Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Hullavington: Why It Happens
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the motor and the ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103. Usually, when your engine hasn't turned, it is emptied and thoroughly purged where the vehicle sits around Hullavington. Not happened yet? Below, the page covers the why it takes place and the ways to prevent it altogether.
AdBlue in a diesel car, and its separate tank
Diesel feeds your motor — yet many current diesels seen around Hullavington and Leigh Delamere hold a second fluid as well. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into your exhaust gas to clean it.
Each tank has its own filler. Many of motors share a single flap for both, while some move the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. Filling your diesel side at the pump happens all the time. A driver who has to stop and work out where it goes normally fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less frequently. That gap is where the mistake lives.
Hullavington: how AdBlue in your diesel tank takes place
Rarely is it carelessness: normally three things coincide.
Hurry follows from the warning. The car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank sends the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up gets done in a rush, before work on a drive off Watts Lane, or on the way home in the car park outside The Star Inn.
The old car's cap is where your hand reaches — yet a hire car, a new motor or a company car keeps the fillers somewhere else. That's a second thing: a new car.
No part halts the pour once it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Hullavington or out in Stanton St Quintin.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Whether a Hullavington forecourt or a drive over in Clanville, spend a couple of seconds on these before any goes in.
- Where it sits can mislead; the cap does not. AdBlue ones are often blue or bear the name "AdBlue" — diesel caps normally don't.
- Many vehicles give AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- Check inside your fuel flap: plenty of 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.
- Ask the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — when you pick up a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park at Chippenham.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
Wherever across Wiltshire the light comes on, here is a routine for that day.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with your engine running, and not in a rush on the side of The Street.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and it works.
- The diesel cap stays on. Where the two share a flap, confirm it is closed before lifting the bottle.
- Slowly is best, through the bottle's own spout, until it's full or the bottle runs out.
- 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 have already poured into your diesel side. Never carry on to step five.
Hullavington: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Don't start the motor: that's where the short order of things starts. On plenty of diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so don't switch the vehicle on. Do not top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where the fuel is sucked from.
On a forecourt — the nearest petrol station, BP or another — the staff will normally help push the vehicle away, if you ask. Leave it where it is if you are on your own drive around Hullavington.
Where your motor has run by now, stop safely then switch the vehicle off. The next exit means the place to come off when you're on the M4, under 3 miles from Hullavington. Distance matters — a quick hop across Hullavington is a smaller job than heading under 15 miles towards Bath — so tell us about how far it went.
What happens when our engineers get there around Hullavington
Wherever the vehicle came to rest, whether outside Hullavington CofE Primary and Nursery School, near Hullavington Village Hall or at home, our van comes to it. Both the work and the quote rest on three replies — what liquid, which amount, and if it's run — so our technicians ask. No one heads out before you have heard the price over the phone.
After that: draining, then a full flush of the entire system. Not like petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and eats at certain fuel-system metals, and neither clears out unaided. That is why it counts more. After the fuel filter is cleaned — or renewed, if needed — fresh diesel goes in, and then your car is tested. Before we go, our engineers start the car and check that it's running properly.
With pumps fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs where the motor has not run take roughly half an hour once we are there. Your 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 money upfront. While we travel, have a look at your insurance documents; plenty include cover for misfuelling.
About Hullavington and where it is
Hullavington is a village in north Wiltshire, situated inland at an elevation of around 101 metres, with semi-detached housing being the predominant type. Hullavington lies near the villages of Stanton St Quintin and Norton, and is approximately 14 miles from the city of Bath. Hullavington has a population of around 1065 residents, and is located about 87 miles west of London. Hullavington remains a small, rural community with a strong sense of local identity.
AdBlue drains around Hullavington and across Wiltshire
Hullavington is a rural village, and the vans that cover it also work the towns near it, Norton and Lower Stanton St Quintin among them, across the SN postcode area. Quickest of all: give a SN14 6 postcode for our van.
Your car does not need to shift. Wherever it sits — near Church of St. Mary, in a layby en route to Stock Wood, at home — that is where it is cleared. Awkward to pin down, like the back of M4 Karting? Close to a county line? Checking is better than guessing, and so phone.
Hullavington people: the short version
Before you pour, read the cap. Even so AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can drain it wherever it stands, wherever around Wiltshire: switch the car off and ring 0333 366 0103.