Why It Occurs and How to Prevent It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Orton Longueville
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? Then set this page down for now, keep your ignition and motor off, then call 0333 366 0103. A drain and a full flush, done just where the car sits around Orton Longueville, is normally what it takes if found before the motor runs. Here before the event? Then what follows covers how it happens and how to prevent it ever happening.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel motor
Not one fluid but two: that's what many modern diesels around Orton Longueville and Hampton Hargate carry, with diesel feeding your motor. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into the exhaust stream and cleans it.
Different tanks, different fillers. Under one flap, next to each other: that's the arrangement on a lot of vehicles. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler sits under the bonnet or in the boot instead. Topping up your diesel side at the pump goes on constantly. Far less frequently, the AdBlue side gets filled — normally from a bottle, by someone thinking about where it goes. That gap is where the mistake lives.
Orton Longueville: how AdBlue in your diesel tank takes place
It's hardly ever carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
First, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a message from the car, and letting it run out leads to limp mode — hence a rushed top-up, maybe before work off Robert Rayner Close, or at The Cross Keys on the way home after work.
Then, the hand reaches for the cap it knew on the old car — since a rental car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers somewhere your last one didn't.
A spouted bottle meets no resistance at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. And so the pour, after begun, carries on. Woodston or the heart of Orton Longueville: it is the same few seconds either way.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
A couple of seconds is all these take — so run through them before you tip anything, on a driveway in Old Fletton or a forecourt in Orton Longueville.
- Position misleads; the cap does not. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or bear the word "AdBlue" — diesel caps usually don't.
- Check the size: the smaller filler neck is, on plenty of motors, the AdBlue one.
- Lift the filler flap and look for a label — plenty of motors mark what goes in which filler just there.
- Cannot find it next to your diesel inlet? In that case check below the bonnet or inside your boot — the owner's manual says which.
- Collecting a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park outside Peterborough? Ask the person who drove the car last before leaving, not once the light goes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever in Cambridgeshire that is.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with your motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Shrewsbury Avenue.
- Locate the AdBlue filler, read the cap, and say the name "AdBlue" out loud as unscrewing it. It seems silly. It works.
- Both under one flap? So make sure the lid on the diesel filler stays closed before lifting the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Before starting your car, close the cap and look again that the diesel cap never opened off.
Find at step two or three that it's already gone into the diesel side? Then stop just there. Stage five is off limits.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, around Orton Longueville?
What follows is a short order of things, beginning with not starting your motor. Do not switch the ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is drawn from — so don't top up with diesel to thin it.
If you are on a forecourt, whether it's the Esso or the Tesco, ask the attendants to help push the car clear of the petrol pump. If you are on your own driveway in Orton Longueville, leave the vehicle where it is.
Already started? Pull over when it's safe, then switch off. Leave the A1(M) — under 3 miles out of Orton Longueville — at the next junction. About how far did it go? Crossing Orton Longueville is less work than a run of under 3 miles to Peterborough, and so tell us.
What takes place when we arrive around Orton Longueville
The van reaches the car anywhere it has come to rest — your own driveway, beside Valley Park Centre, or by Nene Valley Primary School. We ask what was put in, about how much, and if it's run, since the replies determine the work and the price. No one heads out until you've heard our price by phone.
Next: a drain, then a full flush of the whole system. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not wash out on its own — which is why the flush matters more with AdBlue than with petrol. Filter cleaned or, where needed, swapped; clean diesel in; and then a test of your vehicle. Then our engineers start the engine and confirm it runs smoothly before leaving.
Most jobs are done in about half an hour after our engineers get there, as long as the motor hasn't run — and the pumps our engineers use are safe on a busy forecourt and quiet at night outside a house. No money upfront; you settle up on the day. At the end, the VAT invoice and the report from the engineer are handed to you for your insurer. Wrong-fuel cover is part of plenty of insurance policies — and so use the wait to look at yours.
About Orton Longueville and where it is
Orton Longueville is a suburban area located near Peterborough in Cambridgeshire, sitting at an elevation of 18 metres in the eastern part of England. Orton Longueville is characterised by its predominantly detached housing stock and is situated close to nearby places such as Woodston and New Fletton. Orton Longueville has a population of approximately 4548 residents and is about 1.4 miles from the city of Peterborough. Orton Longueville is also within commuting distance of London, being around 72.7 miles away.
Orton Longueville and Cambridgeshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Throughout PE postcodes, the teams covering Orton Longueville — a residential suburb — work the nearby spots too, Orton Malborne and New Fletton included. The van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting PE2 7.
Shifting the car isn't needed. The drain takes place on the spot, be it a drive, a road by The Belsize Centre, or a layby towards Woodston Reach. Assuming doesn't help at the back of Holy Trinity, on a border, or anywhere hard to describe; phone and ask.
For Orton Longueville motorists, the short version
Always, the cap; after that, the tip. AdBlue in your diesel tank after all? Keep it off then phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, across Cambridgeshire.