Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Montgomery Lines: Why It Happens
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case set this page aside a moment, leave your ignition and engine off, then call 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a thorough flush, carried out right where the car sits in Montgomery Lines, is normally what it needs when caught before the motor runs. If you are reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it happens and how to make sure it doesn't.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel car
Diesel feeds the engine — but many newer diesels seen around Montgomery Lines and Ash carry another fluid as well. Its own tank keeps it, and from there it goes to the exhaust, and there spraying treats the fumes.
There is a filler on every tank. Some cars keep the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; a lot more place both side by side under one flap. At the petrol pump, your diesel side gets filled all the time. The AdBlue side is fuelled far less frequently, usually from a bottle, and usually by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. It's in that gap that the error happens.
Montgomery Lines: how AdBlue in the diesel tank happens
Carelessness seldom causes it. What does is three things lining up at once.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and if it runs out completely, the vehicle goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Alison's Road before work, or in the car park outside The Crimea Inn on the way home.
The old car's cap is where your hand goes — yet a rental car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers elsewhere. That's the second thing: an unfamiliar motor.
Nothing stops the pour once it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Montgomery Lines or out in Aldershot.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
A few seconds is all these take — so check them before you pour anything, on a drive in Ash Vale or a forecourt around Montgomery Lines.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap normally isn't. Read it rather than going by position.
- On plenty of motors, the size tells: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- A label inside the fuel flap often says which fuel goes where, on plenty of cars. Check for it.
- The handbook says where it is if your filler is not next to the diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- The person who drove the vehicle last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park at Aldershot, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
Wherever around Hampshire the light comes on, this is a routine for the day.
- Pull in on level, engine off, with time to spare — never rushing on the side of Bunbury Close.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it does the trick.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave the car on.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Before starting the car, shut the cap and look again that your diesel cap never came off.
Find at the second or third step that the bottle went in the diesel tank? That's where you stop. Don't go on to stage five.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Montgomery Lines?
Short list, then. Top of it: your engine remains unstarted. Keep the ignition off as well, since on many diesels switching it on alone starts the pump. Filling up with diesel won't dilute it: rather than mixing, AdBlue sinks to the bottom of your tank, just where fuel is drawn from.
On a forecourt — Morrisons, Tesco or another — the staff will usually help push your car clear, if you ask. If you are on your own drive around Montgomery Lines, leave the vehicle where it sits.
Already started? Pull over when it is sensible, then turn off. Leave the M3 — under 5 miles out of Montgomery Lines — at the next exit. Roughly how far did it go? Hopping across Montgomery Lines is less a job than a run of under 50 miles to Winchester, so tell us.
What happens when we get there around Montgomery Lines
We come to the vehicle wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside Stanhope Primary School, close to Cathedral Church of St. Michael & St. George (RC) or on your own driveway. Which liquid got in, the quantity, and whether it ran: our engineers ask since those replies set both work and quote. On the call itself, you are told our quote — ahead of dispatch.
Next: a drain, then a full flush of the whole system. Much more than with petrol, it counts with AdBlue: the crystals build up, some metals corrode, and none of that washes away unaided, however long it sits. Testing is at the end: before that, fresh diesel goes in, and the fuel filter is cleaned or replaced if necessary. The engine is started next and tested to make sure it runs smoothly, all before our engineers head off.
Unstarted cars usually mean a half-hour visit from arrival. The equipment is fine on a busy filling station, and quiet enough for a residential street after dark. Nothing upfront; you settle up on the day. Afterwards, a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer are handed to you for your insurer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours while we are on the way.
About Montgomery Lines and where it is
Montgomery Lines is a suburban area situated on the riverside in Hampshire, with an elevation of around 88 metres. Montgomery Lines forms part of the larger urban landscape near Aldershot, North Town, and North Camp. Montgomery Lines is characterized by its predominantly semi-detached housing stock, typical of many suburban areas in the South East of England. Montgomery Lines is located approximately 27.6 miles from Winchester and 32.1 miles from London.
AdBlue drains across Hampshire, Montgomery Lines included
Over GU postcodes, the vans that cover Montgomery Lines — a residential suburb — work the surrounding places too, North Camp and North Town included. Our van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting GU11 2.
Your car doesn't need to move. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Parade Park, a side street near St. Andrew's Garrison Church: we drain the vehicle where it is. If you are close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Alpine Snowsports, ring and ask rather than guessing.
The short version for Montgomery Lines drivers
Tip no AdBlue till you have read the cap. AdBlue in the diesel tank after all? Leave the car off then phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, across Hampshire.