AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Paynters Lane End: How It Happens and How to Prevent It
Pause here for a moment when the diesel tank already holds AdBlue in it: ignition off, motor off, and call 0333 366 0103. Usually, if your motor hasn't turned, it is drained and thoroughly cleaned where the car is around Paynters Lane End. Not happened yet? Further down, the page explains the why it occurs and the ways to prevent it for good.
AdBlue in a diesel motor: two tanks, two fillers
Many modern diesels on the roads around Paynters Lane End and Tolgus Mount carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the engine. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Each tank comes with one filler of its own. Under one flap, side by side: that's the arrangement on a lot of vehicles. On others, AdBlue's filler sits under the bonnet or in your boot instead. Diesel gets filled on each forecourt visit, again and again. Rarely filled, AdBlue usually comes from a bottle, poured by someone who must stop and think which cap to use. The mistake grows in the gap between them.
Paynters Lane End: how AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs
Seldom is it carelessness: usually three things coincide.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and if it runs out altogether, your vehicle drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Penwartha Road before work, or in the car park at The Robartes Arms on the way home.
Then your car is strange. A hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and the hand gets to for the cap it would have used on the old one.
Third, the spout fits: a diesel filler or AdBlue one, it slides in as readily, and once the tip begins, no part halts it. Illogan or the heart of Paynters Lane End: it is the same few seconds either way.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Whether a Paynters Lane End forecourt or a drive out in Nance, take a few seconds over these before any is poured in.
- Position misleads; the cap does not. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or bear the name "AdBlue" — diesel caps normally do not.
- Plenty of motors give AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- A label inside your fuel flap often says which fuel goes where, on plenty of cars. Check for it.
- Can't see it beside the diesel inlet? Then check below the bonnet or in your boot — the owner's manual says which.
- Check with the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — when you pick up a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside Redruth.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
Anywhere across Cornwall the light comes on, here is a routine for the day.
- Not in a rush on the side of Lamanva Road, not on a slope, not with the motor running: park then switch off first.
- Locate the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and say the name "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew it. It sounds daft. It does the trick.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Finish once that tank is topped up or the bottle runs dry; before that, tip gently through the built-in spout.
- Before starting your car, shut the cap and look again that your diesel cap never came off.
Discover at the second or third step that the bottle went into the diesel filler? That is where you stop. Do not go on to step five.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Paynters Lane End?
The short order of things, starting with not starting the engine. On plenty of diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so do not switch it on. Topping up with diesel will not dilute it: rather than mixing, AdBlue sinks to the bottom of your tank, right where fuel is taken from.
If you are at a forecourt, whether it is the Morrisons or the Texaco, ask the attendants to help roll your car away from the petrol pump. Your own drive in Paynters Lane End is where it stays.
Already run? Pull over once it is sensible, then turn off. Come off the M5 — over 50 miles out of Paynters Lane End — at the first exit. About how far did it go? Crossing Paynters Lane End is smaller work than a run of under 10 miles to Truro, so say.
Paynters Lane End: what happens when our technicians get there
By Illogan School, near Paynters Lane End Methodist Church or on your own driveway: wherever the car has stopped, we come to it. Which liquid was put in, the amount, and whether it ran: our technicians ask since the replies set the work and price. No one heads out before you've heard our price over the phone.
Your system is then cleaned thoroughly, once your tank is cleared. Much more than with petrol, it matters with AdBlue: the crystals form, certain metals are attacked, and nothing clears out unaided, no matter how long it is left. Testing comes last: before that, clean diesel goes in, and the filter is flushed or replaced as needed. The engine is fired up next and checked to be sure it runs correctly, all before we head off.
If the motor hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Misfuelling cover is included in plenty of insurance policies — so use the wait to check yours.
About Paynters Lane End
Paynters Lane End is a coastal locality in Cornwall, situated near the city of Truro and close to the nearby places of Illogan, West Tolgus, and Sparnon Gate. Paynters Lane End has a population of around 1402 people and is characterised by predominantly detached housing. Paynters Lane End sits at an elevation of 80 metres, with its coastal setting influencing the local environment. Paynters Lane End is located approximately 240 miles from London, making it a relatively remote part of England.
Paynters Lane End and Cornwall: AdBlue drains across the area
Being a coastal area, Paynters Lane End shares its vans nearby places — West Tolgus, Sparnon Gate — right across TR postcodes and the wider area beyond. Quickest of all: quote a TR16 4 postcode to the van.
The car does not need to shift. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street near St Illogan, a lay-by on the way to Oxland Park, a driveway. If you are close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of Illogan Village Hall, ring and ask instead of assuming.
In short, for Paynters Lane End drivers
First, the cap; after that, the pour. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, anywhere in Cornwall, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank regardless — and so leave it off then phone 0333 366 0103.