Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Higher Kinnerton: Why It Occurs
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your motor and the ignition off and call 0333 366 0103. A drain and a thorough flush, done right where the car stands in Higher Kinnerton, is usually all it takes when found before the motor runs. Reading in advance? In that case what follows explains how it comes about and what to prevent it ever happening.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel vehicle need its own filler?
Many current diesels on the roads around Higher Kinnerton and Lower Mountain carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your engine. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into your exhaust gas to clean it.
Separate tanks, different fillers. Other vehicles put the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; a lot more place the two together behind one flap. The diesel side is topped up at the pump all the time. Much less often, the AdBlue side gets topped up — normally from a bottle, by a person thinking about where it goes. The mistake grows in the gap between them.
Higher Kinnerton: how AdBlue in the diesel tank takes place
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
On a drive off Bennetts Lane before work, or in the car park at The Swan heading home: that's where the hurried top-up takes place. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue gets low your car warns you, and if it's empty, limp mode follows.
Then the car is new. A hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and your hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old one.
No part halts the tip once it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Kinnerton Green or the heart of Higher Kinnerton: it takes the same few seconds in both.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Whether a Higher Kinnerton forecourt or a drive out in Broughton, spend a couple of seconds on these before any goes in.
- Where it sits can mislead; the cap does not. AdBlue caps tend to be blue or bear the name "AdBlue" — diesel caps normally don't.
- On plenty of vehicles, the size tells: AdBlue has the smaller filler neck.
- A label inside your fuel flap frequently shows which fuel goes where, on plenty of vehicles. Check for it.
- The handbook. If the filler is not by the diesel cap, it is in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Ask 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 Penyffordd.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
For the day the light appears — anywhere it is around Flintshire — a simple routine to follow.
- Not in a rush on the side of Park Avenue, not on a slope, not with the engine running: park then switch off first.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it works.
- Both under a single flap? So confirm the cap on the diesel filler stays shut before raising the bottle.
- Stop once the tank fills or the bottle is empty; until then, tip slowly using the built-in spout.
- Close the cap and check a second time. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
Stop there if you find, at stage two or three, that you have already poured into your diesel side. Stage five is off limits.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, around Higher Kinnerton?
Don't start your motor: that's where the short order of things begins. The fuel pump starts on plenty of diesels the moment your ignition goes on — so keep it off. Thinning it with more diesel fails, since AdBlue sinks to the bottom instead of blending — and that's where your fuel is pulled from.
Ask the attendants to help roll the vehicle away from the pump if you are at a forecourt — the Texaco, the Tesco or somewhere else. If you're on your own driveway around Higher Kinnerton, leave the vehicle where it sits.
If the engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. On the M56, under 10 miles from Higher Kinnerton, that means the next exit. Distance counts — a quick hop across Higher Kinnerton is a smaller job than driving under 10 miles towards Chester — so say about how far it went.
What takes place when our engineers turn up around Higher Kinnerton
Anywhere your car has stopped, be it by Dodleston CofE Primary School, beside Kinnerton Village Hall or at home, our van travels to it. Our technicians ask what was put in, roughly how much, and if it's run, since those answers settle the work and our price. No one sets off before you have heard the price over the phone.
Then your tank is cleared and your system cleaned thoroughly. Not like petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and eats at certain fuel-system metals, and none of that washes out by itself. That is why it counts more. Your filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and your car is tested. The motor is started next and checked to make sure it runs correctly, all before our technicians head off.
If your engine has not run, most jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night. Payment happens on the day, not upfront, and you are given the documents your insurer wants: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. It's worth checking your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover comes with many policies.
About Higher Kinnerton, for a moment
Higher Kinnerton is a village in Flintshire, situated inland near the England-Wales border, with an elevation of around 44 metres. Higher Kinnerton lies close to the city of Chester, which is approximately 5.7 miles away, and is part of a wider area that includes nearby Kinnerton Green and Lower Kinnerton. Higher Kinnerton has a population of around 1731 people, predominantly living in detached houses.
AdBlue drains round Higher Kinnerton, and Flintshire beyond
Lower Kinnerton and Honkley are among the places around Higher Kinnerton, a rural village, that the same teams cover, throughout CH postcodes. The van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting CH4 9.
The vehicle stays put. The drain takes place right there, be it a drive, a street near All Saints, or a layby on the way to Gravelhole Wood. If you're near a border, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of Scout hut, ring and ask instead of assuming.
In short, for Higher Kinnerton people
Read the cap before you tip. AdBlue in your diesel tank after all? Keep the car off then call 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, throughout Flintshire.