Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Limpley Stoke: Why It Occurs
Keep the motor and ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103 first — the rest can wait when AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Caught before your motor runs, it's generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is in Limpley Stoke. If you're reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it does not.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel car need its own filler?
Many newer diesels around Monkton Combe, like those in Limpley Stoke, carry on two fluids; the motor gets just the diesel. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Different tanks, separate fillers. On a lot of motors the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in your boot or under the bonnet. Topping up your diesel side at the pump happens all the time. The AdBlue side is topped up far less regularly, normally from a bottle, and normally by someone who has to stop and think where it goes. It's in the gap that the mistake lives.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank happens in Limpley Stoke
Rarely is it carelessness: usually three things coincide.
First, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a message from the vehicle, and letting it run dry leads to limp mode — hence a rushed top-up, maybe before work off Woods Hill, perhaps at Hop Pole Inn on the way home that evening.
Then, your hand goes for the cap it knew on the old motor — since a hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers somewhere your last one didn't.
Nothing halts the tip once it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. It takes seconds, be it in Park Corner or right in the centre of Limpley Stoke.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
A few seconds is all the checks take — so check them before you pour anything, on a drive in Conkwell or a forecourt in Limpley Stoke.
- Position can mislead; the cap does not. AdBlue caps are often blue or bear the name "AdBlue" — diesel ones normally don't.
- Look at the size: the smaller neck is, on plenty of vehicles, the AdBlue one.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Many motors say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If your filler isn't by the diesel cap, it is in your boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Ask the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — when you pick up a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside Freshford.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around Wiltshire that is.
- Pull in somewhere level, motor off, with time in hand — not rushing on the side of Middle Stoke.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once you find the AdBlue filler and reading it. Silly, yes, but it works.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when 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 car.
Find at the second or third step that AdBlue went in the diesel tank? That is where you stop. Leave out step five entirely.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Limpley Stoke?
What follows is a short order of things, beginning with no starting the engine. On many diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so do not switch the vehicle on. Diluting it with extra diesel won't work, since AdBlue settles to the base rather than blending — and that is where your fuel is sucked from.
The staff at Essar, Farleigh Service Station or another forecourt will normally help to push your car clear when you ask. Your own driveway around Limpley Stoke is where it should stay.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if the motor has already run. Leave the M4 — under 15 miles out of Limpley Stoke — at the next junction. About how far did it go? Hopping across Limpley Stoke is less a job than a trip of under 5 miles towards Bath, and so say.
Limpley Stoke: what takes place when our technicians turn up
Our van reaches the car wherever it stopped — your own drive, near Limpley Stoke Village Hall, or outside Freshford Church School. Those replies decide the work and the quote, so our technicians ask what got in, about how much, and whether it's run. You get that price on the phone, before anybody sets off.
Next: draining, then a thorough flush of the whole system. Not like petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and attacks certain fuel-system metals, and none of that clears out by itself. That is why it counts more. Filter flushed or, if needed, swapped; fresh diesel in; then a check of the vehicle. Before we leave, our technicians start the car and check that it is running correctly.
With pumps fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs in which the engine has not run need about half an hour after we arrive. Nothing upfront; you settle up that day. Afterwards, the VAT invoice and the report from the engineer are handed to you for your insurer. Before we get there, take a look at your policy; plenty include cover for misfuelling.
About Limpley Stoke
Limpley Stoke is a village in Wiltshire, situated on the banks of the River Avon, with a mix of detached housing and rural scenery. Limpley Stoke sits near the city of Bath, approximately 3 miles away, and is surrounded by nearby places such as Park Corner and Freshford. Limpley Stoke has a population of around 593 residents and is located at an elevation of 96 metres above sea level. Limpley Stoke is also within easy reach of London, being about 95 miles to the west of the capital.
AdBlue drains round Limpley Stoke, and Wiltshire beyond
Being a village, Limpley Stoke has the same vans as surrounding places — Pipehouse, Freshford — all the way across BA postcodes and the wider area around them. Our van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting BA2 7.
Shifting your car isn't needed. Our engineers drain it where it is — a side street near St. Mary the Virgin, Limpley Stoke, a lay-by on the way to Limpley Stoke Wood, a driveway. Tricky to pin down, like the back of Freshford Village Memorial Hall? Close to a county line? Checking is better than assuming, so phone.
Limpley Stoke people: the short version
Before you tip, read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless, leave the vehicle off then phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it waits, anywhere around Wiltshire.