Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Kinver: Why It Occurs
Leave your motor and ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103 first — reading can wait if AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. A drain and a full flush, carried out right where the vehicle stands around Kinver, is normally all it takes if caught before the engine runs. The rest of this page covers why it happens and how to ensure it doesn't — handy if you're reading before it has happened.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel motor
Diesel goes to the motor — but many newer diesels seen round Kinver and Whittington hold another liquid too. Your exhaust, not your motor, is where AdBlue ends up: sprayed into the gas to clean it, from a separate tank.
Each tank has its own filler. Under one flap, side by side: that is the arrangement on a lot of motors. On others, AdBlue's filler sits under the bonnet or in your boot instead. The diesel side is topped up at the pump all the time. Much less frequently, the AdBlue side gets filled — normally from a bottle, by a person thinking about where it goes. That gap is where the mistake lives.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank happen in Kinver?
Seldom is it carelessness: usually three things coincide.
On a driveway off White Hill before work, or in the car park at Plough & Harrow heading home: that is where the hurried top-up takes place. Why the rush? As AdBlue gets low the vehicle tells you, and if it's empty, limp mode kicks in.
Unfamiliar vehicles are next, as well. Hire cars, new motors and company vehicles put their fillers in new places, and the hand reaches for the cap used on the old one.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, and so nothing stops the tip after it has started. Whether it takes place in Dunsley or the middle of Kinver, it's the same few seconds.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
Be it a Kinver forecourt or a drive over in Kingsford, spend a couple of seconds on these before any is poured in.
- Position misleads; the cap doesn't. AdBlue caps tend to be blue or bear the name "AdBlue" — diesel caps usually don't.
- Many vehicles fit AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- Open the filler flap and check for a label — many motors show what belongs in each inlet right there.
- Can't find it next to the diesel filler? Then check beneath the bonnet or inside the boot — the handbook will say which.
- The person who drove it last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park outside Stourbridge Town, 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 Staffordshire that is.
- Not in a rush on the side of Enville Road, not on a slope, not with the motor running: park then switch off first.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after you find the AdBlue filler and reading it. Silly, yes, yet it works.
- The diesel cap remains on. When both sit under a flap, confirm it is shut before lifting the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Shut the cap, and look once more — making sure the diesel cap remained shut throughout. Only then, start the car.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you've already poured into your diesel side. Stage five is off limits.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, in Kinver?
Do not start your engine: that's where the short order of things starts. Keep your ignition off too, since on plenty of diesels it by itself runs the pump. Diluting it with extra diesel fails, since AdBlue settles to the bottom rather than blending — and that's where your fuel is pulled from.
The staff at the nearest petrol station, BP or another forecourt will normally lend a hand pushing your car clear when asked. At home in Kinver? Then your car stays put.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if your engine has already run. The next exit means where to come off when you're on the M5, under 10 miles from Kinver. Mileage matters — a short hop across Kinver is a smaller job than heading under 15 miles to Wolverhampton — so say roughly how far it went.
Kinver: what occurs when our engineers turn up
Wherever the car came to rest, whether outside Brindley Heath Junior School Academy, near Kinver Methodist Church or on your own drive, our van travels to it. The replies determine the work and our quote, so we ask what was put in, roughly how much, and if it's run. You hear that price by phone, before anybody sets off.
Then the tank is cleared and the fuel system cleaned thoroughly. Much more than with petrol, it counts with AdBlue: crystals form, some metals are attacked, and none of that washes out unaided, no matter how long it sits. The fuel filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and your car is tested. Next our engineers fire it up and make sure it runs properly before we go.
With pumps fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs in which your motor has not run take about half an hour after our engineers are there. The insurer usually wants the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and you get both at the end. Payment comes on the day, with no money upfront. It's worth checking your insurance while we travel to you: misfuelling cover is included with many policies.
About Kinver, for a moment
Kinver is a village in southern Staffordshire, situated on the banks of the River Stour. Kinver sits at an elevation of 59 metres, with its riverside location influencing the local landscape. Kinver is characterized by its semi-detached housing stock, which reflects the village's development over the years. Kinver is located near other small settlements, including Dunsley, Stourton, and Compton, and is within commuting distance of Wolverhampton.
Kinver and Staffordshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Being a village, Kinver has the same vans as nearby places — Stourton, Compton — right across DY postcodes and the surrounding area beyond. A postcode starting DY7 6 gets our van to you fastest.
Your car remains where it is. The drain takes place on the spot, whether a driveway, a street by Kinver Sports & Community Association, or a layby on the way to Littlewood's Common. Tricky to pin down, like the back of Kinver Miniature Railway? Close to a border? Asking is better than assuming, and so phone.
The short version for Kinver motorists
First, the cap; after that, the pour. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless, leave the car off then phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel clears it where it sits, anywhere across Staffordshire.