Why It Occurs and How to Avoid It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in North Coker
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case put this page down a moment, keep the ignition and engine off, and call 0333 366 0103. Usually, when your engine has not run, it's emptied and fully rinsed where the car is around North Coker. Here in advance? Then what follows covers how it happens and what to stop it ever happening.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle, and its separate tank
Plenty of current diesels on the roads about North Coker and Holywell carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the engine. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into your exhaust gas to clean it.
There's a filler on every tank. Under one flap, next to each other: that's the arrangement on a lot of motors. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler sits under the bonnet or in your boot instead. Diesel goes in at every forecourt visit, again and again. Someone who has to stop and think where it goes normally fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less regularly. That gap is where the mistake lives.
North Coker: how AdBlue in your diesel tank occurs
Seldom is it carelessness: usually three things line up.
First, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a message from your car, and running dry leads to limp mode — hence a hurried top-up, perhaps before work off Mill Lane, perhaps outside The Helyar Arms on the way home after work.
Then, your hand reaches for the cap it knew on the old car — since a rental car, a new motor or a company car places the fillers where your last one didn't.
Nothing halts the tip after it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Whether it occurs in Burton or the middle of North Coker, it's the same few seconds.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
A few seconds is all the checks take — so run through them before you tip anything, on a driveway in Lower Key or a forecourt around North Coker.
- Position can mislead; the cap doesn't. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or carry the word "AdBlue" — diesel caps usually do not.
- Plenty of vehicles fit AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- Open the filler flap and look for a label — many vehicles show what belongs in each filler just there.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that is where the filler is if it is not by the diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- Check with the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — when you collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park at Yeovil Junction.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
Wherever in Somerset the light comes on, here is a routine for the day.
- Not in a rush on the side of Mill Close, not on a slope, not with your 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 does the trick.
- The two under a single flap? So confirm the lid on your diesel side stays shut before lifting the bottle.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Before starting your car, shut the cap and look again that your diesel cap never opened off.
Find at stage two or three that it's already gone into the diesel side? Then stop right there. Do not go on to step five.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, in North Coker?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start your motor. Don't switch the ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Thinning it with extra diesel fails, since AdBlue sinks to the bottom rather than blending — and that is where your fuel is pulled from.
Ask the attendants to help push the vehicle away from the pump if you're on a forecourt — the BP, the Morrisons or anywhere else. Leave it where it is if you're on your own drive in North Coker.
When your engine has been run already, pull over safely and switch the car off. On the M5, under 25 miles from North Coker, that means the next exit. A short hop across North Coker is a smaller job than a run towards Wells, under 25 miles away, so tell us roughly how far it went.
Our arrival around North Coker, and what occurs next
Wherever your car has stopped, whether outside East Coker Community Primary School, beside St Michael and All Angels' Church or on your own drive, the van travels to it. Both the work and the price depend on three replies — what fluid, what quantity, and if it has run — so we ask. That price comes on the call, ahead of any van leaving.
Your system is then purged thoroughly, after that tank is drained. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't wash out on its own. Once the fuel filter is cleaned — or replaced, if needed — clean diesel is added, and finally your car is tested. Before we go, our technicians start it and confirm that it is running correctly.
Unstarted vehicles mostly mean a half-hour visit from the moment we arrive. The kit is safe on a busy forecourt, and quiet enough for a residential street late at night. Your insurer usually wants the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and both are yours once this job is done. Payment is on the day, with no deposit. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it is worth checking yours whilst we're on the way.
About North Coker itself
North Coker is a village situated in the riverside setting of the River Yeo in Somerset, with an elevation of around 59 metres. North Coker lies near the villages of Burton, East Coker, and Nash, and is approximately 20 miles from the city of Wells. North Coker has a population of around 842 people, predominantly living in detached houses. North Coker is also located within commuting distance to larger cities, with London being around 117 miles away.
North Coker and Somerset: AdBlue drains across the area
Throughout BA postcodes, our teams that cover North Coker — a village — work the nearby places too, Nash and East Coker among them. Give a postcode that starts BA22 9, and our van arrives fastest.
The car stays put. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street near West Coker House, a lay-by on the way to Upper Sleight, a driveway. If you're near a border, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of West Coker Manor, ring and ask instead of guessing.
For North Coker motorists, the short version
Always, the cap; after that, the tip. Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, anywhere around Somerset, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank anyway — and so leave the vehicle off and ring 0333 366 0103.