Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in New Brighton: Why It Occurs
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? Then set this page down a moment, keep your ignition and engine off, and call 0333 366 0103. Caught before your motor runs, it is generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is in New Brighton. Reading before the event? Then the rest explains why it comes about and what to prevent it ever happening.
AdBlue in a diesel car, and its separate tank
No single liquid but two: that is how plenty of newer diesels near New Brighton and Aldsworth run, with diesel for the motor. The exhaust, not your motor, is where AdBlue goes: sprayed into the gas to fresh it, from its own tank.
There's a filler for every tank. On a lot of vehicles the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in your boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is topped up at the pump all the time. Rarely filled, AdBlue usually goes in out of a bottle, poured by someone who must stop and think what filler to use. It's in the gap that the slip happens.
New Brighton: how AdBlue in the diesel tank happens
Seldom is it carelessness: normally three things line up.
On a drive off Oak Meadow Close before work, or in the car park outside The White Horse heading home: that's where the hurried top-up happens. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and once it's empty, limp mode follows.
The old car's filler is where the hand reaches — but a hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers elsewhere. That's a second thing: a new car.
Nothing halts the pour after it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Whether it takes place in Westbourne or the middle of New Brighton, it is the same few seconds.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Check these before pouring, on a forecourt around New Brighton or a drive over in Breach. Seconds, that's all.
- Where it sits can mislead; the cap doesn't. AdBlue caps are often blue or carry the word "AdBlue" — diesel ones normally don't.
- Check the size: the smaller neck is, on plenty of motors, the AdBlue one.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Many cars say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook says which it is when your filler isn't next to the diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- The previous driver will know. Check when you pick up a hire car or fleet car — from Emsworth's car park, perhaps — not once the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
On the day the light appears — wherever you are around Hampshire — a routine to use.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with your engine running, and not in a rush on the side of Westbourne Road.
- Locate the AdBlue filler, read the cap, and say the name "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly. It works.
- Both under one flap? Then confirm the cap on the diesel side stays shut before raising the bottle.
- Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Before you start your car, close the cap and look a second time that your diesel cap never came off.
Find during the second or third step that AdBlue went in the diesel tank? That is where you stop. Leave out step five entirely.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around New Brighton?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start the motor. Leave your ignition off as well, since on many diesels switching it on by itself starts your pump. Do not top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is drawn from.
Ask the staff to help push your car clear of the petrol pump if you are on a forecourt — the Murco, the Shell or anywhere else. Leave it where it is if you are on your own driveway in New Brighton.
If your engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. On the A3(M), under 5 miles from New Brighton, that means the next junction. Distance matters — a short hop across New Brighton is a smaller job than driving under 10 miles towards Chichester — so tell us roughly how far it went.
Our arrival around New Brighton, and what occurs next
By St James Church of England Controlled Primary School, close to Westbourne Parish Hall or on your own drive: wherever the vehicle has stopped, our engineers come to it. The answers determine the work and the quote, so we ask what was put in, roughly how much, and whether it's run. Nobody heads out before you have heard the price over the phone.
Emptying that tank comes next, then a thorough flush of your system. More than with petrol, it matters with AdBlue: the crystals form, some metals corrode, and nothing washes away unaided, no matter how long it is left. After the fuel filter is cleaned — or replaced, if required — clean diesel goes in, and then your vehicle is tested. The motor is fired up next and checked to make sure it runs properly, all before our engineers head off.
Using pumps safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs in which your engine has not run need roughly half an hour once our engineers arrive. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours whilst we're on the way.
About New Brighton itself
New Brighton is a coastal suburban area in Hampshire, situated near the city of Chichester and close to the neighbouring communities of Westbourne, Lumley, and Emsworth. New Brighton has a population of approximately 3757 residents and is characterized by predominantly detached housing. New Brighton benefits from its proximity to the sea, with the area's elevation at around 10 metres above sea level.
AdBlue drains around New Brighton and across Hampshire
Lumley and Emsworth are among the places near New Brighton, a residential suburb, that the same vans cover, throughout PO postcodes. Fastest of all: give a PO10 7 postcode for the van.
Moving your car isn't needed. Anywhere it stands — beside Westbourne War Memorial, on a lay-by en route to Hampshire Farm Meadow, at home — that is where it gets cleared. Guessing won't help behind Emsworth Memorial Garden, close to a border, or somewhere hard to pin down; ring and ask.
New Brighton motorists: the short version
Always, the cap; then, the pour. AdBlue in the diesel tank regardless? Keep the car switched off then phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, across Hampshire.