AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Park Hill: How It Happens and How to Prevent It
Keep the engine and ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103 now — reading can wait if AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Normally, when your engine has not turned, it is drained and thoroughly rinsed where your vehicle is in Park Hill. The remainder of this page covers why it happens and how to make sure it does not — handy if you are reading ahead of time.
AdBlue in a diesel car, and its separate tank
No single liquid but two: that's what plenty of newer diesels near Park Hill and Crackley carry, with diesel feeding the motor. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into your exhaust gas to clean it.
Different tanks, different fillers. Some motors put the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; plenty more have both side by side behind one flap. Topping up your diesel side at the pump goes on constantly. Far less frequently, the AdBlue side is filled — normally from a bottle, by someone thinking about where it goes. It's in the gap that the error lives.
Park Hill: how AdBlue in the diesel tank happens
Seldom is it carelessness: normally three things coincide.
On a drive off Ilam Park before work, or in the car park at The Tiltyard on the way home: that is where the hurried top-up happens. Why the rush? As AdBlue runs low the car warns you, and if it is empty, limp mode kicks in.
New-to-you cars come next, as well. Hire cars, new motors and company vehicles place their fillers differently, and habit reaches for the cap used on the old one.
A spouted bottle meets no resistance at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. And so the tip, after begun, keeps on. Whether it occurs in Whitemoor or the middle of Park Hill, it is the same few seconds.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
A few seconds is all these take — so check them before you pour anything, on a driveway in Ladyes Hills or a forecourt around Park Hill.
- Check the cap instead of going by position: AdBlue caps are commonly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones normally are not.
- Look at the size: the smaller neck is, on plenty of motors, the AdBlue one.
- Lift the filler flap and check for a label — many cars mark which goes in each inlet just there.
- The handbook. If the filler isn't by your diesel cap, it's in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Ask the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — if you collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside Kenilworth.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever in Warwickshire that is.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with your motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Leyes Lane.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once you find the AdBlue filler and read it. Daft, perhaps, but it does the trick.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave the car on.
- Gently does it, through the bottle's own spout, until it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Shut the cap, then look again — confirm your diesel filler remained shut the whole time. Only then, start the vehicle.
Find at the second or third stage that the bottle went in the diesel tank? That is where you stop. Never go on to step five.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Park Hill?
Do not start your engine: that's where the short order of things starts. Do not switch your ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Don't top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where your fuel is sucked from.
Ask the staff to help roll your car away from the petrol pump if you are at a forecourt — the Esso, the Texaco or somewhere else. On your own drive around Park Hill? Then the car remains put.
Already started? Stop once it's safe, then turn off. Leave the M40 — under 10 miles out of Park Hill — at the next exit. About how far did it go? Crossing Park Hill is less work than a run of under 5 miles towards Coventry, so say.
What happens when we get there around Park Hill
Anywhere the car came to rest, be it by Park Hill Junior School, near St. Barnabas Church or on your own drive, the van comes to it. Those answers determine this work and the quote, so our technicians ask what went in, roughly how much, and whether it has run. No one sets off until you have heard the price by phone.
The fuel system is then cleaned thoroughly, once the tank is emptied. More than with petrol, it counts with AdBlue: the crystals build up, certain metals corrode, and nothing washes away unaided, no matter how long it is left. Once your filter has been cleaned — or replaced, if needed — fresh diesel is added, and finally your car is tested. We do not go until it has been started and is running correctly.
Most jobs are done in roughly half an hour once our engineers get there, provided your motor has not run — and the pumps we use are safe on a live forecourt yet quiet at night outside a house. The insurer will ask for the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and both are yours at the end. Payment comes on the day, with no deposit. It's worth checking your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover comes with plenty of policies.
About Park Hill and where it is
Park Hill is a suburban area in Warwickshire, situated near the River Sowe and close to the city of Coventry. Park Hill sits at an elevation of 84 metres, with detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation in the area. Park Hill is located near other residential areas, including Whitemoor, Windy Arbour, and Mill End, and is approximately 84 miles from London.
AdBlue drains in Park Hill and across Warwickshire
Throughout CV postcodes, our vans covering Park Hill — a residential suburb — work the surrounding spots too, Mill End and Windy Arbour among them. A postcode starting CV8 2 gets the van to you fastest.
Your car stays where it is. Our engineers drain it where it is — a side street near Kenilworth Methodist Church, a lay-by on the way to Knowle Hill Nature Reserve, a drive. If you're near a border, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Priory Theatre, ring and ask rather than guessing.
The short version for Park Hill drivers
First, the cap; then, the tip. Even so AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can drain it wherever it stands, wherever around Warwickshire: keep the car off then ring 0333 366 0103.