How It Occurs and How to Prevent It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Newton St Cyres
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the engine and the ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a full flush, done just where your vehicle sits around Newton St Cyres, is usually all it takes if caught before the engine runs. The rest of this page covers why it occurs and how to make sure it does not — useful if you're reading ahead of time.
AdBlue in a diesel car, and its separate tank
No single fluid but two: that is what plenty of modern diesels around Newton St Cyres and Nettacott run, with diesel feeding your motor. AdBlue's own tank keeps it, and from there it goes to the exhaust, where spraying cleans the fumes.
Different tanks, separate fillers. 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. Filling the diesel side at the 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. It is in the gap that the slip lives.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank occur around Newton St Cyres?
Carelessness seldom causes it. What does is three things lining up together.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a warning from your car, and letting it run dry leads to limp mode — so a hurried top-up, maybe before work off Kingfisher Close, perhaps outside The Beer Engine on the way home after work.
Then the vehicle is strange. A hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and your hand gets to for the cap it would have 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 tip once it has started. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Newton St Cyres or out in Sweetham.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
Before you pour anything, whether on a drive in Upton Pyne or a forecourt in Newton St Cyres, check these. They take a few seconds.
- Where it sits can mislead; the cap doesn't. AdBlue caps are often blue or bear the name "AdBlue" — diesel ones usually don't.
- Look at the size: the smaller filler neck is, on many cars, the AdBlue one.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Many motors say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If the filler is not by your diesel cap, it's in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Check with the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — when you pick up a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park at the nearest station.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever across Devon that is.
- Not in a rush on the side of A377, not on a slope, not with the motor running: park then switch off first.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it works.
- Both behind one flap? So confirm the lid on the diesel side stays closed ahead of lifting the bottle.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty.
- Before you start the vehicle, close the cap and look again that the diesel cap never came off.
Spot at step two or three that it's already gone into the diesel side? So stop just there. Never go on to step five.
Newton St Cyres: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Do not start your motor: that's where the short order of things begins. Do not switch the ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Don't top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where the fuel is pulled from.
At a forecourt — Tesco, Green Earth Biodiesel or any other — the staff will usually help push the car away, when you ask. Your own driveway around Newton St Cyres is the place it stays.
Already run? Stop when it's safe, then switch off. The next exit means where to come off when you are on the M5, under 10 miles from Newton St Cyres. Roughly how far did it go? Crossing Newton St Cyres is less a job than a trip of under 5 miles towards Exeter, so tell us.
Our arrival around Newton St Cyres, and what takes place next
Outside Newton St Cyres Primary School, close to Parish Church of St Cyr and St Julitta or on your own driveway: wherever the vehicle has stopped, our engineers come to it. The replies determine the work and the price, and so our technicians ask what got in, about how much, and if it's run. On the phone call itself, you hear the price — before anything else.
The system is then purged thoroughly, once your tank is emptied. Much more than with petrol, it matters here: the crystals form, certain metals corrode, and nothing clears away on its own, however long it sits. Filter flushed or, where needed, swapped; clean diesel in; then a check of the vehicle. Before we go, our technicians fire it up and check that it is running properly.
Using pumps safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs where your motor hasn't run need about half an hour once we are there. The insurer will ask for an engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and you get both once the job is done. Payment is on the day, with no deposit. Before we get there, have a look at your insurance documents; plenty carry cover for misfuelling.
About Newton St Cyres itself
Newton St Cyres is a village in Devon, situated on the banks of the River Creedy at an elevation of 41 metres. Newton St Cyres lies close to the city of Exeter, approximately 4.2 miles to the south, and is surrounded by nearby places such as Sweetham and Shute. Newton St Cyres has a population of around 672 people, predominantly living in semi-detached housing. Newton St Cyres is located in the South West region of England, about 158.4 miles west of London.
Newton St Cyres and Devon: AdBlue drains across the area
Being a village, Newton St Cyres has the same vans as nearby places — Half Moon Village, Shute — right across EX postcodes and the surrounding area beyond. Our van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting EX5 5.
Shifting your car is not needed. Anywhere it sits — beside Newton St Cyres Parish Hall, on a lay-by en route to Arboretum, on a drive — that is where it is cleared. Tricky to pin down, like the back of Sherwood Gardens? By a border? Asking beats guessing, so ring.
In short, for Newton St Cyres people
Always, the cap; after that, the pour. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank regardless, leave the car off then phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel clears it where it waits, anywhere around Devon.