Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Moss Pit: Why It Occurs
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. Normally, when the motor has not run, it is drained and fully flushed where the vehicle sits in Moss Pit. Reading before the event? Then what follows covers how it happens and what to prevent it ever happening.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
Diesel goes to the motor — but many modern diesels driven round Moss Pit and Acton Gate carry a second fluid as well. AdBlue's own tank keeps it, and from there it is sent to your exhaust, and there spraying cleans the gas.
There is a filler for every tank. Under one flap, side by side: that is the layout on a lot of vehicles. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler sits under the bonnet or in your boot instead. The diesel side is filled at the petrol pump all the time. The AdBlue side is topped up far less regularly, normally from a bottle, and usually by someone who has to stop and think where it goes. The mistake grows in that gap between the two.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank happen around Moss Pit?
Carelessness seldom causes it. What does is three things coming up together.
Haste follows from the warning. The vehicle warns you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank puts it into limp mode — so the top-up gets done quickly, before work on a driveway off The Garthlands, or on the way home in the car park outside Royal Oak Inn.
New-to-you motors come next, too. Hire cars, new cars and company vehicles put their fillers differently, and habit reaches for the cap used on the old one.
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. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Moss Pit or out in Rickerscote.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Be it a Moss Pit forecourt or a driveway over in Hyde Lea, spend a couple of seconds on these before anything goes in.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is often 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.
- Open the filler flap and check for a label — plenty of vehicles show which belongs in each filler right there.
- Can't find it beside the diesel filler? In that case check below the bonnet or inside your boot — the handbook will say which.
- The person who drove the vehicle last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park at Stafford, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever in Staffordshire that is.
- Stop somewhere level, motor off, with time to spare — never hurried on the side of Garth Close.
- Daft as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap does the trick — once you have located your filler and read it.
- The two behind one flap? So make sure the cap on your diesel side stays closed ahead of raising the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Shut the cap, then check once more — making sure the diesel filler remained closed the whole time. After that, start the car.
Find at step two or three that it has already gone into the diesel side? So stop right there. Don't go on to stage five.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Moss Pit already?
The short order of things, beginning with not starting your motor. The fuel pump runs on plenty of diesels as soon as your ignition is switched on — so keep it off. Topping up with diesel will not weaken it: rather than mixing, AdBlue sinks to the bottom of that tank, right where fuel is taken from.
If you're on a forecourt, whether it is the Esso or the another forecourt nearby, ask the staff to help roll your car clear of the pump. Leave it where it is if you're on your own drive around Moss Pit.
Already run? Pull over when it is safe, then switch off. The next junction means the place to come off if you're on the M6, under a mile from Moss Pit. About how far did it go? Crossing Moss Pit is less a job than a run of under 15 miles towards Wolverhampton, so say.
What happens when our engineers get there in Moss Pit
We come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside Burton Manor Primary School, near St Peter's Church or on your own drive. What fluid got in, the quantity, and if it ran: we ask because the replies set both work and price. On the phone call itself, you are told our quote — ahead of anything else.
The system is then cleaned thoroughly, once your tank is emptied. Not like petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and attacks certain fuel-system metals, and none of that washes away unaided. That is why it counts more. Testing is last: before that, clean diesel is added, and the fuel filter is flushed or replaced as needed. We do not go until it has been fired up and is running properly.
Most jobs are finished in about half an hour once we get there, as long as the engine has not run — and the pumps our engineers use are safe on a busy forecourt and quiet after dark beside a house. Your insurer will ask for the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and both are yours once this job is done. Payment comes on the day, with no money upfront. It is worth checking your policy while we travel to you: misfuelling cover is included with many policies.
About Moss Pit and where it is
Moss Pit is a suburban area in Staffordshire, situated inland at an elevation of 94 metres, with semi-detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation. Moss Pit lies approximately 13 miles from Wolverhampton and is surrounded by nearby places such as Rickerscote and Rising Brook. Moss Pit is part of the wider West Midlands region, with London being around 122 miles to the southeast. Moss Pit has a population of around 4256 residents.
Moss Pit and Staffordshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Throughout ST postcodes, our vans covering Moss Pit — a residential suburb — work the nearby places too, Burton Manor and Rising Brook included. A postcode starting ST17 9 gets our van to you fastest.
No need to shift the car. Anywhere it sits — near Rising Brook Library, in a layby en route to Rising Brook Community Green Space, at home — that's where it is cleared. Ring and ask rather than guessing if you are close to a border, or somewhere hard to explain, like the back of Plymouth Brethren.
In short, for Moss Pit drivers
First, the cap; then, the tip. AdBlue in the diesel tank after all? Keep the vehicle off and call 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, throughout Staffordshire.