Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Privett: Why It Occurs
Stop reading a minute if your diesel tank already holds AdBlue in it: ignition off, engine off, then call 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a full flush, done just where the car sits around Privett, is normally what it needs when found before the engine runs. If you're reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it does not.
AdBlue in a diesel car: two tanks, two fillers
Plenty of modern diesels around Forton, as well as Privett, run on two liquids; your engine gets just your diesel. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into the exhaust stream to clean it.
There's a filler for every tank. Many of cars have a single flap for both, while others move the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. Diesel gets filled at every forecourt call-out, again and again. Someone who has to stop and work out where it goes normally fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less often. The error lives in that gap.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank happens around Privett
Carelessness seldom causes it. What does is three things lining up together.
On a driveway off Ladram Road before work, or in the car park outside The Cocked Hat heading home: that is where the hurried top-up takes place. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue gets low the car warns you, and once it is gone, limp mode follows.
Unfamiliar motors come second, as well. Rentals, new cars and company motors place their fillers differently, and habit reaches for the cap used on the old one.
Nothing stops the tip once it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. It's seconds, whether out in Anns Hill or right in the centre of Privett.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
Be it a Privett forecourt or a driveway over in Brockhurst, take a couple of seconds over these before any is poured in.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap usually is not. Read it rather than going by where it sits.
- Check the size: the smaller neck is, on many motors, the AdBlue one.
- A label inside the fuel flap frequently says which fuel goes where, on many vehicles. Look for it.
- Can't find it next to the diesel filler? In that case look beneath the bonnet or inside the boot — the handbook will say which.
- Picking up a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park at Portsmouth Harbour? Ask whoever drove it last before leaving, rather than when the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
When the light comes on, anywhere in Hampshire, use this routine.
- Turn off once parked — level ground, motor stopped, and never rushed beside Privett Road at the roadside.
- Silly as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" aloud while you unscrew the cap works — after you've found the filler and read it.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave it on.
- Stop once the tank fills or the bottle is empty; until then, tip gently through the built-in spout.
- Close the cap, then look again — confirm the diesel cap stayed shut throughout. Only then, start the vehicle.
Spot at step two or three that it has already gone into the diesel side? Then stop right there. Skip stage five entirely.
Privett: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank?
The short order of things, beginning with no starting your engine. The fuel pump runs on many diesels as soon as the ignition goes on — so keep it off. Do not top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is sucked from.
The attendants at Shell, Harvest Energy or any forecourt will normally lend a hand pushing the car clear when you ask. Leave it where it is if you're on your own drive in Privett.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if your motor has already run. The next exit means the place to come off if you're on the M275, under 5 miles from Privett. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Portsmouth, under 3 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Privett.
What occurs when our engineers arrive in Privett
The van comes to your car anywhere it has come to rest — your own drive, beside Privett Park, or by Gomer Infant School. Both the work and the price depend on three answers — which liquid, what amount, and if it has run — so we ask. You get that quote by phone, before anybody heads out.
Your system is then rinsed thoroughly, after your tank is drained. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not wash out on its own — which is why the flush counts more with AdBlue than with petrol. After the fuel filter is cleaned — or renewed, where needed — clean diesel is added, and then the car is tested. We do not leave until it has been started and is running properly.
If your motor hasn't run, most jobs take about half an hour once we're there, using pumps that are fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house after dark. Payment happens on the day, not upfront, and you are given the paperwork your insurer asks for: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. It is worth looking at your insurance as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover comes with plenty of policies.
About Privett, briefly
Privett is a suburban area located on the coast of Hampshire, near the city of Portsmouth. Privett sits at a low elevation of around 5 metres, and its proximity to the sea has influenced its development. Privett is characterized by its predominantly semi-detached housing stock, which is typical of many suburban areas in the South East of England. Privett is also close to other nearby places, including Anns Hill, Alverstoke, and Camdentown.
AdBlue drains about Privett, and Hampshire beyond
Privett is a residential suburb, and our vans that cover it also work the places near it, Alverstoke and Camdentown among them, across the PO postcode area. The van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting PO12 2.
The car does not need to move. Wherever it stands — near Fort Grange, on a layby heading to Privett Park, at home — that is where it is cleared. If you're near a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Fort Gomer, ring and ask rather than assuming.
The short version for Privett drivers
First, the cap; then, the tip. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, anywhere around Hampshire, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank all the same — and so leave it off then ring 0333 366 0103.