Why It Occurs and How to Avoid It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Monkston Park
Keep your motor and ignition off and call 0333 366 0103 first — the rest can wait when AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Usually, if your engine hasn't turned, it's emptied and thoroughly purged where your vehicle sits around Monkston Park. Reading before the event? Then what follows explains why it comes about and what to stop it ever happening.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
Many current diesels on the roads about Monkston Park and Milton Keynes Village carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your motor. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Each tank comes with one filler of its own. Under one flap, side by side: that is the layout on many cars. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler sits beneath the bonnet or in the boot instead. The diesel side is topped up at the pump all the time. A driver who has to stop and think where it goes usually tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less frequently. That gap is where the slip lives.
Monkston Park: how AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs
Carelessness rarely causes it. Instead is three things coming up at once.
On a driveway off V10 Brickhill Street before work, or in the car park at The Swan Inn on the way home: that is where the hurried top-up happens. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue runs low your car warns you, and once it's gone, limp mode kicks in.
Next, the hand reaches for the cap it knew on the old car — since a rental car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not.
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 after it has started. Walton Hall or the middle of Monkston Park: it takes the same few seconds in both.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Check these first, at a forecourt in Monkston Park or a driveway over in Woughton on the Green. A few seconds, that's all.
- Read the cap instead of going by position: AdBlue caps are frequently blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones usually are not.
- On plenty of cars, the size gives it away: AdBlue has the smaller filler neck.
- A label inside the fuel flap frequently shows which fuel goes where, on many cars. Check for it.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that is where the filler sits if it's not by the diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- The previous driver will know. Ask as you pick up a rental or fleet car — at Bow Brickhill's car park, perhaps — not once the light appears.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
When the light goes on, wherever across Buckinghamshire, use this routine.
- Not in a rush on the side of Woodspring Court, not on a slope, not with the engine running: park then switch off first.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after finding the AdBlue filler and read it. Daft, perhaps, but it does the trick.
- The two under one flap? So confirm the cap on the diesel filler is still closed before lifting the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Shut the cap, then check once more — confirm your diesel cap remained closed throughout. After that, start the vehicle.
Discover at the second or third stage that the bottle went into the wrong tank? That is where you stop. Step five stays off limits.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, around Monkston Park?
Don't start the motor: that's where the short order of things starts. Do not switch your ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Thinning it with extra diesel won't work, since AdBlue sinks to the base instead of mixing — and that's where your fuel is sucked from.
On a forecourt — Tesco, Shell or another — the attendants will usually help roll your car clear, when you ask. Leave it where it is if you're on your own driveway around Monkston Park.
Where your motor has been run already, pull over safely then switch the vehicle off. On the M1, under 3 miles from Monkston Park, that means the next exit. About how far did it go? Crossing Monkston Park is less a job than a run of under 3 miles towards Milton Keynes, so tell us.
Our arrival around Monkston Park, and what occurs next
By St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School, near Monkston Park Community Centre or on your own drive: wherever the car has stopped, our technicians come to it. Which fluid got in, the quantity, and if it ran: our technicians ask because the replies set the work and price. Nobody sets off before you've heard the price by phone.
Next: a drain, then a thorough flush of the whole system. With AdBlue that matters more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not wash out on its own. A test comes at the end: before that, fresh diesel is added, and your filter is flushed or changed as needed. Your engine is fired up next and tested to make sure it runs correctly, all before our engineers leave.
Most jobs are done in about half an hour once our engineers arrive, as long as your engine has not run — and the pumps our engineers use are safe on a busy forecourt yet quiet at night beside a house. The insurer usually wants the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and you get both once this job is done. Payment is on the day, with no deposit. Misfuelling cover is part of plenty of insurance policies — and so make use of the wait to check yours.
About Monkston Park, for a moment
Monkston Park is a suburban area located on the outskirts of Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, situated near the riverside at an elevation of around 70 metres. Monkston Park sits in close proximity to nearby places such as Walton Hall, Middleton, and Monkston, and is characterized by its predominantly detached housing. Monkston Park is approximately 44 miles from London and is part of the larger Milton Keynes urban area.
AdBlue drains round Monkston Park, and Buckinghamshire beyond
Throughout MK postcodes, our vans that cover Monkston Park — a residential suburb — work the nearby spots too, Monkston and Middleton among them. A postcode starting MK10 9 gets the van to you fastest.
Your car doesn't need to shift. Draining takes place right there, whether a drive, a road near Monkston Community Centre, or a lay-by towards Kents Hill Park. Awkward to pin down, like the back of Robert Hooke Building Landing Lights? By a county line? Checking beats assuming, so phone.
For Monkston Park people, the short version
Before you pour, read the cap. Still AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will drain it wherever it stands, anywhere across Buckinghamshire: keep the car off and ring 0333 366 0103.