AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Perry Common: Why It Occurs and How to Prevent It
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the motor and the ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103. A drain and a full flush, carried out right where your car sits around Perry Common, is normally what it needs if found before the motor runs. The remainder of this page covers why it takes place and how to ensure it doesn't — handy if you are reading before it has happened.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
Many modern diesels around Stockland Green, as well as Perry Common, run on two liquids; the engine takes only the diesel. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into your exhaust gas to clean it.
Separate tanks, different fillers. Many of cars share a single flap for both, while others put the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is topped up at the pump all the time. The AdBlue side is filled far less regularly, normally from a bottle, and usually by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. That gap is where the error lives.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank takes place around Perry Common
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
Hurry comes from the warning. The vehicle warns you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank puts the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up happens in a rush, before work on a driveway off Witton Lodge Road, or on the way home in the car park at The Greyhound.
New-to-you vehicles come next, as well. Rentals, new motors and company cars put their fillers in new places, and habit goes for the cap it used on the old one.
A spout-topped bottle finds no resistance at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. So the tip, once begun, carries on. Oscott or the heart of Perry Common: it takes the same few seconds either way.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
Look at these first, on a forecourt in Perry Common or a driveway out in New Oscott. Seconds, that's all.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is often blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap usually isn't. Read it instead of going by position.
- The size. On many cars the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Lift the flap and check for a label — plenty of motors mark which belongs in which inlet right there.
- The handbook. If your filler is not by your diesel cap, it's in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Whoever had it before knows. Check as you collect a hire car or fleet car — from Erdington's car park, perhaps — rather than once the warning appears.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
The day the light comes on, anywhere in West Midlands, follow this routine.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with your engine running, and not in a rush on the side of Enderby Road.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after finding the AdBlue filler and reading it. Daft, yes, yet it works.
- The diesel cap stays on. When both sit under a flap, make sure it's closed before the bottle comes up.
- Stop once your tank fills or the bottle runs dry; until then, tip slowly using its own spout.
- Close the cap and check again. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start your car.
Spot at step two or three that it has already gone into your diesel side? Then stop right there. Step five is out.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Perry Common?
The short order of things, beginning with no starting the motor. The fuel pump runs on plenty of diesels the moment your ignition is switched on — so leave it off. Don't top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where your fuel is sucked from.
The staff at BP, Tesco or another forecourt will usually help pushing your car away if you ask. If you are on your own driveway in Perry Common, leave it where it stands.
If the engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. The next exit is the place to leave when you're on the M6, under 3 miles from Perry Common. Roughly how far did it go? Crossing Perry Common is smaller work than a trip of under 5 miles to Birmingham, so tell us.
Perry Common: what happens when our technicians get there
Outside Story Wood School, near St Martin's Church Centre or on your own driveway: wherever the car has stopped, we come to it. Which fluid got in, the quantity, and if it ran: our technicians ask because those replies decide the work and quote. During the call itself, you are told the price — before dispatch.
Emptying your tank comes next, then a thorough flush of the fuel system. With AdBlue that matters more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not wash out on its own. Once the filter has been cleaned — or renewed, if required — clean diesel is added, and finally the vehicle is tested. Before leaving, our engineers start the engine and check that it's running properly.
If the engine has not 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 many insurance policies — so use the wait to look at yours.
About Perry Common and where it is
Perry Common is a suburban area in the West Midlands, situated lakeside with nearby Oscott, Short Heath, and Upper Witton. Perry Common has a population of around 7703 people and is characterised by semi-detached housing. Perry Common is located approximately 4.3 miles from Birmingham and 102.6 miles from London, at an elevation of 123 metres. Perry Common forms part of the larger Birmingham urban area, with its residents benefiting from proximity to the city's amenities.
Perry Common and West Midlands: AdBlue drains across the area
Perry Common is a residential suburb, and our teams that cover it also work the towns around it, Short Heath and Upper Witton among them, across the B postcode area. A postcode starting B23 5 gets our van to you fastest.
Moving the vehicle is not needed. Our engineers drain it where it is — a side street near Perry Common Community Centre, a lay-by on the way to Perry Common Ring, a drive. If you are near a border, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of Perry Common Pentecostal Church, ring and ask instead of guessing.
In short, for Perry Common motorists
First, the cap; after that, the pour. AdBlue in your diesel tank regardless? Leave it switched off then phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, across West Midlands.