AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Norton Juxta Twycross: Why It Occurs and How to Avoid It
Stop reading for a moment when your diesel tank already holds AdBlue in it: ignition off, motor off, then call 0333 366 0103. Caught before your motor runs, it is generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is around Norton Juxta Twycross. Reading in advance? Then what follows covers why it comes about and what to prevent it ever happening.
AdBlue in a diesel motor: two tanks, two fillers
Not one liquid but two: that is what plenty of newer diesels around Norton Juxta Twycross and Austrey carry, with diesel feeding your motor. The exhaust, not the motor, is where AdBlue goes: dosed into the fumes to clean them, from a separate tank.
Each tank has its own filler. Plenty of cars have a single flap for both, whereas some move the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. Diesel goes in on every forecourt call-out, week in, week out. Rarely filled, AdBlue normally comes from a bottle, tipped by a driver who must stop and think what cap to use. The mistake grows in the gap between the two.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank takes place around Norton Juxta Twycross
It's seldom carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
On a driveway off Cock Lane before work, or in the car park at the pub in the village on the way home: that's where the hurried top-up happens. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue gets low the vehicle tells you, and if it's gone, limp mode kicks in.
The old car's cap is where your hand reaches — but a rental car, a new motor or a company car keeps the fillers somewhere else. That's a second factor: a new motor.
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 pour once it has started. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Norton Juxta Twycross or out in Little Twycross.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Whether a Norton Juxta Twycross forecourt or a driveway over in Appleby Magna, spend a couple of seconds on these before any goes in.
- Where it sits misleads; the cap doesn't. AdBlue ones are often blue or bear the word "AdBlue" — diesel caps usually do not.
- The size. On plenty of motors the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Plenty of cars say there which fuel goes where.
- Cannot find it next to the diesel inlet? Then check below the bonnet or in your boot — the owner's manual will say which.
- The previous driver will know. Ask when you collect a rental or company car — from Polesworth's car park, say — not once the warning appears.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever across Leicestershire that is.
- Pull in somewhere level, motor off, with time in hand — not rushing on the side of Chapel Lane.
- Locate the AdBlue filler, read the cap, and speak the word "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew it. It seems daft. It does the trick.
- The diesel cap stays on. Where both share a flap, confirm it's closed before the bottle comes up.
- Slowly does it, through the bottle's own spout, till it is full or the bottle runs out.
- Before you start your car, close the cap and check a second time that your diesel cap was never came off.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Don't carry on to step five.
Norton Juxta Twycross: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
The short order of things, starting with not starting the engine. On many diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so do not switch the vehicle on. Do not top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where your fuel is drawn from.
The attendants at Shell, Esso or any forecourt will normally lend a hand to push the vehicle away when you ask. Leave it where it is if you are on your own drive around Norton Juxta Twycross.
If your engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. Leave the M42 — under 3 miles out of Norton Juxta Twycross — at the first exit. Roughly how far did it go? Crossing Norton Juxta Twycross is less work than a run of under 15 miles towards Lichfield, so say.
Norton Juxta Twycross: what happens when our engineers arrive
Wherever the vehicle came to rest, whether by Austrey CofE Primary School, near Holy Trinity Norton Juxta Twycross or on your own drive, the van comes to it. Those replies determine the work and the price, so our technicians ask what went in, about how much, and if it's run. The price comes on the call, ahead of any van leaving.
Then that tank is cleared and the system flushed thoroughly. Much more than with petrol, it counts here: the crystals build up, some metals are attacked, and none of that washes out on its own, no matter how long it is left. A test is last: before that, fresh diesel is added, and the fuel filter is flushed or changed if necessary. Next we start it and check it runs properly before leaving.
Most jobs are finished in roughly half an hour after our engineers get there, as long as the motor hasn't run — and the pumps our technicians use are safe on a busy forecourt and quiet after dark outside a house. Nothing upfront; you settle up that day. Afterwards, a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer go to you for your insurer. Misfuelling cover is part of many insurance policies — and so use the wait to look at yours.
About Norton Juxta Twycross, briefly
Norton Juxta Twycross is a small village in the East Midlands region of England, situated in the county of Leicestershire at an elevation of 119 metres. Norton Juxta Twycross lies near the villages of Little Twycross and Twycross, and is approximately 12.8 miles from the city of Lichfield. Norton Juxta Twycross has a population of around 509 people, predominantly living in detached houses.
Norton Juxta Twycross and Leicestershire: AdBlue drains across the area
Twycross and Appleby Parva are among the places near Norton Juxta Twycross, a rural village, that the same vans cover, throughout CV postcodes. Quote a postcode beginning CV9 3, and our van arrives fastest.
Moving your car isn't needed. Anywhere it stands — beside Norton Juxta Twycross Village Hall, on a layby en route to Orton Wood, on a drive — that is where it gets emptied. Tricky to explain, like the back of Twycross Zoo? Close to a county line? Checking is better than guessing, so phone.
The short version for Norton Juxta Twycross people
Before you tip, read the cap. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, anywhere around Leicestershire, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank all the same — so leave the car off then call 0333 366 0103.