AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Moseley Village: How It Happens and How to Stop It
Pause here a minute when your diesel tank already has AdBlue in it: ignition off, motor off, and phone 0333 366 0103. In Moseley Village, finding it before the motor runs normally leaves a drain and a full flush on the spot. The rest of this page explains why it occurs and how to make sure it does not — useful if you're reading ahead of time.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel vehicle need its own filler?
Many modern diesels on the roads about Moseley Village and Stowlawn carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the engine. Its own tank holds it, and from there it goes to the exhaust, and there spraying treats the gas.
There is a filler for each tank. On a lot of cars the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in the boot or under the bonnet. Topping up your diesel side at the pump happens all the time. A driver who has to stop and work out where it goes usually tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less often. The mistake lives in that gap.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs around Moseley Village
It is seldom carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and if it runs out completely, the vehicle drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Deans Road before work, or in the car park at The Merry Boys on the way home.
Then your car is new. A hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and the hand gets to for the cap it would have used on the old one.
No part halts the tip once it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Moseley Village or out in Neachells.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Check these first, at a forecourt around Moseley Village or a drive over in Monmore Green. A few seconds, that's all.
- Position can mislead; the cap does not. AdBlue caps are often blue or carry the name "AdBlue" — diesel ones normally don't.
- Plenty of motors fit AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- A label inside the fuel flap frequently shows which fuel goes where, on many motors. Look for it.
- The handbook. If your filler is not by your diesel cap, it is in your boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Check with the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — when you collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park at Willenhall.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
The day the light goes on, anywhere around West Midlands, follow this routine.
- Stop somewhere level, motor off, with time in hand — not rushing on the side of Stowheath Lane.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it works.
- The diesel cap stays on. When both sit under a flap, confirm it is shut before the bottle comes up.
- Slowly does it, through the bottle's own spout, until it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Only after that, start your car: close the cap, check a second time, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
Discover during the second or third step that the bottle went into the wrong filler? That's where you stop. Stage five is out.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Moseley Village?
The short order of things, beginning with not starting the motor. The fuel pump starts on plenty of diesels the moment the ignition goes on — and so leave it off. Topping up with diesel won't thin it: rather than mixing, AdBlue drops to the base of your tank, just where fuel is taken from.
If you are at a forecourt, whether it is the Shell or the another forecourt nearby, ask the staff to help push the vehicle clear of the pump. On your own drive around Moseley Village? Then your car stays put.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if the engine has already run. On the M6, under 5 miles from Moseley Village, that means the next exit. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Wolverhampton, under 3 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Moseley Village.
Our arrival around Moseley Village, and what occurs next
Our technicians come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside East Park Academy, close to St. Joseph's Wolverhampton or on your own drive. Both the work and our price depend on three answers — what fluid, what quantity, and if it has run — so our engineers ask. The price comes over the phone, ahead of any van leaving.
After that: a drain, then a thorough flush of the whole system. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and attacks certain fuel-system metals, and neither clears out unaided. Hence it matters more. The filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and your car is tested. We do not leave until it has been started and is running properly.
If your motor has not run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. It's worth checking your insurance as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover comes with many policies.
About Moseley Village and where it is
Moseley Village is a suburban area in the West Midlands, situated near Wolverhampton and characterized by its semi-detached housing stock. Moseley Village sits at an elevation of 141 metres, inland from the major cities of the region. Moseley Village is located close to nearby places such as Neachells, Summerford Place, and Stow Heath, and is approximately 111.6 miles from London. Moseley Village has a population of around 6200 residents.
AdBlue drains around Moseley Village and across West Midlands
Moseley Village is a residential suburb, and our vans that cover it also work the places near it, Summerford Place and Stow Heath among them, across the WV postcode area. Quickest of all: give a WV1 2 postcode to the van.
Your car remains where it is. We drain it where it is — a side street near East Park Memorial, a lay-by on the way to Black Country Millennium Forest, a drive. Ring and ask rather than guessing if you're near a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain, like the back of East Park Library.
For Moseley Village drivers, the short version
Before you tip, read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank all the same, leave the vehicle off and phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it sits, anywhere in West Midlands.