Moorhaven Village: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the engine and your ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103. A drain and a full flush, carried out just where your car sits in Moorhaven Village, is normally what it needs when caught before your engine runs. Here before the event? In that case the rest covers how it happens and what to prevent it happening at all.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel vehicle
Diesel feeds your motor — yet plenty of current diesels seen round Moorhaven Village and Cheston hold another fluid 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.
Separate tanks, separate fillers. Plenty of cars share a single flap for both, whereas others put the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. Topping up your diesel side at the petrol pump happens constantly. Much less regularly, the AdBlue side gets filled — mostly from a bottle, by someone working out where it goes. The mistake grows in the gap between the two.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank take place around Moorhaven Village?
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
Hurry follows from the warning. The vehicle tells you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank puts the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up gets done quickly, before work on a driveway off Leigh Close, or on the way home in the car park at Horse & Groom.
Unfamiliar motors are next, as well. Hire cars, new motors and company cars place their fillers in new places, and habit reaches for the cap it used on the old one.
Lastly, the spout fits: diesel filler or AdBlue one, it slides in just as easily, and after the tip starts, nothing halts it. Bittaford or the middle of Moorhaven Village: it is the same few seconds either way.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Before you pour anything, whether on a drive in Filham or a forecourt around Moorhaven Village, check these. They take a few seconds.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap normally is not. Read it rather than going by where it sits.
- The size. On many vehicles the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Many vehicles say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If your filler isn't by your diesel cap, it is in your boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- The person who drove the vehicle last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park at Ivybridge, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
For the day the light appears — anywhere you are across Devon — a simple routine to follow.
- Not in a rush on the side of Moorland Close, not on a slope, not with the engine running: park and switch off first.
- Daft as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap works — once you have found your filler and read the cap.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Finish when that tank fills or the bottle runs dry; before that, tip gently using the own spout.
- Before you start the vehicle, close the cap and check a second time that the diesel cap was never opened off.
Discover during the second or third step that the bottle went into the diesel tank? That's where you stop. Don't carry on to step five.
Moorhaven Village: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Brief order, then. First: the motor remains unstarted. Keep your ignition off too, since on many diesels it alone starts your fuel pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is drawn from — so don't top up with diesel to thin it.
Ask the staff to help roll your car clear of the pump if you're on a forecourt — the Shell, the BP or anywhere else. At home around Moorhaven Village? Then your car stays where it is.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if your motor has already run. Moorhaven Village sits under 25 miles from the M5; there, take the first exit. Distance counts — a short hop across Moorhaven Village makes a smaller job than driving under 15 miles to Plymouth — so tell us roughly how far it went.
When our technicians turn up around Moorhaven Village, what takes place?
Our technicians come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside Ugborough Primary School, close to Bittaford Methodist Church or on your own drive. Both the work and our quote depend on three replies — what liquid, what quantity, and whether it's run — so we ask. No one sets off before you've heard our price over the phone.
Draining the tank comes next, followed by a full flush of the system. More than with petrol, it counts with AdBlue: the crystals form, certain metals are attacked, and nothing clears away unaided, however long it is left. Testing is last: before that, clean diesel goes in, and the filter is cleaned or replaced as needed. Your engine is fired up next and checked to make sure it runs correctly, all before our technicians head off.
Most jobs are done in about half an hour after our engineers get there, as long as the motor has not run — and the pumps our technicians use are safe on a busy forecourt yet quiet after dark beside a house. Paying is on the day, not upfront, and you are given the paperwork an insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Before we get there, take a look at your policy; many include cover for misfuelling.
About Moorhaven Village itself
Moorhaven Village is a small riverside village in Devon, situated near the towns of Bittaford and Ugborough. Moorhaven Village has a population of around 827 people and is characterized by its terraced housing. Moorhaven Village sits at an elevation of 166 metres, approximately 12 miles from Plymouth, and is part of the wider South West region of England. Moorhaven Village is located near Wrangaton, in a scenic area of Devon's countryside.
AdBlue drains around Moorhaven Village, and Devon beyond
Throughout PL postcodes, our vans that cover Moorhaven Village — a village — work the nearby places too, Ugborough and Wrangaton among them. Quote a postcode that starts PL21 0, and the van arrives fastest.
Shifting your car is not needed. Draining takes place on the spot, whether a drive, a road by Bittaford Village Hall, or a layby towards Wrangaton Golf Course. Tricky to explain, like the back of Hut Circle? Close to a border? Checking beats assuming, and so phone.
Moorhaven Village drivers: the short version
Before you tip, read the cap. Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, anywhere around Devon, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank all the same — and so leave the vehicle off and phone 0333 366 0103.