AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Hurst: How It Happens and How to Avoid It
Leave the engine and ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait when AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Usually, if the motor hasn't turned, it's emptied and fully cleaned where your car sits around Hurst. The rest of this page covers why it occurs and how to ensure it doesn't — useful if you're reading ahead of time.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel car need its own filler?
Not one fluid but two: that's how many newer diesels around Hurst and Highway carry, with diesel feeding your motor. Its own tank holds it, and from there it is sent to your exhaust, where spraying cleans the fumes.
There is a filler on each tank. Plenty of vehicles have a single flap for the two, while others put the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. Filling your diesel side at the petrol pump goes on constantly. Much less frequently, the AdBlue side is filled — mostly from a bottle, by a person thinking about where it goes. The mistake grows in that gap between them.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank happens around Hurst
It's hardly ever carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
Haste follows from the warning. The car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank sends it into limp mode — so the top-up happens in a rush, before work on a drive off Hurst, or heading home in the car park outside Rose and Crown.
The old car's filler is where the hand reaches — yet a hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers somewhere else. That's a second factor: a new vehicle.
Lastly, the spout fits: diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it slides in as easily, and after the tip starts, no part stops it. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Hurst or out in Martock.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Check these first, on a forecourt around Hurst or a drive out in West Stoke. A few seconds, that's all.
- Read the cap rather than going by position: AdBlue ones are frequently blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps normally aren't.
- Look at the size: the smaller filler neck is, on many cars, the AdBlue one.
- Open the filler flap and look for a label — plenty of motors mark what belongs in each inlet just there.
- The handbook. If the filler is not by your diesel cap, it's in your boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- The person who drove it last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park outside Crewkerne, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever across Somerset that is.
- Not in a rush on the side of Water Street, not on a slope, not with your motor running: park then switch off properly.
- Daft as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew the cap works — once you've found the filler and read the cap.
- The diesel cap remains on. Where both sit under a flap, confirm it is closed before the bottle comes up.
- Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap, then look again — confirm your diesel cap remained shut the whole time. Only then, start your car.
Find at the second or third stage that the bottle went in the diesel filler? That is where you stop. Step five stays off limits.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Hurst?
Do not start the motor: that's where the short order of things begins. The fuel pump starts on many diesels the moment the ignition goes on — so leave it off. Topping up with diesel won't weaken it: rather than mixing, AdBlue drops to the base of the tank, right where fuel is taken from.
If you are at a forecourt, whether it is the Texaco or the BP, ask the staff to help roll the vehicle clear of the pump. Leave it where it is if you're on your own drive around Hurst.
Where the motor has been run by now, pull over safely and turn the car off. On the M5, under 15 miles from Hurst, that means the next exit. Roughly how far did it go? Hopping across Hurst is less a job than a run of under 25 miles to Wells, and so say.
Hurst: what takes place when our engineers arrive
Our technicians come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside Martock Church School, near Bridge House or on your own drive. Both the work and our price depend on three replies — which fluid, which amount, and whether it's run — so our engineers ask. On the call itself, you are told the quote — before dispatch.
Draining your tank comes next, then a full flush of the system. With AdBlue that matters more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't wash out on its own. Testing is last: before that, clean diesel is added, and the filter is flushed or replaced as needed. The motor is started next and tested to confirm it runs correctly, all before we leave.
Most jobs are finished in about half an hour after we arrive, provided the motor hasn't run — and the pumps our technicians use are fine on a busy forecourt yet quiet after dark outside a house. The insurer will ask for an engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and both are yours once the job is done. Payment comes on the day, with no deposit. It is worth checking your insurance while we travel to you: misfuelling cover is included with many policies.
About Hurst, for a moment
Hurst is a small suburban area in Somerset, situated on the riverside at an elevation of 18 metres. Hurst lies near the towns of Martock and Wells, and is surrounded by other nearby places such as Bower Hinton and Coat. Hurst has a population of approximately 844 residents, who mostly live in detached housing. Hurst is located 17.6 miles from Wells and 120.4 miles from London.
AdBlue drains across Somerset, Hurst included
Over TA postcodes, the vans that cover Hurst — a residential suburb — work the surrounding locations too, Coat and Bower Hinton among them. Quote a postcode beginning TA12 6, and the van arrives fastest.
The car remains put. Anywhere it stands — near All Saints Church, on a layby heading to Shore's Wood, on a drive — that's where it is emptied. Awkward to explain, like the back of The George Inn? Close to a border? Checking is better than guessing, so phone.
For Hurst drivers, the short version
Pour no AdBlue until you've read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank all the same, leave the vehicle off and ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel clears it where it sits, anywhere around Somerset.