braunton are among the places around Heanton Punchardon, a village, that the same teams cover, throughout EX postcodes. A postcode starting EX31 4 gets the van to you fastest.
The vehicle doesn't need to move. The drain takes place right there, whether a driveway, a road by RMB Church, or a lay-by towards Parson's Copse. Tricky to explain, like the back of Rescue Helicopter Viewing Area? By a county line? Checking is better than guessing, so ring.
Heanton Punchardon motorists: the short version
Always, the cap; then, the tip. AdBlue in your diesel tank after all? Leave it switched off then ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, throughout Devon.