AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Mytchett: Why It Occurs and How to Avoid It
Keep your motor and ignition off then call 0333 366 0103 now — reading can wait if AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. A drain and a thorough flush, carried out just where the vehicle sits around Mytchett, is usually what it takes if caught before the engine runs. If you're reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it takes place and how to make sure it does not.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel car need its own filler?
No single fluid but two: that is how many modern diesels near Mytchett and Farnborough Street run, with diesel feeding the motor. Your exhaust, not your engine, is where AdBlue ends up: dosed into the fumes to clean it, from its own tank.
Each tank has its own filler. 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. At the pump, your diesel side gets filled constantly. Seldom topped up, AdBlue normally comes from a bottle, poured by a driver who has to stop and think what cap to use. It is in that gap that the error happens.
Mytchett: how AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
Hurry follows from the warning. The vehicle warns you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank sends the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up gets done quickly, before work on a driveway off Mytchett Road, or on the way home in the car park at Potter's Inn.
New-to-you motors are next, as well. Hire cars, new cars 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: a diesel filler or AdBlue one, it slides in as readily, and after the pour begins, nothing halts it. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Mytchett or out in Mytchett Place.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Check these first, on a forecourt around Mytchett or a drive over in Ash Vale. Seconds, that's all.
- Where it sits misleads; the cap does not. AdBlue caps tend to be blue or carry the name "AdBlue" — diesel caps usually don't.
- The size. On plenty of vehicles the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Plenty of cars say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If the filler isn't by your diesel cap, it is in your boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Picking up a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park at North Camp? Ask whoever drove it last before leaving, rather than when the light goes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
For the day the warning comes on — wherever you are across Surrey — a simple routine to follow.
- Pull in on level, motor off, with time to spare — not hurried on the side of Mytchett Place Road.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after you find the AdBlue filler and reading it. Silly, perhaps, but it does the trick.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Gently does it, through the bottle's own spout, until it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check again. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
Discover during the second or third stage that the bottle went in the diesel tank? That's where you stop. Never go on to stage five.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, around Mytchett?
What follows is a short order of things, beginning with no starting your motor. On many diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so do not switch it on. Do not top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where the fuel is pulled from.
If you are at a forecourt, whether it is the BP or the JET, ask the attendants to help roll the car clear of the pump. If you are on your own drive in Mytchett, leave it where it stands.
Already run? Pull over once it is safe, then switch off. Leave the M3 — under 3 miles out of Mytchett — at the first exit. Roughly how far did it go? Crossing Mytchett is less a job than a run of under 50 miles to Westminster, so tell us.
When our engineers arrive around Mytchett, what happens?
Wherever the vehicle came to rest, whether by Mytchett Primary & Nursery Academy, beside The Mytchett Centre or on your own drive, the van comes to it. Our engineers ask what went in, about how much, and whether it has run, since those answers decide this work and the price. You get that quote by phone, before anyone sets off.
The system is then cleaned thoroughly, once that tank is cleared. With AdBlue that counts 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. Once the fuel filter has been flushed — or renewed, where needed — fresh diesel is added, and finally the vehicle is tested. We don't leave until it has been started and is running smoothly.
If your motor hasn't run, most jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are safe on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house after dark. Your insurer will ask for the engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and both are yours at the end. Payment comes on the day, with no deposit. While we travel, have a look at your insurance documents; plenty carry cover for misfuelling.
About Mytchett
Mytchett is a village in Surrey, situated on the riverside at an elevation of 72 metres, with Mytchett being close to the nearby settlements of Mytchett Place and South Farnborough. Mytchett has a population of approximately 1896 residents, with Mytchett predominantly consisting of detached housing. Mytchett is located near Farnborough Park, and Mytchett is about 29.9 miles from London.
Mytchett and Surrey: AdBlue drains across the area
Being a village, Mytchett has the same vans as surrounding places — South Farnborough, Farnborough Park — all the way through GU postcodes and the surrounding area beyond. A postcode starting GU16 6 gets our van to you fastest.
Shifting your car isn't needed. Wherever it stands — near The Tamu Nepalese Community Centre, in a layby heading to Frimley Lodge Park, on a drive — that's where it is cleared. If you are near a border, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Mytchett Baptist Church, ring and ask instead of assuming.
Mytchett motorists: the short version
First, the cap; then, the pour. Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, anywhere around Surrey, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank anyway — so leave the vehicle off and ring 0333 366 0103.