AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Lords Wood: Why It Occurs and How to Stop It
Pause here for a moment when your diesel tank already holds AdBlue in it: ignition off, engine off, then phone 0333 366 0103. A drain and a full flush, carried out just where your vehicle sits around Lords Wood, is usually what it needs when found before the engine runs. Reading before the event? In that case the rest covers why it comes about and what to stop it happening at all.
AdBlue in a diesel motor: two tanks, two fillers
Many modern diesels in Blue Bell Hill, as well as Lords Wood, carry on two liquids; the engine gets only the diesel. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into your exhaust stream to clean it.
There is a filler for every tank. Some cars put the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; a lot more have both together under one flap. Filling the diesel side at the pump goes on all the time. Much less often, the AdBlue side gets filled — mostly from a bottle, by a person thinking about where it goes. That gap is where the slip lives.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank take place in Lords Wood?
It's rarely carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low your car tells you, and if it runs out completely, the car drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Duchess of Kent Drive before work, or in the car park at The Oak on the way home.
Then your car is strange. A hire car, a new car 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.
No part stops the tip once it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. It's a few seconds, whether out in Walderslade or right in the centre of Lords Wood.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Before you tip anything, whether on a driveway in Capstone or a forecourt around Lords Wood, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- Where it sits can mislead; the cap doesn't. AdBlue ones are often blue or bear the name "AdBlue" — diesel ones normally don't.
- On plenty of vehicles, the size tells: AdBlue has the smaller filler neck.
- Check inside the fuel flap: many vehicles carry a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that is where the filler sits if it is not by your diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- The person who drove the car last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park outside Chatham, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
On the day the warning appears — wherever it is in Kent — a routine to use.
- Stop on level, motor off, with time in hand — not hurried on the side of Moonstone Drive.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and it does the trick.
- The two under one flap? Then confirm the lid on your diesel filler is still closed ahead of lifting the bottle.
- Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check a second time. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you have already poured into the diesel side. Stage five is out.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Lords Wood?
The short order of things, starting with not starting the motor. On plenty of diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so do not switch the vehicle on. Diluting it with extra diesel fails, because AdBlue settles to the bottom instead of mixing — and that is where your fuel is sucked from.
Ask the attendants to help roll your car away from the petrol pump if you are at a forecourt — the Shell, the Esso or anywhere else. Your own drive in Lords Wood is the place it stays.
If your motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. On the M2, under a mile from Lords Wood, that means the next junction. Roughly how far did it go? Crossing Lords Wood is smaller a job than a trip of under 25 miles to Southend-on-Sea, and so tell us.
What takes place when our technicians turn up around Lords Wood
Our van comes to your car anywhere it has come to rest — your own drive, beside Lordswood Library, or by Lordswood School. Which liquid got in, the amount, and if it ran: we ask because those replies set the work and quote. Nobody heads out before you've heard our price by phone.
The fuel system is then flushed thoroughly, once your tank is emptied. More than with petrol, it counts with AdBlue: crystals form, certain metals corrode, and none of that clears out unaided, no matter how long it is left. Once your filter has been cleaned — or renewed, where needed — clean diesel is added, and then your vehicle is tested. The engine is started next and checked to be sure it runs correctly, all before our technicians leave.
Unrun cars mostly mean a half-hour visit from arrival. The equipment is safe on a busy filling station, and hushed enough for a residential street late at night. Your insurer will ask for the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and both are yours once the job is done. Payment is on the day, with no deposit. Wrong-fuel cover is included in plenty of insurance policies — and so use the wait to look at yours.
About Lords Wood itself
Lords Wood is a suburban area in Kent, situated inland at an elevation of 132 metres, approximately 30.9 miles from London. Lords Wood lies near several other communities, including Walderslade, Westfield Sole, and Lidsing, and is close to the city of Southend-on-Sea, which is 15.9 miles away. Lords Wood has a population of around 6373 people and is characterised by predominantly semi-detached housing. Lords Wood forms part of the wider residential area surrounding Southend-on-Sea and other nearby towns.
Lords Wood and Kent: AdBlue drains across the area
Throughout ME postcodes, our vans that cover Lords Wood — a residential suburb — work the surrounding locations too, Lidsing and Westfield Sole among them. A postcode starting ME5 8 gets our van to you fastest.
The vehicle doesn't need to move. The drain happens on the spot, be it a drive, a street near St David's Church, or a layby towards Hall Wood. If you're near a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of Lordswood Sports and Social Club, ring and ask instead of assuming.
For Lords Wood motorists, the short version
Always, the cap; then, the pour. Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, anywhere across Kent, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank all the same — and so leave it off and phone 0333 366 0103.