Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Little London: Why It Happens
Keep the engine and ignition off and call 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait if AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. A drain plus a full flush, done right where your vehicle sits in Little London, is usually what it needs if found before the motor runs. The remainder of this page explains why it takes place and how to ensure it does not — useful if you are reading ahead of time.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel motor need its own filler?
No single liquid but two: that is what many modern diesels near Little London and Willenhall run, with diesel feeding your engine. The exhaust, not the engine, is where AdBlue ends up: sprayed into the fumes to fresh them, from its own tank.
Every tank has a filler of its own. Many of motors share a single flap for both, whereas some put the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. Diesel gets filled on every forecourt visit, again and again. Rarely filled, AdBlue normally goes in from a bottle, tipped by someone who must stop and think which cap to use. It is in the gap that the mistake lives.
Little London: how AdBlue in the diesel tank happens
It is hardly ever carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
First, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a warning from the vehicle, and letting it run out means limp mode — so a hurried top-up, perhaps before work off Clothier Street, or at Worker's Rest on the way home after work.
Next, the hand reaches for the cap it knew on the old car — because a rental car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't.
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. Wellington Place or the middle of Little London: it is the same few seconds in both.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Be it a Little London forecourt or a drive over in Chapel Green, take a few seconds over these before anything is poured in.
- Colour and marking: an AdBlue cap is frequently blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually does not. Go by the cap, not its position.
- Check the size: the smaller neck is, on many motors, the AdBlue one.
- Open the flap and check for a label — many vehicles show which belongs in which filler right there.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that is where the filler sits if it's not by your diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- The previous driver will know. Check when you pick up a hire car or fleet car — from Willenhall's car park, perhaps — not once the light appears.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
When the light comes on, anywhere across West Midlands, use this routine.
- Turn off once parked — level ground, motor stopped, and not in a rush by Wednesfield Road at the roadside.
- Silly as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap does the trick — once you have located your filler and read it.
- The diesel cap remains on. Where both sit under a flap, confirm it is shut before the bottle comes up.
- Stop when your tank is topped up or the bottle is empty; before that, pour gently using the own spout.
- Shut the cap, and check once more — making sure your diesel filler remained closed throughout. After that, start your car.
Find at step two or three that it's already gone into your diesel side? Then stop just there. Stage five stays off limits.
Little London: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start the motor. The fuel pump runs on plenty of diesels the moment your ignition is switched on — and so keep it off. Filling up with diesel will not weaken it: instead, AdBlue sinks to the base of that tank, right where fuel is drawn from.
At a forecourt — the nearest petrol station, Morrisons or any other — the staff will normally help roll your car away, if you ask. On your own drive around Little London? So your car stays put.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if the engine has already run. Come off the M6 — under 3 miles out of Little London — at the first exit. About how far did it go? Hopping across Little London is smaller work than a run of under 5 miles towards Wolverhampton, and so say.
Little London: what happens when our technicians turn up
We come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside Fibbersley Park Academy, near Willenhall War Memorial or on your own drive. Which fluid was put in, the quantity, and whether it ran: we ask because those replies decide both work and quote. You hear that quote by phone, before anyone sets off.
Then the tank is cleared and the system rinsed thoroughly. More than with petrol, it counts here: crystals form, certain metals are attacked, and none of that washes out on its own, no matter how long it sits. The fuel filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the vehicle is tested. Next our technicians fire it up and confirm it runs properly before we go.
Unrun vehicles usually need a half-hour job after the moment we arrive. The equipment is safe on a live forecourt, and hushed enough for a driveway after dark. Your insurer usually wants the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and you get both at the end. Payment is on the day, with no money upfront. It's worth checking your policy while we travel to you: misfuelling cover comes with plenty of policies.
About Little London and where it is
Little London is a suburban area located near Wolverhampton in the West Midlands, sitting at an elevation of around 136 metres. Little London is characterized by its predominantly semi-detached housing stock and is situated close to nearby places such as Wellington Place and Spring Bank. Little London is a relatively small community, with a population of approximately 5221 residents, and is about 3 miles from the centre of Wolverhampton.
Little London and West Midlands: AdBlue drains across the area
As a residential suburb, Little London has the same vans as surrounding places — Spring Bank, The Manor — right through WV postcodes and the wider area beyond. Give a postcode beginning WV13 1, and the van arrives quickest.
Your car does not need to move. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street close to The Salvation Army - Willenhall, a lay-by on the way to Black Country Millennium Forest, a drive. Assuming won't help at the back of St Anne, close to a boundary, or anywhere hard to describe; ring and ask.
In short, for Little London drivers
Pour nothing till you've read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank all the same, leave it off then call 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel clears it where it stands, anywhere across West Midlands.