AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Ladymoor: How It Happens 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 phone 0333 366 0103. Normally, if the motor hasn't turned, it's emptied and fully flushed where your car is in Ladymoor. Not happened yet? Below, the rest of the page explains the why it takes place and the ways to avoid it for good.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle: two tanks, two fillers
No single fluid but two: that is how plenty of modern diesels around Ladymoor and Deepfields run, with diesel feeding your motor. The exhaust, not the motor, is where AdBlue ends up: sprayed into the gas to clean them, from a separate tank.
Each tank has its own filler. Under one flap, next to each other: that is the arrangement on a lot of cars. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler is beneath the bonnet or in the boot instead. Topping up your diesel side at the petrol pump goes on all the time. Seldom filled, AdBlue usually comes from a bottle, poured by someone who has to stop and think what cap to use. The mistake lives in that gap.
Ladymoor: how AdBlue in your diesel tank happens
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and if it runs out altogether, the vehicle goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Highfields Road before work, or in the car park outside Elizabeth Arms on the way home.
Next, the hand goes for the cap it knew on the old car — since a hire car, a new motor or a company car places the fillers where your last one did not.
No part halts the tip after it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. It takes a few seconds, be it out in Highfields or right in the centre of Ladymoor.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Whether a Ladymoor forecourt or a driveway over in Millfields, take a couple of seconds on these before anything goes in.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is often blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap usually is not. Read it instead of going by where it sits.
- On plenty of motors, size tells: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Many vehicles say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If the filler isn't by the diesel cap, it is in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- The person who drove it last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park outside Coseley, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
On the day the warning comes on — wherever it is in West Midlands — a routine to follow.
- Turn off once parked — flat ground, motor stopped, and not rushed by Broad Lanes on the verge.
- Silly as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew the cap does the trick — after you've found the filler and read the cap.
- Both behind a single flap? Then confirm the cap on your diesel side stays shut before lifting the bottle.
- Slowly does it, through the bottle's own spout, until it's full or the bottle runs out.
- Before starting your car, shut the cap and check again that the diesel cap was never came off.
Discover at the second or third stage that AdBlue went in the diesel filler? That is where you stop. Step five stays out.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Ladymoor?
Brief list, then. Top of that: your engine remains unstarted. Don't switch the ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Filling up with diesel will not thin it: instead, AdBlue sinks to the base of that tank, just where the fuel is taken from.
The attendants at Shell, Morrisons or any forecourt will normally lend a hand to push the vehicle clear when asked. At home around Ladymoor? So your car stays where it is.
If your engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. Ladymoor sits under 5 miles from the M6; on it, use the next exit. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Wolverhampton, under 3 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Ladymoor.
Ladymoor: what takes place when we turn up
The van reaches the vehicle anywhere it has come to rest — your own driveway, beside Darkhouse Baptist Church, or by Loxdale Primary School. We ask what went in, about how much, and if it has run, because those answers settle this work and the quote. During the call itself, you are told our price — ahead of anything else.
Then that tank is drained and the system purged thoroughly. 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. The fuel filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the car is tested. Your engine is fired up next and checked to confirm it runs properly, all before our technicians leave.
Most jobs are finished in about half an hour after our technicians get there, provided your engine hasn't run — and the pumps our technicians use are safe on a live forecourt yet quiet at night outside a house. Your insurer usually wants the engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and both are yours once the job is done. Payment is on the day, with no deposit. It's worth looking at your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover comes with many policies.
About Ladymoor
Ladymoor is a suburban area situated near the lakeside in the West Midlands, with an elevation of around 142 metres. Ladymoor lies approximately 2.9 miles from Wolverhampton and is part of the larger urban area surrounding the city. Ladymoor is characterized by its semi-detached housing and is close to nearby places such as Highfields, Daisy Bank, and Spring Vale. Ladymoor is located about 110.3 miles northwest of London.
AdBlue drains across West Midlands, Ladymoor included
Throughout WV postcodes, our teams that cover Ladymoor — a residential suburb — work the nearby spots too, Spring Vale and Daisy Bank included. Give a postcode beginning WV14 0, and our van arrives quickest.
The car stays put. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to Black Country Millennium Forest, a side street near Beth's Arch: our technicians drain it where it sits. Assuming won't help behind Saint John Fisher Roman Catholic Church, on a boundary, or anywhere awkward to pin down; ring and check.
The short version for Ladymoor people
Tip no AdBlue till you've read the cap. AdBlue in your diesel tank after all? Leave the vehicle switched off and call 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, across West Midlands.