AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Lower Tuffley: How It Occurs and How to Prevent It
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case set this page aside a moment, leave your ignition and engine off, then ring 0333 366 0103. Around Lower Tuffley, catching it before your engine runs usually leaves draining and a full flush on the spot. Reading before the event? In that case what follows covers why it happens and what to stop it happening at all.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel vehicle need its own filler?
Diesel feeds your motor — but many newer diesels driven around Lower Tuffley and Quedgeley carry another fluid as well. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
There's a filler on each tank. On a lot of motors the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in the boot or under the bonnet. At the pump, the diesel side is topped up all the time. A driver who has to stop and think where it goes normally fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less regularly. That gap is where the error lives.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank occurs around Lower Tuffley
Seldom is it carelessness: usually three things coincide.
On a driveway off Notgrove Close before work, or in the car park at The Pike and Musket on the way home: that's where the rushed top-up takes place. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue gets low the car warns you, and once it's gone, limp mode follows.
New-to-you cars are next, as well. Hire cars, new vehicles and company vehicles put their fillers differently, and habit goes for the cap used on the old one.
A spout-topped bottle finds no obstacle at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. So the pour, after started, keeps on. Podsmead or the heart of Lower Tuffley: it takes the same few seconds either way.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Whether a Lower Tuffley forecourt or a driveway over in Linden, spend a few seconds on these before any is poured in.
- Read the cap rather than going by position: AdBlue ones are often blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones normally are not.
- Many vehicles give AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- Lift the flap and look for a label — many vehicles mark what goes in each inlet right there.
- Cannot see it next to the diesel filler? In that case check beneath the bonnet or inside your boot — the owner's manual will say where.
- Check with the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — when you collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park at Gloucester.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
On the day the light comes on — wherever it is across Gloucestershire — a simple routine to use.
- Switch off once parked — flat ground, engine stopped, and not in a rush by Meredith Way on the verge.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after finding the AdBlue filler and read it. Daft, yes, yet it does the trick.
- The diesel cap stays on. When the two sit under a flap, confirm it is closed before the bottle comes up.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check a second time. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
Find at step two or three that it has already gone into your diesel side? Then stop right there. Stage five stays out.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Lower Tuffley?
Brief order, then. Top of it: the motor stays off. Leave your ignition off as well, since on plenty of diesels switching it on alone starts your fuel pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is pulled from — so don't top up with diesel to thin it.
If you're at a forecourt, whether it's the Esso or the Shell, ask the staff to help roll the vehicle away from the petrol pump. If you are on your own drive in Lower Tuffley, leave the vehicle where it stands.
Where the engine has been run already, pull over safely and switch it off. Lower Tuffley sits under 3 miles from the M5; there, use the next exit. A short hop across Lower Tuffley is a smaller job than a run towards Gloucester, under 3 miles away, so tell us roughly how far it went.
Our arrival in Lower Tuffley, and what occurs next
Wherever your car came to rest, be it outside Grange Primary Academy, beside Saint George or at home, the van travels to it. The answers decide this work and the price, and so our engineers ask what got in, roughly how much, and if it has run. On the call itself, you hear our price — before dispatch.
The fuel system is then purged thoroughly, after your tank is cleared. More than with petrol, it matters here: the crystals build up, some metals corrode, and none of it clears out on its own, however long it sits. Your filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the vehicle is tested. Before we leave, our engineers fire it up and check that it is running correctly.
Using pumps fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs in which the engine has not run take roughly half an hour once our technicians are there. Nothing in advance; you settle up that day. At the end, a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer go to you for your insurer. It is worth checking your policy while we travel to you: misfuelling cover is included with many policies.
About Lower Tuffley
Lower Tuffley is a suburban area situated on the outskirts of Gloucester, near the banks of the River Severn. Lower Tuffley has a mix of housing types, but semi-detached homes are particularly prevalent in the area. Lower Tuffley is located close to nearby places such as Podsmead, Tuffley, and Whaddon, and its residents are just a short distance from the city centre. Lower Tuffley sits at a relatively low elevation of 22 metres above sea level.
AdBlue drains across Gloucestershire, Lower Tuffley included
Tuffley and Whaddon are among the towns near Lower Tuffley, a residential suburb, that the same vans cover, over GL postcodes. A postcode starting GL4 0 gets our van to you fastest.
The car does not need to shift. Our engineers drain it where it is — a side street close to Tuffley Library, a lay-by on the way to Randwick Park, a driveway. If you are near a border, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of Tuffley Community Centre, ring and ask rather than guessing.
Lower Tuffley people: the short version
Before you tip, read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank all the same, leave the vehicle off then ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it waits, anywhere across Gloucestershire.