Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Kings Corner: Why It Occurs
Pause here a minute when your diesel tank already has AdBlue in it: ignition off, engine off, then phone 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a full flush, carried out right where the vehicle stands in Kings Corner, is usually what it takes if found before your engine runs. The rest of this page explains why it happens and how to ensure it doesn't — handy if you are reading before it has happened.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle, and its separate tank
Diesel feeds your engine — but plenty of current diesels driven around Kings Corner and Kepnal carry a second liquid as well. Its own tank holds it, and from there it is sent to your exhaust, where a spray cleans the gas.
Each tank has a filler of its own. Under one flap, side by side: that is the layout on a lot of vehicles. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler sits beneath the bonnet or in your boot instead. Filling your diesel side at the pump happens all the time. Much less commonly, the AdBlue side is topped up — normally from a bottle, by someone thinking about where it goes. The mistake grows in the gap between them.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank happens around Kings Corner
Seldom is it carelessness: usually three things line up.
On a driveway off Kings Corner before work, or in the car park at The Coopers Arms heading home: that's where the rushed top-up takes place. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue gets low the car warns you, and if it's empty, limp mode follows.
The old car's filler is where the hand goes — yet a hire car, a new motor or a company car keeps the fillers somewhere else. That's the second factor: an unfamiliar motor.
Third, the bottle fits: diesel filler or AdBlue one, it goes in as easily, and after the pour starts, no part stops it. Southcott or the middle of Kings Corner: it is the same few seconds in both.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
A couple of seconds is all the checks take — so run through them before you tip anything, on a driveway in Knowle or a forecourt around Kings Corner.
- Position misleads; the cap does not. AdBlue caps tend to be blue or bear the name "AdBlue" — diesel caps normally do not.
- Look at the size: the smaller neck is, on plenty of cars, the AdBlue one.
- Look inside the fuel flap: plenty of cars have a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that is where your filler is if it's not by your diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- The person who drove the car last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park at Pewsey, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever in Wiltshire that is.
- Park and switch off. Not on a slope, not with your motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Easterton Lane.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and it works.
- 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.
- Before you start the car, close the cap and look a second time that the diesel cap never came off.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Step five is off limits.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Kings Corner already?
Do not start your motor: that is where the short order of things starts. Keep your ignition off as well, because on many diesels it alone starts your fuel pump. Thinning it with more diesel won't work, since AdBlue sinks to the base rather than blending — and that's where your fuel is sucked from.
Ask the attendants to help push your car clear of the petrol pump if you are at a forecourt — the Esso, the another forecourt nearby or somewhere else. At home in Kings Corner? Then your car stays put.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if your engine has already run. The next junction is where to come off if you're on the M4, under 15 miles from Kings Corner. Distance matters — a quick hop across Kings Corner makes a smaller job than driving under 25 miles towards Salisbury — so tell us about how far it went.
What occurs when our engineers arrive around Kings Corner
The van comes to the vehicle anywhere it has come to rest — your own driveway, near King Alfred, or by Pewsey Primary School. Both the work and our quote rest on three answers — which fluid, what amount, and if it has run — so our technicians ask. That quote is given on the call, ahead of any van leaving.
Emptying the tank comes next, followed by a full flush of the fuel system. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not wash out on its own — which is why the flush matters more here than with petrol. Filter cleaned or, where it must be, swapped; fresh diesel in; and then a check of the car. Your engine is fired up next and tested to be sure it runs properly, all before our engineers head off.
Unrun cars usually need a half-hour visit from arrival. The kit is fine on a live forecourt, and hushed enough for a residential street after dark. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. While we travel, take a look at your insurance documents; plenty carry cover for misfuelling.
About Kings Corner
Kings Corner is a suburban area in Wiltshire, situated near the riverside with an elevation of 113 metres. Kings Corner lies within the South West region of England, approximately 71 miles from London and 18 miles from the city of Salisbury. Kings Corner is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock, reflecting its residential nature. Kings Corner is close to nearby places such as Southcott, Pewsey, and Swan.
AdBlue drains around Kings Corner, and Wiltshire beyond
Pewsey and Swan are among the places near Kings Corner, a residential suburb, that the same teams cover, throughout SN postcodes. A postcode starting SN9 5 gets our van to you fastest.
The vehicle remains put. Draining happens right there, whether a drive, a street near Pewsey Heritage Centre, or a lay-by on the way to The Schotchel. Assuming doesn't help at the back of St John the Baptist, on a boundary, or somewhere hard to pin down; ring and check.
For Kings Corner drivers, the short version
Read the cap before you tip. AdBlue in your diesel tank after all? Leave the vehicle switched off and ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, throughout Wiltshire.