Nevill Park: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? In that case set this page down for now, keep your ignition and motor off, then call 0333 366 0103. Around Nevill Park, finding it before the motor runs normally means a drain and a full flush where it stands. Not happened yet? Further down, the page covers the reasons it occurs and the ways to prevent it for good.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel motor need its own filler?
Plenty of newer diesels in Rusthall, like those in Nevill Park, run on two liquids; your motor takes only the diesel. The exhaust, not the motor, is where AdBlue goes: sprayed into the fumes to clean them, from a separate tank.
Each tank has a filler of its own. Plenty of motors share a single flap for both, whereas some move the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is topped up at the pump all the time. Far less frequently, the AdBlue side gets topped up — normally from a bottle, by a person working out where it goes. The mistake grows in the gap between the two.
AdBlue in your diesel tank in Nevill Park: how it occurs
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
On a drive off Nevill Court before work, or in the car park at Toad Rock Retreat on the way home: that is where the hurried top-up takes place. Why the rush? As AdBlue runs low the vehicle warns you, and if it's empty, limp mode follows.
Then, the hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old motor — since a hire car, a new vehicle or a company car places the fillers where your last one didn't.
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 tip after it has started. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Nevill Park or out in Denny Bottom.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
Look at these first, at a forecourt around Nevill Park or a driveway out in Lower Green. Seconds, no more.
- Position misleads; the cap does not. AdBlue ones are often blue or bear the word "AdBlue" — diesel ones normally do not.
- Many cars give AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- A label inside the fuel flap often says which fuel goes where, on many motors. Look for it.
- The handbook. If the filler is not by the diesel cap, it is in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Picking up a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park outside Tunbridge Wells? Check with the person who drove the car last before you set off, not when the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
When the light goes on, anywhere across Kent, use this routine.
- Stop on level, motor off, with time to spare — not hurried on the side of The Midway.
- Find the AdBlue filler, read the cap, and speak the name "AdBlue" out loud while unscrewing it. It sounds silly. It works.
- The diesel cap remains on. When the two share a flap, make sure it's closed before the bottle comes up.
- Stop when your tank fills or the bottle runs dry; until then, tip slowly using the built-in spout.
- Shut the cap, then check again — making sure your diesel cap remained closed throughout. After that, start the car.
Find during the second or third stage that AdBlue went in the wrong tank? That is where you stop. Step five stays out.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Nevill Park already?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start the engine. Keep the ignition off too, because on plenty of diesels switching it on alone runs the fuel pump. Filling up with diesel won't dilute it: instead, AdBlue drops to the base of your tank, right where fuel is drawn from.
On a forecourt — Esso, Sainsbury's or any other — the attendants will usually help roll your car clear, when you ask. Leave it where it is if you're on your own driveway in Nevill Park.
When the motor has been run by now, pull over somewhere safe and turn it off. On the M25, under 15 miles from Nevill Park, that means the next exit. Roughly how far did it go? Crossing Nevill Park is less work than a trip of under 50 miles to Brighton and Hove, and so tell us.
When our technicians get there in Nevill Park, what takes place?
The van reaches the car wherever it has come to rest — your own driveway, near St Paul's Church, or outside St Mark's Church of England Primary School. Both the work and our quote depend on three replies — what fluid, which quantity, and whether it has run — so we ask. During the phone call itself, you are told our price — ahead of dispatch.
Emptying the tank comes next, then a full flush of the system. Much more than with petrol, it counts here: the crystals build up, certain metals are attacked, and nothing washes out on its own, however long it is left. Filter cleaned or, if needed, swapped; clean diesel in; then a check of the vehicle. Your engine is fired up next and tested to confirm it runs smoothly, all before our technicians leave.
Most jobs are finished in about half an hour once we get there, as long as the motor has not run — and the pumps our technicians use are safe on a live forecourt yet quiet at night beside a house. The insurer usually wants the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and both are yours at the end. Payment comes on the day, with no deposit. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours while we are on the way.
About Nevill Park, for a moment
Nevill Park is a small suburban area situated on the riverside in Kent, with an elevation of 106 metres. Nevill Park lies approximately 30.6 miles from London and 26.8 miles from the city of Brighton and Hove. Nevill Park is characterised by its semi-detached housing and is located near other local areas such as Denny Bottom and Ramslye. Nevill Park has a population of around 564 residents.
AdBlue drains in Nevill Park and across Kent
Being a residential suburb, Nevill Park shares its vans nearby places — Ramslye, Hungershall Park — all the way through TN postcodes and the surrounding area beyond. Our van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting TN4 8.
No need to move the car. Anywhere it stands — near Sunnyside Community Hall, on a lay-by en route to The Bumps, at home — that's where it gets drained. Ring and ask instead of assuming if you're close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of St Paul's Church Centre.
Nevill Park motorists: the short version
Before you tip, read the cap. Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, anywhere in Kent, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank all the same — and so leave the vehicle off and ring 0333 366 0103.