Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Prees Higher Heath: Why It Happens
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the engine and your ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103. Caught before the engine runs, it is normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is around Prees Higher Heath. Not happened yet? Below, the page covers the why it takes place and the ways to avoid it altogether.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel car need its own filler?
Diesel goes to your engine — but plenty of current diesels seen about Prees Higher Heath and Lighteach hold another liquid too. Its own tank keeps it, and from there it is sent to your exhaust, and there spraying cleans the fumes.
Each tank has its own filler. Some motors put the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; plenty more have both together behind one flap. Diesel gets filled on each filling station visit, again and again. Someone who has to stop and work out where it goes normally tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less regularly. The mistake grows in the gap between them.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank happen around Prees Higher Heath?
Rarely is it carelessness: usually three things coincide.
Hurry follows from the warning. Your car warns you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank sends the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up gets done quickly, before work on a drive off Twemlows Avenue, or heading home in the car park outside the pub in the village.
New-to-you cars come second, too. Hire cars, new vehicles and company cars place their fillers differently, and habit goes for the cap it used on the old one.
Lastly, the spout fits: diesel filler or AdBlue one, it goes in just as readily, and once the tip begins, nothing stops it. Whether it occurs in Upper College or the middle of Prees Higher Heath, it is the same few seconds.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
Check these first, at a forecourt in Prees Higher Heath or a drive out in Sandford. Seconds, that's all.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap normally is not. Read it rather than going by where it sits.
- Look at the size: the smaller neck is, on many cars, the AdBlue one.
- Check inside your fuel flap: plenty of vehicles have a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- Can't find it next to your diesel inlet? Then check below the bonnet or in the boot — the handbook will say which.
- Whoever had it before will know. Ask when you pick up a hire car or company car — at Prees's car park, perhaps — rather than once the light appears.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around Shropshire that is.
- Switch off once parked — flat ground, engine stopped, and not in a rush beside Heathwood Road at the roadside.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and it does the trick.
- Both under a single flap? Then make sure the lid on the diesel filler is still closed ahead of lifting the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check once more. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the car.
Find at stage two or three that it's already gone into your diesel side? Then stop just there. Never carry on to step five.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, in Prees Higher Heath?
Do not start the motor: that's how the short order of things starts. Keep your ignition off as well, since on many diesels switching it on alone runs the pump. Topping up with diesel will not dilute it: instead, AdBlue drops to the base of that tank, right where the fuel is drawn from.
The staff at Esso, Texaco or another forecourt will normally help to push your car away if asked. Leave it where it is if you're on your own driveway around Prees Higher Heath.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if the engine has already run. On the M6, under 15 miles from Prees Higher Heath, that means the next junction. A short hop across Prees Higher Heath is a smaller job than a run towards Wrexham, under 25 miles away, so tell us roughly how far it went.
What happens when our technicians turn up around Prees Higher Heath
The van reaches your car wherever it has come to rest — your own drive, beside Higher Heath Village Hall, or outside Prees CofE Primary School. The replies settle the work and the price, so we ask what got in, roughly how much, and whether it's run. On the phone call itself, you are told the price — ahead of anything else.
After that: draining, then a full flush of the whole 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. The fuel filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the vehicle is tested. We do not leave until it has been fired up and is running properly.
Unstarted cars usually mean a half-hour visit after arrival. The kit is fine on a busy filling station, and hushed enough for a driveway late at night. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it is worth checking yours whilst we're on the way.
About Prees Higher Heath, briefly
Prees Higher Heath is a small village in Shropshire, situated in the English countryside at an elevation of 92 metres. Prees Higher Heath lies near several other local places, including Upper College, Steel Heath, and Prees Heath, and is approximately 16.9 miles from Wrexham. Prees Higher Heath has a population of around 604 people, predominantly living in detached houses.
AdBlue drains across Shropshire, Prees Higher Heath included
Prees Higher Heath is a rural village, and our teams that cover it also work the towns near it, Steel Heath and Prees Heath among them, across the SY postcode area. Give a postcode beginning SY13 2, and our van gets there fastest.
No need to shift your car. Wherever it sits — beside Manor Place Community Centre, on a lay-by heading to Corner Field, on a drive — that is where it gets emptied. Tricky to explain, like the back of Prees Baptist Church? Close to a county line? Asking beats assuming, and so ring.
The short version for Prees Higher Heath drivers
Read the cap before you tip. Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, anywhere across Shropshire, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank all the same — and so leave the vehicle off and ring 0333 366 0103.