AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Mesty Croft: Why It Happens and How to Prevent It
Pause here for a moment if your diesel tank already has AdBlue in it: ignition off, motor off, then ring 0333 366 0103. Caught before the motor runs, it is usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is in Mesty Croft. Reading before the event? Then the rest covers why it happens and how to prevent it happening at all.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
Diesel goes to your motor — yet plenty of newer diesels seen round Mesty Croft and Balls Hill carry a second liquid as well. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Different tanks, different fillers. Under one flap, next to each other: that's the arrangement on many vehicles. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler sits beneath the bonnet or in the boot instead. At the pump, your diesel side gets filled all the time. Someone who has to stop and think where it goes usually fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less regularly. Mistakes happen in that gap between them.
AdBlue in the diesel tank in Mesty Croft: how it occurs
Seldom is it carelessness: usually three things line up.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a message from your car, and running dry leads to limp mode — so a hurried top-up, maybe before work off Hydes Road, or outside The Croft on the way home after work.
The old car's cap is where the hand goes — but a rental car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers elsewhere. That is the second thing: a strange car.
A spout-topped bottle meets no obstacle at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. So the tip, after started, carries on. Vicarage or the heart of Mesty Croft: it is the same few seconds either way.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
Look at these before pouring, on a forecourt around Mesty Croft or a driveway out in The Woods. A few seconds, no more.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap usually is not. Read it instead of going by position.
- On many motors, the size tells: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- Lift the filler flap and look for a label — many vehicles mark which belongs in which filler just there.
- The handbook says where it is if your filler isn't next to your diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- Check with 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 Bescot Stadium.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
When the light comes on, anywhere around West Midlands, follow this routine.
- Turn off once parked — flat ground, engine stopped, and never rushed by Hamstead Terrace on the verge.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and it works.
- The two behind a single flap? So confirm the cap on the diesel side stays closed ahead of raising the bottle.
- Stop once that tank is topped up or the bottle is empty; before that, tip slowly using the own spout.
- Shut the cap, then look once more — making sure your diesel cap stayed shut throughout. After that, start the car.
Stop there if you find, at stage two or three, that you've already poured into the diesel side. Step five stays off limits.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Mesty Croft?
What follows is a short order of things, beginning with not starting the engine. On plenty of diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so do not switch the vehicle on. Don't top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where the fuel is sucked from.
If you are at a forecourt, whether it's the Esso or the Morrisons, ask the staff to help roll the car away from the pump. Your own driveway in Mesty Croft is the place it should stay.
Where your motor has been run by now, pull over somewhere safe then switch the vehicle off. The next exit means the place to leave if you are on the M6, under 3 miles from Mesty Croft. A short hop across Mesty Croft is a smaller job than a run towards Wolverhampton, under 10 miles away, so tell us roughly how far it went.
When our technicians arrive around Mesty Croft, what happens?
Anywhere your car has stopped, whether by Mesty Croft Primary, near St Luke or at home, the van travels to it. Both the work and our quote depend on three replies — what fluid, what quantity, and whether it has run — so our engineers ask. During the call itself, you hear the quote — before anything else.
Draining that tank comes next, then a thorough flush of the system. Much more than with petrol, it counts with AdBlue: crystals form, certain metals corrode, and nothing clears out on its own, no matter how long it is left. The filter cleaned or, where it must be, swapped; fresh diesel in; and then a test of your vehicle. We do not leave until it has been started and is running correctly.
If your engine hasn't run, most jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are safe on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house after dark. Paying happens on the day, not upfront, and you receive the paperwork an insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. It's worth checking your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with many policies.
About Mesty Croft and where it is
Mesty Croft is a suburban area situated on the outskirts of Wolverhampton, near the shores of a lake in the West Midlands. Mesty Croft sits at an elevation of 133 metres, with semi-detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation. Mesty Croft is located close to other nearby places such as Vicarage, Oakeswell End, and Wednesbury, and is approximately 5.6 miles from Wolverhampton city centre. Mesty Croft has a population of around 7356 residents.
Mesty Croft and West Midlands: AdBlue drains across the area
Over WS postcodes, our vans covering Mesty Croft — a residential suburb — work the nearby locations too, Wednesbury and Oakeswell End included. Our van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting WS10 0.
There's no need to shift the vehicle. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street near Madina Education Trust, a lay-by on the way to Black Country Millennium Forest, a driveway. Tricky to explain, like the back of War Memorial? Close to a border? Asking is better than guessing, and so phone.
For Mesty Croft motorists, the short version
Tip nothing till you have read the cap. AdBlue in the diesel tank after all? Keep it off and phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, across West Midlands.