Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Higham on the Hill: Why It Occurs
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your motor and your ignition off and call 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a full flush, carried out right where the car sits around Higham on the Hill, is normally what it takes when found before the motor runs. Reading in advance? In that case the rest covers why it happens and what to prevent it ever happening.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
Not one liquid but two: that's how many newer diesels around Higham on the Hill and Stoke Golding carry, with diesel for the engine. Its own tank keeps it, and from there it goes to your exhaust, and there spraying treats the fumes.
Each tank has one filler of its own. On a lot of cars the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in your boot or under the bonnet. Filling your diesel side at the petrol pump goes on constantly. The AdBlue side is fuelled far less regularly, normally from a bottle, and normally by somebody who has to stop and think where it goes. The mistake grows in that gap between them.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank happen in Higham on the Hill?
It is hardly ever carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a warning from your car, and letting it run dry leads to limp mode — so a rushed top-up, perhaps before work off Station Road, or at The Oddfellows Arms on the way home after work.
Then the vehicle is new. A hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and the hand gets to for the cap it would have used on the old one.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, so nothing stops the pour after it has started. St Nicolas Park or the middle of Higham on the Hill: it takes the same few seconds either way.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
A couple of seconds is all the checks take — so check them before you tip anything, on a driveway in Wykin or a forecourt in Higham on the Hill.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap normally is not. Read it instead of going by position.
- The size. On many cars the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- A label inside your fuel flap frequently says which fuel goes where, on plenty of vehicles. Look for it.
- Cannot see it beside your diesel inlet? In that case check below the bonnet or in your boot — the owner's manual says which.
- The person who drove the vehicle last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park outside Nuneaton, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
On the day the warning appears — anywhere you are around Leicestershire — a simple routine to follow.
- Pull in on level, motor off, with time in hand — not rushing on the side of Main Street.
- Daft as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew the cap works — after you've found your filler and read the cap.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave the vehicle on.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Shut the cap, and look once more — making sure the diesel cap remained closed the whole time. After that, start the vehicle.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Don't go on to step five.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Higham on the Hill already?
What follows is a short order of things, starting with not starting your engine. Don't switch your ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where your fuel is pulled from — so don't top up with diesel to thin it.
On a forecourt — Petrol / Diesel Station, Fueling Zone or another — the attendants will normally help roll the vehicle away, if you ask. Leave it where it is if you are on your own driveway in Higham on the Hill.
When your motor has run by now, pull over somewhere safe then turn it off. On the M69, under 5 miles from Higham on the Hill, that means the next junction. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Coventry, under 15 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Higham on the Hill.
What occurs when we turn up around Higham on the Hill
We come to the vehicle wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside Higham-on-the-Hill Church of England Primary School, close to Higham on the Hill Methodist Church or on your own drive. Those replies determine this work and the quote, so our engineers ask what went in, roughly how much, and whether it's run. The price is given over the phone, ahead of any van leaving.
Your system is then flushed thoroughly, once that tank is cleared. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and eats at some fuel-system metals, and neither clears out by itself. Hence it counts more. After the fuel filter has been cleaned — or replaced, if required — clean diesel goes in, and then your car gets tested. The motor is fired up next and checked to confirm it runs properly, all before we leave.
Unrun cars usually mean a half-hour visit after arrival. The kit is fine on a live filling station, and quiet enough for a residential street late at night. No money in advance; you settle up on the day. Afterwards, the VAT invoice and the report from the engineer go to you for your insurer. While we travel, have a look at your insurance documents; many carry cover for misfuelling.
About Higham on the Hill itself
Higham on the Hill is a small village in Leicestershire, situated in the East Midlands region of England, with a population of around 941 people. Higham on the Hill sits at an elevation of 112 metres, approximately 10.5 miles from Coventry and 91.5 miles from London. Higham on the Hill is characterised by its semi-detached housing and is near to other local places such as St Nicolas Park, Caldecote, and Weddington. Higham on the Hill remains a quiet, rural community with a strong sense of local identity.
AdBlue drains around Higham on the Hill and across Leicestershire
Caldecote and Weddington are among the places around Higham on the Hill, a rural village, that the same teams cover, throughout CV postcodes. Give a postcode beginning CV13 6, and our van arrives quickest.
There's no need to shift your car. Our engineers drain it where it is — a side street near St Peters Church, a lay-by on the way to Coronation Walk, a driveway. Guessing won't help behind YWAM - King's Lodge, on a border, or somewhere awkward to pin down; ring and check.
In short, for Higham on the Hill motorists
Read the cap before you tip. Even so AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can drain it where it stands, anywhere in Leicestershire: keep the car off then phone 0333 366 0103.