Newton Ferrers: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? In that case put this page aside for now, leave the ignition and motor off, and call 0333 366 0103. In Newton Ferrers, catching it before the engine runs usually means a drain and a full flush on the spot. If you are reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it takes place and how to make sure it doesn't.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle, and its separate tank
No single fluid but two: that is what many modern diesels around Newton Ferrers and Membland run, with diesel feeding your engine. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into your exhaust gas to clean it.
There's a filler on each tank. Many of motors share a single flap for the two, while others put the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. Topping up the diesel side at the petrol pump goes on all the time. A driver who has to stop and think where it goes normally fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less commonly. That gap is where the error lives.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank takes place in Newton Ferrers
It's rarely carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a message from the car, and letting it run dry means limp mode — so a hurried top-up, perhaps before work off Church Park, perhaps outside The Dolphin on the way home that evening.
New-to-you cars come second, as well. Hire cars, new vehicles and company motors put their fillers in new places, and the hand goes for the cap it used on the old one.
No part stops the tip after it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. It's a few seconds, whether out in Noss Mayo or right in the heart of Newton Ferrers.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
Check these before pouring, at a forecourt around Newton Ferrers or a drive over in Knighton. A few seconds, no more.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is frequently blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap normally isn't. Read it instead of going by position.
- On many cars, size tells: AdBlue has the smaller filler neck.
- A label inside your fuel flap often says which fuel goes where, on many motors. Check for it.
- The handbook. If your filler isn't by the diesel cap, it is in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Whoever had it before knows. Check as you collect a rental or fleet car — at Plymouth's car park, perhaps — rather than when the light appears.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
Wherever around Devon the light comes on, this is a routine for that day.
- Not in a rush on the side of Newton Hill, not on a slope, not with the motor running: park and switch off first.
- Locate the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and speak the name "AdBlue" out loud while unscrewing it. It sounds silly. It does the trick.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your 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 runs out.
- Shut the cap, and look once more — making sure your diesel filler stayed closed the whole time. Only then, start your car.
Find during the second or third stage that the bottle went into the diesel filler? That is where you stop. Don't go on to stage five.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Newton Ferrers already?
What follows is a short order of things, beginning with not starting your motor. On many diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so do not switch the car on. Don't top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is pulled from.
On a forecourt — Valero, Texaco or another — the attendants will normally help push your car clear, when you ask. If you are on your own drive around Newton Ferrers, leave the vehicle where it stands.
If your engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. Leave the M5 — under 50 miles out of Newton Ferrers — at the first exit. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Plymouth, under 10 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Newton Ferrers.
Our arrival in Newton Ferrers, and what happens next
Our technicians come to the vehicle wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside Newton Ferrers Church of England Primary School, near Holy Cross or on your own driveway. Both the work and our quote rest on three replies — what fluid, what quantity, and whether it's run — so our technicians ask. Nobody sets off until you have heard the price over the phone.
Your system is then rinsed thoroughly, once the tank is cleared. With AdBlue that matters more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't wash out on its own. A test is last: before that, fresh diesel is added, and the fuel filter is cleaned or replaced if necessary. We don't go until it has been fired up and is running correctly.
Most jobs are done in roughly half an hour once we get there, provided your engine hasn't run — and the pumps our technicians use are safe on a busy forecourt and quiet at night outside a house. 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 policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover comes with plenty of policies.
About Newton Ferrers and where it is
Newton Ferrers is a coastal village in south Devon, situated near the mouth of the Yealm Estuary and close to the city of Plymouth. Newton Ferrers has a population of around 949 people and is characterized by its detached housing stock. Newton Ferrers sits at an elevation of 34 metres, looking out over the sea and surrounded by nearby places such as Noss Mayo and Bridgend.
AdBlue drains around Newton Ferrers and across Devon
Over PL postcodes, the vans covering Newton Ferrers — a coastal village — work the nearby places too, The Butts and Bridgend included. A postcode starting PL8 1 gets our van to you fastest.
The car doesn't need to move. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to The Green, a side street near Newton Ferrers & Noss Mayo WI Community Hall: we drain the car where it is. Tricky to explain, like the back of John Iliffe Poole? By a county line? Checking is better than guessing, and so phone.
In short, for Newton Ferrers people
Tip nothing till you have read the cap. Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, anywhere around Devon, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank anyway — and so leave the car off and phone 0333 366 0103.