Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Lower Wanborough: Why It Occurs
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? In that case put this page aside for now, leave the ignition and motor off, and call 0333 366 0103. Usually, if your engine has not run, it's emptied and thoroughly flushed where the car sits in Lower Wanborough. The rest of this page explains why it takes place and how to make sure it does not — useful if you are reading before it has happened.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
Plenty of newer diesels on the roads about Lower Wanborough and Hinton Parva carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your motor. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into the exhaust gas to clean it.
Each tank has its own filler. Many of vehicles have a single flap for the two, while some put the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is filled at the petrol pump all the time. The AdBlue side is fuelled far less regularly, usually from a bottle, and normally by somebody who has to stop and think where it goes. That gap is where the mistake lives.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank happens around Lower Wanborough
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a message from your car, and running dry means limp mode — so a hurried top-up, perhaps before work off Chapel Lane, or outside The Plough Inn on the way home after work.
Unfamiliar motors come second, too. Rentals, new vehicles and company motors put their fillers differently, and habit goes for the cap used on the old one.
A spouted bottle meets no resistance at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. So the tip, after started, carries on. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Lower Wanborough or out in Wanborough.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
A couple of seconds is all these take — so run through them before you pour anything, on a driveway in Liddington or a forecourt in Lower Wanborough.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap normally is not. Read it instead of going by where it sits.
- On many motors, size gives it away: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- Check inside the fuel flap: many vehicles have a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- The handbook says which it is when your filler isn't next to your diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- Whoever had it before will know. Check when you collect a hire car or fleet car — from Swindon's car park, perhaps — rather than once the warning comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
When the light comes on, anywhere in Wiltshire, use this routine.
- Stop somewhere level, motor off, with time to spare — not rushing on the side of High Street.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after you find the AdBlue filler and read it. Daft, yes, but it does the trick.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap, and look once more — making sure your diesel filler remained shut the whole time. Only then, start the car.
Spot at stage two or three that it has already gone into the diesel side? Then stop right there. Step five stays out.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Lower Wanborough already?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start your engine. On many diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so do not switch the vehicle on. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where the fuel is sucked from — so don't top up with diesel to dilute it.
The attendants at BP, Shell or any forecourt will normally lend a hand to push the car clear if you ask. At home around Lower Wanborough? So your car stays where it is.
Already started? Stop when it is safe, then turn off. On the M4, under 3 miles from Lower Wanborough, that means the next exit. A short hop across Lower Wanborough is a smaller job than a run towards Oxford, under 25 miles away, so tell us roughly how far it went.
Our arrival around Lower Wanborough, and what occurs next
Anywhere the car came to rest, be it by Wanborough Primary School, beside Wanborough Village Hall or on your own drive, our van comes to it. Both the work and the price rest on three replies — which liquid, which amount, and whether it has run — so our engineers ask. You get that quote on the phone, before anybody sets off.
Draining your tank comes next, then a thorough flush of your system. Unlike petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and eats at certain fuel-system metals, and none of that clears away unaided. That is why it counts more. Once the filter has been flushed — or replaced, where needed — clean diesel goes in, and finally the car is tested. The motor is started next and checked to be sure it runs smoothly, all before our engineers leave.
Unstarted vehicles mostly mean a half-hour job after the moment we arrive. The equipment is fine on a busy filling station, and hushed enough for a driveway late at night. Payment is on the day, not upfront, and you receive the paperwork your insurer wants: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. Before we get there, take a look at your insurance documents; many carry cover for misfuelling.
About Lower Wanborough, for a moment
Lower Wanborough is a suburban area in Wiltshire, situated inland at an elevation of 111 metres, and is located near the nearby places of Wanborough, Upper Wanborough, and Horpit. Lower Wanborough is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock and is home to a population of approximately 1323 residents. Lower Wanborough sits within the wider region of the South West, roughly 23 miles from Oxford and 67 miles from London.
AdBlue drains around Lower Wanborough and across Wiltshire
Throughout SN postcodes, the vans covering Lower Wanborough — a residential suburb — work the nearby places too, Horpit and Upper Wanborough among them. A postcode starting SN4 0 gets our van to you fastest.
Shifting the vehicle isn't necessary. Wherever it sits — beside St Andrew's Church, in a layby en route to Lower Rec., on a drive — that is where it gets drained. Tricky to pin down, like the back of Hinton Parva Village Hall? Close to a border? Asking is better than guessing, so phone.
For Lower Wanborough motorists, the short version
Pour no AdBlue until you've read the cap. Still AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can drain it where it stands, anywhere around Wiltshire: keep the car off and ring 0333 366 0103.