Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Little Hoddington: Why It Happens
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? Then set this page aside a moment, leave the ignition and engine off, and ring 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a thorough flush, done just where your vehicle sits in Little Hoddington, is normally all it takes if caught before the motor runs. Reading in advance? Then what follows explains how it happens and how to stop it ever happening.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel vehicle
No single liquid but two: that's what many modern diesels around Little Hoddington and Weston Patrick carry, with diesel for your engine. Its own tank keeps it, and from there it goes to the exhaust, where spraying cleans the gas.
Every tank has one filler of its own. Some vehicles keep the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; a lot of others have both together under one flap. Diesel gets filled at every forecourt call-out, again and again. Someone who has to stop and think where it goes usually fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less commonly. That gap is where the mistake lives.
AdBlue in the diesel tank around Little Hoddington: how it occurs
Carelessness seldom causes it. What does is three things lining up at once.
Hurry comes from the warning. The vehicle tells you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank puts the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up gets done quickly, before work on a driveway off Little Hoddington Close, or on the way home in the car park at Hoddington Arms.
The old car's filler is where your hand goes — yet a rental car, a new car or a company car keeps the fillers elsewhere. That's a second factor: a new motor.
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 once it has started. Whether it happens in Upton Grey or the middle of Little Hoddington, it is the same few seconds.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Whether a Little Hoddington forecourt or a drive over in Tunworth, spend a couple of seconds on these before anything is poured in.
- Position misleads; the cap does not. AdBlue ones are often blue or carry the word "AdBlue" — diesel caps normally don't.
- The size. On plenty of cars the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Plenty of motors say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If the filler isn't by your diesel cap, it's in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Check with the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — if you pick up a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside Hook.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around Hampshire that is.
- Not in a rush on the side of Little Hoddington, not on a slope, not with your engine running: park then switch off properly.
- Daft as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" aloud while you unscrew the cap works — after you have found the filler and read the cap.
- The diesel cap stays on. Where both share a flap, make sure it's shut before the bottle comes up.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty.
- Only then, start the vehicle: close the cap, check a second time, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
Find at stage two or three that it's already gone into the diesel side? So stop just there. Never go on to stage five.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Little Hoddington?
Do not start your engine: that is how the short order of things starts. The fuel pump starts on many diesels the moment the ignition goes on — so leave it off. Topping up with diesel will not dilute it: instead, AdBlue drops to the base of the tank, just where fuel is taken from.
Ask the staff to help push your car away from the petrol pump if you are on a forecourt — the Texaco, the Esso or anywhere else. Leave it where it is if you are on your own driveway in Little Hoddington.
Already started? Stop once it is safe, then switch off. On the M3, under 3 miles from Little Hoddington, that means the next junction. About how far did it go? Hopping across Little Hoddington is smaller work than a run of under 25 miles towards Winchester, so tell us.
What takes place when our technicians arrive in Little Hoddington
By Long Sutton Church of England Primary School, near Upton Grey Village Hall or on your own driveway: wherever your car has stopped, our technicians come to it. Our technicians ask what went in, about how much, and if it has run, because the answers settle the work and our price. On the phone call itself, you are told the price — ahead of anything else.
Then your tank is cleared and the fuel system purged thoroughly. Unlike petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and attacks some fuel-system metals, and neither clears out by itself. That is why it counts more. After your filter is cleaned — or renewed, if required — clean diesel is added, and finally the car is tested. Your engine is started next and tested to confirm it runs correctly, all before our engineers go.
Most jobs are finished in about half an hour once we get there, as long as your engine has not run — and the pumps we use are safe on a live forecourt yet quiet after dark outside a house. Nothing upfront; you settle up on the day. At the end, a VAT invoice and the report from the engineer go to you for the insurer. It's worth checking your insurance while we travel to you: misfuelling cover is included with plenty of policies.
About Little Hoddington and where it is
Little Hoddington is a small village in Hampshire, situated in the South East of England, with a population of around 516 people. Little Hoddington sits at an elevation of 92 metres, surrounded by rolling countryside and nearby villages such as Upton Grey and Bidden. Little Hoddington is characterised by its predominantly detached housing stock, reflecting its rural setting. Little Hoddington is located approximately 17.9 miles from Winchester and 42.1 miles from London.
Little Hoddington and Hampshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Little Hoddington is a rural village, and our teams that cover it also work the towns near it, Bidden and Weston Corbett among them, across the RG postcode area. Fastest of all: quote a RG25 2 postcode for our van.
No need to move the car. Anywhere it sits — beside St Mary’s Church, in a layby en route to Embers Copse, at home — that is where it is cleared. If you are close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Upton Grey House, ring and ask instead of assuming.
In short, for Little Hoddington people
Before you pour, read the cap. Still AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can drain it where it stands, anywhere across Hampshire: keep it off and ring 0333 366 0103.