Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in North Boarhunt: Why It Occurs
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? Then set this page aside a moment, leave the ignition and engine off, and ring 0333 366 0103. In North Boarhunt, finding it before your motor runs usually means a drain and a full flush on the spot. Here in advance? Then what follows covers why it comes about and how to prevent it happening at all.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
Diesel feeds the motor — yet many newer diesels driven round North Boarhunt and Walton Heath carry a second fluid as well. AdBlue's own tank keeps it, and from there it goes to the exhaust, where a spray cleans the fumes.
Separate tanks, different fillers. Many of motors have a single flap for the two, while others put the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. Filling your diesel side at the pump happens constantly. Much less commonly, the AdBlue side gets filled — normally from a bottle, by a person thinking about where it goes. It is in that gap that the slip happens.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank take place in North Boarhunt?
Carelessness seldom causes it. What does is three things lining up together.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and if it runs out completely, your vehicle goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Bere Farm Lane before work, or in the car park at the pub in the village on the way home.
Then the car is strange. A hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and the hand hits for the cap it would have used on the old one.
A spout-topped bottle finds no obstacle at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. And so the pour, once begun, carries on. Mellishes Bottom or the heart of North Boarhunt: it takes the same few seconds in both.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
A few seconds is all the checks take — so run through them before you tip anything, on a driveway in Boarhunt or a forecourt in North Boarhunt.
- Read the cap instead of going by where it sits: AdBlue caps are often blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps usually are not.
- The size. On plenty of motors the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Open the filler flap and check for a label — many motors show which belongs in each filler just there.
- The handbook. If your filler isn't by your diesel cap, it is in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Collecting a hire or company car, say at the car park at Portchester? Check with whoever drove the car last before leaving, not when the light goes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever across Hampshire that is.
- Turn off after you park — flat ground, engine stopped, and not in a rush by Wickham Court on the verge.
- Daft as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew the cap does the trick — once you've found your filler and read it.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Gently is best, through the bottle's own spout, till it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap, and check again — making sure the diesel filler remained closed throughout. After that, start the car.
Discover during the second or third step that the bottle went into the wrong filler? That's where you stop. Do not go on to stage five.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, around North Boarhunt?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start your motor. On plenty of diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so don't switch the vehicle on. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where the fuel is pulled from — so do not top up with diesel to dilute it.
If you are on a forecourt, whether it is the Shell or the Sainsbury's, ask the staff to help push the vehicle clear of the petrol pump. On your own drive in North Boarhunt? So the car stays put.
Already run? Stop when it is safe, then switch off. The next exit means where to leave if you are on the M27, under 3 miles from North Boarhunt. Roughly how far did it go? Crossing North Boarhunt is less a job than a run of under 10 miles to Portsmouth, and so say.
When our engineers get there in North Boarhunt, what occurs?
Our engineers come to the car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside Newtown Soberton Infant School, close to Boarhunt Parish Hall or on your own drive. Both the work and our price rest on three answers — which fluid, which amount, and if it's run — so our technicians ask. No one heads out before you have had our quote by phone.
The fuel system is then flushed thoroughly, after that tank is drained. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't wash out on its own — which is why that counts more with AdBlue than with petrol. Once the fuel filter has been cleaned — or renewed, if required — fresh diesel is added, and then the vehicle gets tested. We do not leave until it has been fired up and is running correctly.
Most jobs are finished in roughly half an hour after we get there, provided your motor hasn't run — and the pumps our technicians use are safe on a live forecourt and quiet at night outside a house. The insurer usually wants the engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and both are yours once the job is done. Payment is on the day, with no money upfront. It is worth looking at your insurance while we travel to you: misfuelling cover is included with plenty of policies.
About North Boarhunt, briefly
North Boarhunt is a small village in Hampshire, situated near the coast and approximately 6.9 miles from Portsmouth. North Boarhunt has a population of around 550 people and is characterized by predominantly detached housing. North Boarhunt sits at an elevation of 33 metres, close to nearby places such as Mellishes Bottom and Hundred Acres. North Boarhunt is also near Wickham Common, a local area of natural interest.
AdBlue drains around North Boarhunt, and Hampshire beyond
Being a coastal village, North Boarhunt has the same vans as surrounding areas — Hundred Acres, Wickham Common — all the way through PO postcodes and the wider area around them. Quote a postcode that starts PO17 6, and the van arrives fastest.
The car does not need to move. Anywhere it stands — beside St. Nicholas, Boarhunt, on a lay-by heading to The Withy Bed, at home — that is where it is emptied. If you're close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of Holy Trinity Church, ring and ask instead of assuming.
In short, for North Boarhunt drivers
Tip no AdBlue until you've read the cap. Even so AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can empty it wherever it is, anywhere around Hampshire: keep it off then call 0333 366 0103.