Pray Heath: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? In that case put this page down for now, leave the ignition and motor off, and ring 0333 366 0103. In Pray Heath, finding it before the motor runs normally leaves a drain and a thorough flush on the spot. The rest of this page covers why it happens and how to ensure it doesn't — useful if you are reading ahead of time.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel car need its own filler?
Plenty of newer diesels in Westfield, as well as Pray Heath, carry on two liquids; the engine gets just the diesel. AdBlue's own tank keeps it, and from there it is sent to the exhaust, and there spraying treats the gas.
There is a filler for each tank. Under one flap, side by side: that is the arrangement on many vehicles. On others, AdBlue's filler sits beneath the bonnet or in the boot instead. Diesel goes in on each forecourt call-out, again and again. Rarely topped up, AdBlue normally goes in out of a bottle, poured by a driver who has to stop and think which cap it needs. The error lives in that gap.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank happen in Pray Heath?
Seldom is it carelessness: normally three things coincide.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a message from the vehicle, and running out leads to limp mode — hence a rushed top-up, perhaps before work off Prey Heath Close, perhaps outside Drumming Snipe on the way home that evening.
Unfamiliar vehicles come next, as well. Hire cars, new cars and company cars place their fillers in new places, and the hand reaches for the cap used on the old one.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, and so nothing stops the tip after it has started. It takes seconds, whether out in Pyle Hill or bang in the heart of Pray Heath.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
Look at these first, on a forecourt around Pray Heath or a driveway out in Sutton Green. A few seconds, that's all.
- Read the cap instead of going by where it sits: AdBlue ones are commonly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps normally are not.
- Check the size: the smaller filler neck is, on plenty of motors, the AdBlue one.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Plenty of vehicles say there which fuel goes where.
- Can't find it next to your diesel inlet? Then look beneath the bonnet or inside your boot — the owner's manual says which.
- The previous driver knows. Ask when you pick up a hire car or company car — from Worplesdon's car park, perhaps — rather than when the light appears.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
The day the light goes on, wherever across Surrey, use this routine.
- Stop on level, engine off, with time in hand — never hurried on the side of Prey Heath Road.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it does the trick.
- The diesel cap remains on. When both sit under a flap, make sure it's shut before lifting the bottle.
- Finish once the tank fills or the bottle is empty; until then, tip gently through the built-in spout.
- Close the cap and check again. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
Find during the second or third step that AdBlue went into the wrong filler? That is where you stop. Stage five stays off limits.
Pray Heath: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Brief order, then. Top of that: your motor stays off. Don't switch the ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Thinning it with more diesel fails, because AdBlue settles to the bottom instead of mixing — and that's where your fuel is sucked from.
If you're on a forecourt, whether it's the Shell or the Esso, ask the staff to help roll the car away from the pump. Your own drive in Pray Heath is the place it should stay.
If your engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. Leave the M25 — under 10 miles out of Pray Heath — at the first junction. Distance counts — a quick hop across Pray Heath makes a smaller job than heading under 25 miles to Westminster — so tell us about how far it went.
When our technicians arrive around Pray Heath, what happens?
We come to the car wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside Westfield Primary School, close to Mayford Village Hall or on your own driveway. The answers settle the work and our price, and so our engineers ask what was put in, roughly how much, and whether it has run. The price is given on the call, ahead of any van leaving.
The fuel system is then purged thoroughly, after your tank is emptied. Much more than with petrol, it matters with AdBlue: crystals form, some metals corrode, and nothing washes out unaided, however long it sits. The filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the car is tested. The engine is fired up next and checked to make sure it runs correctly, all before our technicians go.
Unrun vehicles mostly need a half-hour visit after arrival. The equipment is safe on a busy filling station, and quiet enough for a residential street after dark. Paying happens on the day, not upfront, and you are given the paperwork your insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Pray Heath itself
Pray Heath is a suburban area in Surrey, situated near the River Wey and characterised by its detached housing stock. Pray Heath sits at an elevation of 34 metres, with nearby Pyle Hill and Mayford providing scenic views. Pray Heath is located close to the villages of Smarts Heath and Mayford, and is approximately 24 miles from central London. Pray Heath remains a quiet residential community with a population of around 689 people.
Pray Heath and Surrey: AdBlue drains across the area
Mayford and Smarts Heath are among the places near Pray Heath, a residential suburb, that the same vans cover, over GU postcodes. Our van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting GU22 0.
Moving your car isn't needed. The drain takes place on the spot, be it a drive, a street by Emmanuel Church, or a lay-by towards Prey Heath. Awkward to pin down, like the back of All Souls, Sutton Green? Close to a border? Checking is better than assuming, and so ring.
For Pray Heath people, the short version
Pour nothing until you have read the cap. AdBlue in the diesel tank after all? Leave it switched off and call 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, across Surrey.