Hightown: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
Keep the motor and ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103 now — reading can wait when AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Caught before your motor runs, it is generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is in Hightown. Nothing happened yet? Further down, the rest of the page covers the reasons it occurs and the ways to prevent it altogether.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
Plenty of modern diesels around Maes-y-Dre, as well as Hightown, carry on two liquids; the motor takes only your diesel. AdBlue's own tank keeps it, and from there it is sent to your exhaust, and there spraying cleans the fumes.
Each tank has its own filler. Some cars put the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; a lot more have the two together behind one flap. Diesel goes in on each filling station visit, again and again. A driver who has to stop and think where it goes usually fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less commonly. The mistake lives in that gap.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank take place in Hightown?
Seldom is it carelessness: usually three things line up.
On a drive off St John's Road before work, or in the car park outside The Kings Mills Pub heading home: that's where the hurried top-up happens. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and once it's empty, limp mode kicks in.
Then, your hand reaches for the cap it knew on the old motor — because a hire car, a new motor or a company car places the fillers somewhere your last one didn't.
No part stops the tip after it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Kings Mills or the middle of Hightown: it takes the same few seconds in both.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
Before you tip anything, whether on a drive in Rhosnesni or a forecourt in Hightown, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- Read the cap rather than going by position: AdBlue ones are regularly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps normally are not.
- Plenty of vehicles fit AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- Look inside your fuel flap: many motors carry a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If your filler isn't by the diesel cap, it is in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Picking up a hire or company car, say at the car park at Wrexham Central? Ask whoever drove the vehicle last before leaving, rather than once the light comes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
On the day the light appears — wherever it is in Wrexham — a simple routine to follow.
- Stop somewhere level, motor off, with time to spare — never hurried on the side of Warwick Avenue.
- Silly as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew the cap does the trick — after you've located the filler and read it.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave it on.
- Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty.
- Only after that, start the car: close the cap, check once more, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you've already poured into the diesel side. Step five stays off limits.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Hightown?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start your engine. Don't switch the ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Diluting it with extra diesel fails, since AdBlue settles to the bottom rather than mixing — and that is where the fuel is sucked from.
If you are at a forecourt, whether it is the Texaco or the Tesco, ask the staff to help push your car clear of the petrol pump. If you are on your own drive in Hightown, leave it where it stands.
Already started? Pull over once it's sensible, then switch off. The next exit is the place to leave when you are on the M53, under 15 miles from Hightown. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Wrexham, under a mile away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Hightown.
Our arrival in Hightown, and what happens next
We come to the car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside the local primary school, close to Hightown Community Resource Centre or on your own drive. Both the work and the quote rest on three replies — which fluid, what amount, and if it's run — so our technicians ask. Nobody heads out before you have had the price over the phone.
After that: a drain, then a full flush of the whole system. Much more than with petrol, it matters here: crystals form, certain metals are attacked, and nothing washes out on its own, no matter how long it sits. A test is at the end: before that, fresh diesel goes in, and the fuel filter is cleaned or changed as needed. Before we go, our technicians fire it up and make sure that it is running properly.
If your motor hasn't 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. Nothing in advance; you settle up that day. At the end, the VAT invoice and a report from the engineer go to you for your insurer. Misfuelling cover is part of plenty of insurance policies — and so use the wait to check yours.
About Hightown, for a moment
Hightown is a suburban area located on the outskirts of Wrexham, situated near the river and at an elevation of 83 metres. Hightown is characterized by its predominantly flat-type housing and is close to nearby places such as Kings Mills and The Dunks. Hightown is a relatively small community with a population of around 5910 people, and is within walking distance of Wrexham city centre. Hightown sits in a region of north-east Wales, near the English border.
AdBlue drains in Hightown and across Wrexham
Hightown is a residential suburb, and the teams that cover it also work the towns around it, The Dunks and Wrexham among them, across the LL postcode area. The van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting LL13 8.
The vehicle remains put. Wherever it stands — beside Queensway Leisure and Activity Centre, on a layby heading to Queen's Park Recreation Ground, at home — that is where it gets cleared. If you are close to a border, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of Dynamic Wrexham, ring and ask instead of assuming.
In short, for Hightown people
First, the cap; then, the tip. AdBlue in the diesel tank regardless? Leave it switched off then phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, throughout Wrexham.