AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Preston Plucknett: How It Occurs and How to Stop It
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the engine and your ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103. Normally, if your motor hasn't run, it is drained and thoroughly rinsed where your vehicle is around Preston Plucknett. If you are reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it doesn't.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel car
Not one fluid but two: that is what plenty of modern diesels near Preston Plucknett and Houndstone run, with diesel feeding the motor. Its own tank keeps it, and from there it goes to your exhaust, where spraying treats the gas.
There's a filler on every tank. Under one flap, next to each other: that's the layout on a lot of vehicles. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler sits beneath the bonnet or in the boot instead. Topping up your diesel side at the petrol pump goes on all the time. Rarely filled, AdBlue usually comes from a bottle, poured by someone who must stop and think what filler to use. The mistake lives in that gap.
Preston Plucknett: how AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs
Carelessness rarely explains it. Instead is three things lining up together.
Hurry follows from the warning. The car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank puts the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up happens quickly, before work on a driveway off Bell Chase, or heading home in the car park at Bell Inn.
Then, your hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old motor — since a rental car, a new vehicle or a company car places the fillers somewhere your last one did not.
A spout-topped bottle finds no obstacle at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. And so the pour, after started, carries on. It's seconds, whether out in Summerlands or right in the heart of Preston Plucknett.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Look at these before pouring, at a forecourt around Preston Plucknett or a drive over in Hollands. Seconds, no more.
- Colour and marking: an AdBlue cap is frequently blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally does not. Trust the cap, not where it sits.
- Check the size: the smaller neck is, on plenty of vehicles, the AdBlue one.
- Look inside your fuel flap: many cars have a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that is where the filler is if it is not by the diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- The previous driver knows. Ask as you collect a hire car or company car — from Yeovil Pen Mill's car park, perhaps — not when the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
Wherever across Somerset the light comes on, here is a routine for that day.
- Turn off once parked — flat ground, motor stopped, and never in a rush beside Bartletts Place at the roadside.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and it works.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave the car on.
- Gently is best, through the bottle's own spout, till it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Before starting the car, shut the cap and look again that your diesel cap was never opened off.
Find at step two or three that it has already gone into the diesel side? Then stop right there. Stage five is out.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Preston Plucknett already?
Short list, then. Top of it: the engine stays off. Keep the ignition off too, since on many diesels it alone runs the fuel pump. Topping up with diesel will not weaken it: rather than mixing, AdBlue sinks to the base of the tank, just where the fuel is drawn from.
At a forecourt — Asda, Morrisons or any other — the staff will usually help push the vehicle clear, when you ask. If you're on your own driveway in Preston Plucknett, leave it where it sits.
Already started? Pull over when it is sensible, then switch off. Preston Plucknett lies under 25 miles from the M5; there, use the first exit. About how far did it go? Crossing Preston Plucknett is less a job than a run of under 25 miles towards Wells, so tell us.
What takes place when we get there in Preston Plucknett
Outside Preston CofE Primary School, close to St James or on your own drive: wherever the car has stopped, our engineers come to it. Which fluid was put in, the quantity, and if it ran: our engineers ask because those replies set both work and quote. On the call itself, you hear our price — before anything else.
Emptying your tank comes next, then a thorough flush of your system. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and attacks certain fuel-system metals, and none of it washes out unaided. Hence it matters more. After the filter has been cleaned — or replaced, where needed — clean diesel is added, and then the vehicle gets tested. We don't go until it has been fired up and is running properly.
Most jobs are done in about half an hour once our engineers get there, provided your motor has not run — and the pumps our technicians use are safe on a busy forecourt yet quiet at night outside a house. Paying is on the day, not upfront, and you are given the paperwork your insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it is worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Preston Plucknett and where it is
Preston Plucknett is a suburban area in inland Somerset, situated approximately 57 metres above sea level. Preston Plucknett lies near several nearby places, including Summerlands, Alvington, and Lufton, and is located around 18 miles from the city of Wells. Preston Plucknett has a population of around 4396 people, predominantly living in semi-detached housing. Preston Plucknett is also within commuting distance to larger cities, with London being around 116 miles away.
AdBlue drains across Somerset, Preston Plucknett included
Being a residential suburb, Preston Plucknett has the same vans as surrounding areas — Alvington, Lufton — all the way across BA postcodes and the surrounding area around them. A postcode starting BA20 2 gets the van to you fastest.
No need to move the car. Our engineers drain it where it is — a side street close to Westland Leisure Complex Sports Hall, a lay-by on the way to Preston Park, a driveway. If you are close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Westlands Entertainment Venue, ring and ask rather than guessing.
The short version for Preston Plucknett motorists
Before you tip, read the cap. AdBlue in the diesel tank regardless? Leave it switched off and phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, throughout Somerset.