Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Leyton Marshes: Why It Occurs
Keep the motor and ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103 now — reading can wait if AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. In Leyton Marshes, finding it before your motor runs usually means draining and a thorough flush on the spot. If you're reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it happens and how to make sure it doesn't.
AdBlue in a diesel car: two tanks, two fillers
No single fluid but two: that is what many newer diesels near Leyton Marshes and Lower Clapton run, with diesel for your engine. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into the exhaust gas to clean it.
There's a filler for each tank. Other vehicles put the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; plenty of others place both side by side under one flap. Topping up your diesel side at the petrol pump goes on constantly. Seldom filled, AdBlue usually goes in from a bottle, poured by someone who has to stop and think which cap it needs. The mistake lives in that gap.
Leyton Marshes: how AdBlue in your diesel tank happens
It is rarely carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
On a drive off Argall Avenue before work, or in the car park outside Queer Brewing Project heading home: that is where the rushed top-up happens. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue gets low the car warns you, and once it is gone, limp mode kicks in.
Then your car is strange. A hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and the hand reaches for the cap it would have 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 pour once it has started. Lea Bridge or the heart of Leyton Marshes: it takes the same few seconds in both.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Be it a Leyton Marshes forecourt or a driveway out in Clapton Park, spend a few seconds over these before any is poured in.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap usually is not. Read it rather than going by where it sits.
- On many motors, size tells: AdBlue has the smaller filler neck.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Many cars say there which fuel goes where.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that is where your filler is if it is not by your diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- The previous driver will know. Check as you collect a hire car or company car — at Clapton's car park, perhaps — not when the light appears.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
When the light comes on, anywhere around Greater London, follow this routine.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with your motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Rigg Approach.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once you find the AdBlue filler and reading it. Silly, perhaps, yet it does the trick.
- The diesel cap remains on. When both sit under a flap, confirm it is shut before the bottle comes up.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Shut the cap, then look once more — confirm your diesel cap remained shut throughout. After that, start your car.
Find at step two or three that it's already gone into your diesel side? So stop just there. Don't go on to step five.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Leyton Marshes already?
Do not start the motor: that's where the short order of things begins. Leave the ignition off as well, since on plenty of diesels it by itself starts the fuel pump. Don't top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is pulled from.
At a forecourt — Esso, Shell or any other — the staff will usually help push the vehicle away, when you ask. On your own drive around Leyton Marshes? Then the vehicle stays put.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if the engine has already run. On the M11, under 5 miles from Leyton Marshes, that means the next exit. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards London, under 5 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Leyton Marshes.
What happens when we turn up in Leyton Marshes
We come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside Harrington Hill Primary School, close to A. V. Roe or on your own drive. Our technicians ask what was put in, about how much, and whether it has run, because the replies decide the work and our price. You get that quote by phone, before anyone heads out.
Draining the tank comes next, then a thorough flush of the system. More than with petrol, it matters here: crystals form, some metals are attacked, and nothing clears out unaided, no matter how long it is left. Testing comes last: before that, clean diesel is added, and your filter is flushed or changed if necessary. After that we fire it up and confirm it runs smoothly before we leave.
Unstarted cars mostly mean a half-hour visit from the moment we arrive. The kit is safe on a live filling station, and quiet enough for a residential street late at night. No money upfront; you settle up that day. At the end, the VAT invoice and the report from the engineer go to you for your insurer. Misfuelling cover is included in plenty of insurance policies — so use the wait to check yours.
About Leyton Marshes, briefly
Leyton Marshes is a suburban area in the London Borough of Waltham Forest, situated on the banks of the River Lea. Leyton Marshes has a low elevation of around 4 metres, and its riverside setting has influenced the local environment. Leyton Marshes is located near other residential areas, including Lea Bridge and Upper Clapton, and is home to a population of approximately 4984 people, predominantly living in flats.
AdBlue drains across Greater London, Leyton Marshes included
Upper Clapton and Craven Walk are among the towns near Leyton Marshes, a residential suburb, that the same teams cover, over E postcodes. Our van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting E10 7.
No need to shift the vehicle. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Walthamstow Marsh, a side street near Krzysztof L.: our engineers drain it where it stands. If you are close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of Lee Valley Ice Centre, ring and ask rather than assuming.
The short version for Leyton Marshes people
Read the cap before you tip. Even so AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can drain it where it stands, wherever around Greater London: keep the vehicle off and phone 0333 366 0103.