Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Oatlands Park: Why It Occurs
Stop reading a minute when the diesel tank already holds AdBlue in it: ignition off, motor off, then ring 0333 366 0103. Usually, if the motor hasn't turned, it is drained and fully purged where your vehicle is in Oatlands Park. Not happened yet? Below, the rest of the page covers the why it takes place and the ways to prevent it for good.
AdBlue in a diesel car, and its separate tank
Diesel feeds the motor — yet many newer diesels seen about Oatlands Park and Hamhaugh Island carry another liquid as well. AdBlue goes to the exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Each tank has its own filler. Other motors put the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; a lot of others have the two together under one flap. At the pump, your diesel side gets filled constantly. Seldom topped up, AdBlue normally comes from a bottle, poured by a driver who must stop and think what cap to use. The slip lives in that gap.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank occurs around Oatlands Park
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a warning from the car, and running dry leads to limp mode — hence a rushed top-up, perhaps before work off Shewens Road, perhaps outside The Flintgate on the way home that evening.
Then the car is unfamiliar. A hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and your hand gets to for the cap it would have used on the old one.
A spouted bottle finds no resistance at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. So the pour, once begun, carries on. Whether it takes place in Weybridge or the middle of Oatlands Park, it's the same few seconds.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Check these first, at a forecourt around Oatlands Park or a driveway over in Lower Halliford. A few seconds, no more.
- Where it sits can mislead; the cap doesn't. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or carry the word "AdBlue" — diesel caps normally do not.
- On many vehicles, size tells: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- A label inside your fuel flap frequently shows which fuel goes where, on many motors. Look for it.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that is where the filler is if it is not by your diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- The person who drove the car last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park at Weybridge, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
Wherever across Surrey the light comes on, this is a routine for the day.
- Turn off after you park — level ground, engine stopped, and not rushed beside Kemble Close at the roadside.
- Daft as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew the cap works — once you've located your filler and read the cap.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave it on.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Only after that, start the car: close the cap, check a second time, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
Find at stage two or three that it has already gone into the diesel side? So stop just there. Leave out step five entirely.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Oatlands Park?
Don't start your motor: that is how the short order of things starts. The fuel pump starts on plenty of diesels as soon as your ignition goes on — so leave it off. Filling up with diesel won't thin it: instead, AdBlue drops to the base of that tank, right where the fuel is taken from.
If you are on a forecourt, whether it is the Shell or the Esso, ask the attendants to help roll your car clear of the pump. Leave it where it is if you're on your own drive in Oatlands Park.
Already run? Stop when it is sensible, then turn off. Come off the M3 — under 3 miles out of Oatlands Park — at the next exit. A short hop across Oatlands Park is a smaller job than a run towards Westminster, under 25 miles away, and so tell us roughly how far it went.
When our technicians arrive around Oatlands Park, what occurs?
The van comes to the vehicle wherever it stopped — your own drive, near United Reformed Church, or outside Oatlands School. Our engineers ask what went in, roughly how much, and if it has run, because those answers decide the work and our quote. That quote is given over the phone, before any van leaves.
After that: draining, then a full flush of the entire system. Not like petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and eats at some fuel-system metals, and none of that washes away by itself. Hence it matters more. The fuel filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the vehicle is tested. Before leaving, we start it and confirm that it's running properly.
Unrun vehicles mostly need a half-hour job after the moment we arrive. The kit is fine on a busy forecourt, and quiet enough for a driveway late at night. The insurer usually wants an engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and both are yours once this job is done. Payment is on the day, with no deposit. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Oatlands Park and where it is
Oatlands Park is a suburban area in Surrey, situated on the riverside with an elevation of around 30 metres. Oatlands Park lies near the towns of Weybridge and Ashley Park, and is close to Lock Island. Oatlands Park has a population of approximately 5348 people and is characterised by predominantly detached housing. Oatlands Park is located 16.3 miles from London, with Westminster being the nearest city at 16.1 miles away.
AdBlue drains around Oatlands Park and across Surrey
Oatlands Park is a residential suburb, and our vans that cover it also work the towns near it, Ashley Park and Lock Island among them, across the KT postcode area. Our van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting KT13 9.
Your car remains put. Draining takes place right there, be it a drive, a road by St Mary, Oatlands, or a layby on the way to Weybridge Rifle & Pistol Club. Ring and ask rather than guessing if you're close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of Hanger Hill War Memorial.
For Oatlands Park drivers, the short version
First, the cap; after that, the pour. Still AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will empty it where it is, wherever around Surrey: keep the car off and ring 0333 366 0103.