Middle Tysoe: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
Leave your motor and ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103 now — reading can wait when AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. A drain and a full flush, done right where your vehicle stands around Middle Tysoe, is usually all it takes when found before your motor runs. Reading before the event? In that case what follows explains why it happens and how to stop it happening at all.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle: two tanks, two fillers
Diesel goes to the motor — but plenty of modern diesels driven about Middle Tysoe and Sun Rising hold a second liquid as well. AdBlue's own tank holds it, and from there it is sent to your exhaust, and there spraying treats the gas.
There is a filler for each tank. Many of vehicles share a single flap for both, whereas others move the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. Diesel gets filled on each filling station call-out, again and again. A driver who has to stop and work out where it goes usually fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less often. Mistakes happen in the gap between the two.
Middle Tysoe: how AdBlue in your diesel tank occurs
Carelessness seldom causes it. What does is three things coming up at once.
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, perhaps before work off Back Lane, perhaps at The Peacock on the way home after work.
Next, your hand goes for the cap it knew on the old car — since a hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't.
Nothing stops the tip after it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Whether it happens in Upper Tysoe or the middle of Middle Tysoe, it is the same few seconds.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Before you tip anything, whether on a driveway in Oxhill or a forecourt in Middle Tysoe, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- Read the cap rather than going by where it sits: AdBlue caps are regularly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones normally are not.
- Look at the size: the smaller filler neck is, on plenty of motors, the AdBlue one.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Many cars say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook shows which it is if the filler isn't next to the diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- The person who drove it last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park at Banbury, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
When the light goes on, wherever in Warwickshire, 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 Sandpits Road.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it does the trick.
- The diesel cap stays on. When the two sit under a flap, make sure it is closed before the bottle comes up.
- Stop once that tank is topped up or the bottle runs dry; until then, tip slowly through its own spout.
- Close the cap and check a second time. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
Stop there if you find, at stage two or three, that you have already poured into your diesel side. Never go on to stage five.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, around Middle Tysoe?
Brief list, then. First: your motor stays off. Don't switch the ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where the fuel is drawn from — so don't top up with diesel to thin it.
Ask the attendants to help push the car clear of the petrol pump if you're at a forecourt — the The Forge Garage, the Murco or anywhere else. At home in Middle Tysoe? Then the car remains where it is.
Where your motor has been run already, stop somewhere safe then turn the car off. Middle Tysoe lies under 10 miles from the M40; there, take the next exit. A short hop across Middle Tysoe is a smaller job than a run towards Coventry, under 25 miles away, and so tell us roughly how far it went.
When our technicians turn up in Middle Tysoe, what takes place?
The van reaches your car wherever it has come to rest — your own driveway, near War Memorial, or by Tysoe CofE Primary School. Which fluid went in, the quantity, and whether it ran: we ask since the answers set both work and price. No one sets off until you've heard our quote over the phone.
Emptying that tank comes next, followed by a full flush of the fuel system. Not like petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and attacks certain fuel-system metals, and none of that washes out unaided. That is why it matters more. Once the filter has been cleaned — or renewed, if required — fresh diesel goes in, and then the vehicle gets tested. Then we start the car and check it runs correctly before we go.
If the engine hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we're there, using pumps that are fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house after dark. The insurer usually wants the engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and you get both once this job is done. Payment is on the day, with no money upfront. While we travel, take a look at your policy; many include cover for misfuelling.
About Middle Tysoe itself
Middle Tysoe is a village in Warwickshire, situated in the West Midlands region of England, with an elevation of around 110 metres. Middle Tysoe lies near the settlements of Upper Tysoe and Lower Tysoe, and is also close to Compton Wynyates. Middle Tysoe has a population of approximately 931 residents, who mostly live in detached houses. Middle Tysoe is located about 21.6 miles from Coventry and 71.5 miles from London.
Middle Tysoe and Warwickshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Middle Tysoe is a rural village, and the vans that cover it also work the towns around it, Lower Tysoe and Compton Wynyates among them, across the CV postcode area. Give a postcode that starts CV35 0, and the van gets there fastest.
No need to shift the car. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street close to Village Hall, a lay-by on the way to Tysoe Walled Kitchen Garden, a driveway. If you are near a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Great War Roll of Honour, ring and ask rather than assuming.
The short version for Middle Tysoe people
First, the cap; then, the pour. Still AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can empty it wherever it is, wherever around Warwickshire: switch the car off then phone 0333 366 0103.