AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Holt: Why It Happens and How to Stop It
Leave your engine and ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait when AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. A drain and a full flush, carried out right where your car sits in Holt, is normally all it takes if found before your motor runs. The remainder of this page covers why it occurs and how to make sure it doesn't — useful if you are reading ahead of time.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle, and its separate tank
Plenty of modern diesels on the roads around Holt and Whaddon carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the motor. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into the exhaust stream and cleans it.
Different tanks, separate fillers. Other vehicles put the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; plenty more place both side by side under one flap. Filling the diesel side at the pump happens all the time. The AdBlue side is topped up far less commonly, normally from a bottle, and usually by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. It's in that gap that the error happens.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank take place in Holt?
Seldom is it carelessness: usually three things line up.
On a driveway off The Midlands before work, or in the car park outside The Old Ham Tree Inn heading home: that's where the rushed top-up happens. Why the rush? As AdBlue gets low your car warns you, and once it is empty, limp mode follows.
Then the car is unfamiliar. A hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and your hand hits for the cap it would have used on the old one.
A spouted bottle finds no obstacle at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. And so the pour, once started, keeps on. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Holt or out in Ham Green.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
A couple of seconds is all these take — so run through them before you tip anything, on a driveway in Forewoods Common or a forecourt around Holt.
- Blue and lettering: an AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally does not. Go by the cap, not where it sits.
- Many motors fit AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- A label inside the fuel flap frequently shows which fuel goes where, on many vehicles. Look for it.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that's where your filler is if it is not by your diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- Check with the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — when you collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside Bradford-On-Avon.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around Wiltshire that is.
- Stop somewhere level, motor off, with time in hand — not rushing on the side of The Common.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it works.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave the vehicle on.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty.
- Before you start your car, close the cap and look again that the diesel cap was never came off.
Find at step two or three that it's already gone into your diesel side? So stop just there. Step five stays out.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Holt already?
Do not start your motor: that is where the short order of things starts. The fuel pump starts on plenty of diesels the moment your ignition is switched on — and so leave it off. Thinning it with extra diesel fails, since AdBlue sinks to the base instead of mixing — and that is where your fuel is sucked from.
If you're at a forecourt, whether it is the Texaco or the Murco, ask the staff to help roll your car clear of the petrol pump. If you're on your own drive around Holt, leave the car where it is.
If your engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. Holt lies under 15 miles from the M4; there, use the first exit. A short hop across Holt is a smaller job than a run towards Bath, under 10 miles away, so tell us roughly how far it went.
Our arrival in Holt, and what occurs next
Our van comes to the vehicle anywhere it stopped — your own driveway, near Holt Village Hall, or outside Holt Voluntary Controlled Primary School. Which liquid went in, the amount, and if it ran: our engineers ask since those answers decide both work and quote. You get that price on the phone, before anybody sets off.
Emptying the tank comes next, then a full flush of the system. Much more than with petrol, it counts with AdBlue: the crystals build up, some metals corrode, and none of it clears out unaided, no matter how long it sits. After the filter is cleaned — or replaced, if required — fresh diesel goes in, and finally the car is tested. The motor is started next and tested to make sure it runs properly, all before we leave.
Unrun vehicles usually need a half-hour job from the moment we arrive. The equipment is safe on a live forecourt, and hushed enough for a driveway late at night. The insurer will ask for an engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and both are yours at the end. Payment is on the day, with no deposit. Before we get there, have a look at your policy; plenty include cover for misfuelling.
About Holt and where it is
Holt is a village in Wiltshire, situated inland near the city of Bath, with Holt being close to several nearby places including Ham Green, Great Chalfield, and Staverton. Holt has a population of around 1052 people and is characterised by semi-detached housing. Holt sits at an elevation of 43 metres, relatively low compared to surrounding areas, and is located about 89.7 miles west of London.
Holt and Wiltshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Throughout BA postcodes, our vans that cover Holt — a rural village — work the surrounding locations too, Staverton and Great Chalfield included. Give a postcode that starts BA14 6, and our van arrives fastest.
The vehicle doesn't need to move. We drain it where it is — a side street near United Reformed Church, a lay-by on the way to The Courts Garden, a driveway. Tricky to pin down, like the back of The Courts Garden? By a border? Asking is better than assuming, so ring.
In short, for Holt motorists
Before you tip, read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank all the same, leave the vehicle off then ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it waits, anywhere in Wiltshire.