Pewsey Wharf: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? Then set this page aside a moment, leave your ignition and motor off, then call 0333 366 0103. Caught before your engine runs, it's normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is around Pewsey Wharf. Reading in advance? In that case the rest explains why it comes about and what to stop it ever happening.
AdBlue in a diesel car: two tanks, two fillers
Plenty of modern diesels in Wilcot, as well as Pewsey Wharf, run on two fluids; the engine gets only your diesel. Your exhaust, not your motor, is where AdBlue goes: sprayed into the fumes to clean it, from a separate tank.
There is a filler for every tank. Other vehicles keep the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; plenty of others have both side by side under one flap. Diesel gets filled on every filling station visit, week in, week out. The AdBlue side is filled far less frequently, usually from a bottle, and normally by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. It is in the gap that the error lives.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank take place around Pewsey Wharf?
Seldom is it carelessness: usually three things coincide.
Hurry comes from the warning. The car warns you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank sends it into limp mode — so the top-up gets done in a rush, before work on a drive off A345, or heading home in the car park at The Waterfront.
The old car's cap is where your hand goes — yet a rental car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers somewhere else. That's a second thing: an unfamiliar car.
Nothing halts the tip after it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Pewsey Wharf or out in Oare.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Look at these first, on a forecourt around Pewsey Wharf or a driveway out in Pewsey. Seconds, that's all.
- Position misleads; the cap does not. AdBlue caps tend to be blue or bear the name "AdBlue" — diesel caps normally don't.
- On plenty of cars, size gives it away: AdBlue has the smaller filler neck.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Many motors say there which fuel goes where.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that's where your filler sits if it is not by the diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- Whoever had it before will know. Check as you pick up a hire car or fleet car — from Pewsey's car park, say — not when the warning appears.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever in Wiltshire that is.
- Turn off after you park — level ground, engine stopped, and never in a rush beside The Wharf at the roadside.
- Locate the AdBlue filler, read the cap, and say the word "AdBlue" aloud while you unscrew it. It sounds daft. It works.
- The diesel cap remains on. Where the two share a flap, make sure it's closed before the bottle comes up.
- Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap, then look again — confirm the diesel filler remained shut the whole time. After that, start your car.
Discover during the second or third stage that the bottle went in the diesel tank? That's where you stop. Step five stays off limits.
Pewsey Wharf: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Short list, then. Top of it: your motor stays off. The fuel pump starts on plenty of diesels the moment your ignition is switched on — and so keep it off. Thinning it with extra diesel fails, since AdBlue settles to the bottom rather than blending — and that's where the fuel is drawn from.
The staff at Esso, JET or another forecourt will normally lend a hand pushing the vehicle clear if you ask. Your own drive in Pewsey Wharf is the place it should stay.
Where your motor has been run by now, pull over somewhere safe and turn the car off. The next exit means where to come off if you're on the M4, under 15 miles from Pewsey Wharf. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Salisbury, under 25 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Pewsey Wharf.
Our arrival in Pewsey Wharf, and what occurs next
The van comes to the car anywhere it stopped — your own driveway, beside All Saints, or outside Pewsey Primary School. Those replies determine the work and the price, so we ask what got in, about how much, and whether it's run. During the call itself, you hear our price — before anything else.
Then the tank is cleared and the system purged thoroughly. More than with petrol, it matters with AdBlue: crystals form, certain metals are attacked, and none of that clears away on its own, however long it sits. Filter cleaned or, if needed, replaced; clean diesel in; then a check of your vehicle. The engine is started next and checked to be sure it runs smoothly, all before our engineers go.
Unrun vehicles mostly need a half-hour visit after arrival. The kit is safe on a live filling station, and quiet enough for a driveway after dark. Your insurer will ask for an engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and both are yours at the end. Payment comes on the day, with no money upfront. Wrong-fuel cover is included in plenty of insurance policies — and so use the wait to check yours.
About Pewsey Wharf, for a moment
Pewsey Wharf is a locality situated on the banks of the Kennet and Avon Canal in Wiltshire, with a mix of detached homes and rural scenery. Pewsey Wharf sits at an elevation of 134 metres, near the villages of Oare and East Stowell. Pewsey Wharf is located close to the North Wessex Downs, an area of outstanding natural beauty. Pewsey Wharf has a small population of around 511 residents.
AdBlue drains around Pewsey Wharf and across Wiltshire
Pewsey Wharf is a small village, and the vans that cover it also work the places near it, East Stowell and Knowle among them, across the SN postcode area. Fastest of all: give a SN9 5 postcode for the van.
No need to shift your car. Anywhere it stands — near Wilcot Village Hall, in a layby en route to Wilcot Cricket Club, at home — that is where it gets drained. If you are close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Wilcot War Memorial, ring and ask rather than assuming.
In short, for Pewsey Wharf drivers
Tip no AdBlue till you have read the cap. Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, anywhere across Wiltshire, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank regardless — so leave the vehicle off then phone 0333 366 0103.