AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Kingston Hill: How It Occurs and How to Avoid It
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the engine and the ignition off then call 0333 366 0103. Caught before your motor runs, it is generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is in Kingston Hill. Here before the event? Then what follows explains how it happens and how to prevent it happening at all.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
Plenty of modern diesels in Queensville, like those in Kingston Hill, run on two liquids; the engine takes only your diesel. Your exhaust, not your engine, is where AdBlue goes: sprayed into the fumes to fresh it, from a separate tank.
There's a filler on every tank. On a lot of cars the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in your boot or under the bonnet. At the pump, the diesel side is topped up constantly. Seldom topped up, AdBlue usually comes from a bottle, tipped by someone who must stop and think what filler to use. That gap is where the error lives.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank take place in Kingston Hill?
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
Haste comes from the warning. The vehicle warns 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 driveway off Avon Rise, or heading home in the car park at Metropolitan Bar.
Then, your hand reaches for the cap it knew on the old vehicle — because a rental car, a new vehicle or a company car places the fillers where your last one didn't.
A spout-topped bottle finds no obstacle at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. So the tip, after begun, carries on. It takes a few seconds, whether out in Littleworth or right in the heart of Kingston Hill.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
A couple of seconds is all the checks take — so run through them before you pour anything, on a driveway in Forebridge or a forecourt in Kingston Hill.
- Where it sits misleads; the cap doesn't. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or carry the name "AdBlue" — diesel ones usually do not.
- On plenty of vehicles, size gives it away: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- Open the filler flap and check for a label — many cars show what belongs in which filler right there.
- Cannot see it beside your diesel filler? In that case look beneath the bonnet or in your boot — the owner's manual will say where.
- The person who drove the car last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park outside Stafford, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
When the light goes on, anywhere across Staffordshire, use this routine.
- Pull in somewhere level, engine off, with time in hand — never hurried on the side of Lytham Drive.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after you find the AdBlue filler and read it. Silly, perhaps, but it does the trick.
- The diesel cap stays on. When the two share a flap, make sure it's shut before the bottle comes up.
- Slowly is best, through the bottle's own spout, till it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check once more. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
Find at stage two or three that it has already gone into your diesel side? So stop just there. Never go on to step five.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, around Kingston Hill?
Short order, then. First: the engine stays unstarted. The fuel pump runs on plenty of diesels the moment your ignition is switched on — and so keep it off. Do not top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is pulled from.
If you're on a forecourt, whether it is the Esso or the Asda, ask the attendants to help push the vehicle away from the petrol pump. At home in Kingston Hill? So the car stays where it is.
If the engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. On the M6, under 3 miles from Kingston Hill, that means the next junction. Distance matters — a quick hop across Kingston Hill makes a smaller job than heading under 15 miles to Lichfield — so say about how far it went.
Kingston Hill: what occurs when we turn up
Anywhere the car has stopped, be it by St Leonard's Primary School, near Parish Church of St John the Baptist or at home, our van comes to it. Both the work and our price rest on three replies — which liquid, what amount, and if it has run — so our technicians ask. On the phone call itself, you are told the quote — before anything else.
Draining that 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, so it does not wash out on its own — which is why that counts more with AdBlue than with petrol. Testing is at the end: before that, clean diesel goes in, and your filter is cleaned or replaced as needed. After that our engineers fire it up and confirm it runs smoothly before leaving.
If the engine hasn't run, most jobs take about half an hour once we're there, using pumps that are fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house after dark. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Kingston Hill
Kingston Hill is a suburban area in Staffordshire, situated near the River Trent at an elevation of 83 metres. Kingston Hill lies approximately 13.9 miles from Lichfield and is surrounded by nearby places such as Littleworth, Beaconside, and Baswich. Kingston Hill has a population of around 3217 people and predominantly features semi-detached housing. Kingston Hill is located in the West Midlands region, about 122.3 miles northwest of London.
Kingston Hill and Staffordshire: AdBlue drains across the area
As a residential suburb, Kingston Hill has the same vans as nearby places — Beaconside, Baswich — right through ST postcodes and the wider area beyond. Quote a postcode that starts ST16 3, and the van gets there quickest.
The vehicle stays put. The drain takes place right there, whether a driveway, a street by Holy Trinity Church, Baswich (Berkswich Parish Church), or a layby towards the green space at the edge of the village. Awkward to explain, like the back of Evans Park? Close to a border? Asking beats guessing, and so ring.
For Kingston Hill drivers, the short version
Pour nothing till you have read the cap. Still AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can empty it where it is, wherever around Staffordshire: keep it off and call 0333 366 0103.