AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Malinslee: How It Happens and How to Stop It
Keep the engine and ignition off and call 0333 366 0103 first — reading can wait if AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Usually, if your motor has not turned, it's drained and thoroughly purged where your car is around Malinslee. The rest of this page explains why it takes place and how to ensure it does not — useful if you're reading ahead of time.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel vehicle need its own filler?
Diesel goes to the engine — yet plenty of modern diesels driven around Malinslee and The Rock hold a second liquid too. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into your exhaust gas to clean it.
Every tank comes with a filler of its own. Some vehicles put the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; a lot more have both together under one flap. The diesel side is fuelled at the pump all the time. Rarely topped up, AdBlue usually comes out of a bottle, poured by a driver who must stop and think what filler to use. It's in that gap that the slip lives.
AdBlue in the diesel tank around Malinslee: how it occurs
Rarely is it carelessness: usually three things line up.
First, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a warning from your car, and running out means limp mode — so a hurried top-up, perhaps before work off Coachwell Close, or outside Severn Gorge on the way home that evening.
Unfamiliar cars are next, too. Rentals, new vehicles and company cars put their fillers differently, and habit goes for the cap it used on the old one.
A spout-topped bottle finds no obstacle at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. And so the tip, after begun, keeps on. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Malinslee or out in Telford.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
A couple of seconds is all these take — so run through them before you pour anything, on a driveway in Old Park or a forecourt in Malinslee.
- Colour and marking: an AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually does not. Trust the cap, not its position.
- On plenty of motors, the size gives it away: AdBlue has the smaller filler neck.
- Look inside your fuel flap: many vehicles carry a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If the filler is not by your diesel cap, it's in your boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Ask the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — if you collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside Telford Central.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
The day the light goes on, anywhere across Shropshire, follow this routine.
- Park and switch off. Not on a slope, not with the engine running, and not in a rush on the side of Brunel Road.
- Find the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and speak the word "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew it. It sounds silly. It works.
- The diesel cap remains on. When the two share a flap, make sure it is 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 once more, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Never carry on to stage five.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, around Malinslee?
Brief list, then. Top of it: the engine stays off. The fuel pump starts on many diesels as soon as your ignition goes on — and so keep it off. Don't top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is sucked from.
Ask the attendants to help roll the car clear of the petrol pump if you're at a forecourt — the Asda, the Sainsbury's or somewhere else. If you're on your own driveway around Malinslee, leave the car where it sits.
Where your motor has run already, stop somewhere safe then switch the vehicle off. Leave the M54 — under a mile out of Malinslee — at the first junction. Distance matters — a short hop across Malinslee makes a smaller job than heading under 25 miles towards Wolverhampton — so tell us about how far it went.
What occurs when our technicians get there in Malinslee
Our van reaches the vehicle anywhere it has come to rest — your own drive, near St Leonard, or outside Old Park Primary School. Those replies decide this work and the price, and so our engineers ask what got in, about how much, and if it's run. On the call itself, you hear our price — ahead of anything else.
Then that tank is emptied and your system flushed thoroughly. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't wash out on its own. After your filter is flushed — or renewed, where needed — fresh diesel is added, and then the vehicle is tested. The engine is started next and checked to confirm it runs correctly, all before our technicians head off.
If your motor has not run, most jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night. The insurer usually wants an engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and you get both once this job is done. Payment is on the day, with no deposit. While we travel, take a look at your policy; plenty carry cover for misfuelling.
About Malinslee
Malinslee is a suburban area in Shropshire, situated approximately 188 metres above sea level, and is located near the towns of Telford and Dawley Bank. Malinslee is characterized by its predominantly semi-detached housing stock, which reflects the residential development of the area. Malinslee sits inland, about 15 miles from Wolverhampton and some 127.5 miles northwest of London.
AdBlue drains about Malinslee, and Shropshire beyond
Throughout TF postcodes, the teams covering Malinslee — a residential suburb — work the nearby spots too, Dawley Bank and Town Centre included. The van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting TF3 2.
The vehicle stays put. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Chelsea Gardens, a side street near Cineworld: we drain it where it stands. Awkward to pin down, like the back of House of Fraser? By a county line? Checking is better than guessing, so ring.
The short version for Malinslee drivers
Pour no AdBlue till you've read the cap. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, anywhere around Shropshire, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank regardless — so leave it off and phone 0333 366 0103.