Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Purley on Thames: Why It Happens
Pause here a minute if your diesel tank already holds AdBlue in it: ignition off, engine off, and ring 0333 366 0103. Caught before your motor runs, it's generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is around Purley on Thames. Here before the event? Then the rest explains why it comes about and how to prevent it happening at all.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel vehicle
Many newer diesels on the roads round Purley on Thames and Pangbourne carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your motor. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
There's a filler on every tank. Under one flap, side by side: that is the arrangement on a lot of motors. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler sits under the bonnet or in your boot instead. The diesel side is fuelled at the petrol pump all the time. Rarely filled, AdBlue normally goes in out of a bottle, tipped by a driver who has to stop and think what cap to use. The slip lives in that gap.
AdBlue in the diesel tank around Purley on Thames: how it takes place
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
On a drive off Cecil Aldin Drive before work, or in the car park at the pub in the village on the way home: that's where the rushed top-up happens. Why the rush? As AdBlue runs low your car warns you, and once it is gone, limp mode kicks in.
The old car's cap is where your hand goes — but a rental car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers elsewhere. That's the second thing: an unfamiliar car.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, so nothing stops the pour after it has started. It takes seconds, be it out in Mapledurham or right in the centre of Purley on Thames.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Whether a Purley on Thames forecourt or a driveway over in Path Hill, take a couple of seconds over these before anything is poured in.
- Where it sits misleads; the cap does not. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or carry the name "AdBlue" — diesel caps normally don't.
- On plenty of motors, the size tells: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- A label inside the fuel flap frequently says which fuel goes where, on many vehicles. Check for it.
- Can't find it next to the diesel filler? Then check beneath the bonnet or inside the boot — the owner's manual says which.
- The previous driver knows. Check when you collect a rental or company car — at Tilehurst's car park, perhaps — rather than when the light appears.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
Anywhere in Berkshire the light comes on, here is a routine for the day.
- Pull in on level, motor off, with time in hand — not rushing on the side of Bowling Green Lane.
- 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 your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave the car on.
- Gently does it, through the bottle's own spout, till it's full or the bottle runs out.
- Before you start the vehicle, close the cap and check a second time that your diesel cap was never came off.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you've already poured into your diesel side. Skip step five altogether.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Purley on Thames already?
Brief list, then. First: the motor stays off. Leave the ignition off too, since on plenty of diesels it alone runs the fuel pump. Don't top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where the fuel is pulled from.
If you're on a forecourt, whether it's the Asda or the Shell, ask the attendants to help roll the vehicle clear of the pump. If you're on your own driveway in Purley on Thames, leave it where it is.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if the engine has already run. The next junction is where to leave when you are on the M4, under 3 miles from Purley on Thames. A short hop across Purley on Thames is a smaller job than a run towards Oxford, under 25 miles away, and so tell us about how far it went.
Our arrival around Purley on Thames, and what takes place next
Our van comes to the vehicle wherever it has come to rest — your own drive, near Purley Memorial Hall, or by Long Lane Primary School. Those answers settle this work and our quote, so our engineers ask what was put in, roughly how much, and if it has run. That price is given over the phone, before any van leaves.
Then that tank is drained and the system purged thoroughly. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not wash out on its own — which is why the flush matters more here than with petrol. Filter cleaned or, if needed, replaced; fresh diesel in; then a check of the vehicle. Before we leave, our engineers fire it up and make sure that it's running properly.
With pumps safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs in which your motor hasn't run need about half an hour after we are there. Your insurer usually wants an engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and you get both once the job is done. Payment comes on the day, with no deposit. Wrong-fuel cover is included in plenty of insurance policies — so use the wait to check yours.
About Purley on Thames
Purley on Thames is a suburban area in Berkshire, situated near the River Thames and close to the nearby places of Mapledurham, Sulham, and Tilehurst. Purley on Thames has a population of approximately 4373 residents and is characterised by predominantly detached housing. Purley on Thames is located inland, with an elevation of 72 metres, and is within commuting distance of major cities like Oxford and London. Purley on Thames sits in the South East region of England, with Oxford being the nearest city at 20.8 miles away.
Purley on Thames and Berkshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Over RG postcodes, our vans covering Purley on Thames — a residential suburb — work the surrounding spots too, Tilehurst and Sulham included. Give a postcode beginning RG8 8, and the van arrives quickest.
Shifting the car isn't necessary. Wherever it stands — beside Purley Barn, on a layby en route to Pikeshaw, at home — that is where it gets drained. Tricky to explain, like the back of St. Mary the Virgin? Close to a border? Asking beats assuming, and so phone.
For Purley on Thames people, the short version
Read the cap before you tip. AdBlue in the diesel tank regardless? Keep it off then call 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, across Berkshire.