AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Market Bosworth: Why It Happens and How to Stop It
Leave the engine and ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103 first — the rest can wait if AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Caught before your motor runs, it's normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is in Market Bosworth. Reading in advance? In that case the rest explains why it comes about and how to prevent it ever happening.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel vehicle need its own filler?
No single fluid but two: that is how plenty of newer diesels near Market Bosworth and Osbaston carry, with diesel feeding your motor. The exhaust, not the motor, is where AdBlue goes: dosed into the gas to fresh it, from a separate tank.
Each tank has one filler of its own. On a lot of cars 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 petrol pump, your diesel side gets filled constantly. Much less frequently, the AdBlue side gets filled — mostly from a bottle, by a person working out where it goes. Mistakes happen in the gap between them.
Market Bosworth: how AdBlue in your diesel tank happens
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and if it runs out altogether, the car goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Park Street before work, or in the car park outside Ye Olde Red Lion Hotel on the way home.
The old car's cap is where your hand reaches — but a rental car, a new car or a company car keeps the fillers elsewhere. That is the second thing: a strange car.
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. Carlton or the heart of Market Bosworth: it is the same few seconds in both.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
A few seconds is all the checks take — so check them before you pour anything, on a driveway in Bufton or a forecourt around Market Bosworth.
- Position can mislead; the cap doesn't. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or bear the word "AdBlue" — diesel ones normally don't.
- The size. On many cars the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Many cars say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook says which it lives when your filler isn't next to the diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- The person who drove the vehicle last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park outside Hinckley, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
When the light comes on, wherever across Leicestershire, follow this routine.
- Pull in somewhere level, engine off, with time to spare — not rushing on the side of Back Lane.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once finding the AdBlue filler and reading it. Daft, perhaps, 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.
- Slowly does it, through the bottle's own spout, till it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Before starting the car, shut the cap and check a second time that your diesel cap never came off.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you've already poured into the diesel side. Step five stays off limits.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, around Market Bosworth?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start your motor. Leave your ignition off too, since on many diesels it by itself runs the fuel pump. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is sucked from — so do not top up with diesel to thin it.
At a forecourt — Texaco, BP or any other — the attendants will normally help push the vehicle clear, if you ask. If you're on your own driveway around Market Bosworth, leave the car where it is.
Where your engine has run by now, pull over safely and switch it off. Come off the M1 — under 10 miles out of Market Bosworth — at the next junction. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Leicester, under 15 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Market Bosworth.
Our arrival in Market Bosworth, and what occurs next
Anywhere the vehicle came to rest, be it by St Peter's Church of England Primary School (Market Bosworth), beside Thomas Hooker (1586-1647) or at home, our van comes to it. We ask what went in, roughly how much, and if it has run, since the answers determine the work and our price. The price comes over the phone, before any van leaves.
Emptying the tank comes next, then a full flush of the fuel system. More than with petrol, it counts here: crystals build up, some metals are attacked, and none of that clears away on its own, no matter how long it sits. Your filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and your car is tested. After that our engineers start it and check it runs properly before we leave.
Most jobs are done in roughly half an hour after our engineers arrive, as long as your engine hasn't run — and the pumps our engineers use are fine on a live forecourt and quiet at night outside a house. Nothing in advance; you settle up on the day. Afterwards, a VAT invoice and the report from the engineer are handed to you for your insurer. While we travel, have a look at your insurance documents; plenty include cover for misfuelling.
About Market Bosworth and where it is
Market Bosworth is a small town in the inland county of Leicestershire, situated near the cities of Leicester and Coventry. Market Bosworth sits at an elevation of 132 metres, surrounded by rolling countryside and nearby villages such as Carlton and Cadeby. Market Bosworth has a population of around 2104 people, predominantly living in detached housing. Market Bosworth is located 11.3 miles from Leicester and 94.3 miles from London.
AdBlue drains across Leicestershire, Market Bosworth included
Throughout CV postcodes, our vans covering Market Bosworth — a town — work the surrounding locations too, Far Coton and Cadeby included. The van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting CV13 0.
Shifting your car is not needed. We drain it where it is — a side street near St Peter's, a lay-by on the way to Market Bosworth Country Park, a drive. Assuming won't help behind Market Bosworth Library, close to a border, or somewhere hard to pin down; phone and ask.
For Market Bosworth drivers, the short version
First, the cap; after that, the pour. Still AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can drain it where it is, wherever across Leicestershire: switch the vehicle off then ring 0333 366 0103.