AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Queslett: How It Occurs and How to Avoid It
Pause reading for a moment if the diesel tank already has AdBlue in it: ignition off, motor off, and call 0333 366 0103. Usually, when your motor has not run, it's drained and thoroughly cleaned where your vehicle is in Queslett. The remainder of this page explains why it occurs and how to ensure it doesn't — useful if you're reading before it has happened.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle: two tanks, two fillers
No single liquid but two: that's how many newer diesels around Queslett and Kingstanding carry, with diesel feeding your motor. Its own tank holds it, and from there it is sent to your exhaust, and there a spray cleans the gas.
Different tanks, separate fillers. Some cars put the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; a lot of others place the two side by side behind one flap. Filling your diesel side at the petrol pump goes on constantly. Far less often, the AdBlue side gets topped up — mostly from a bottle, by someone thinking about where it goes. It's in the gap that the slip happens.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank takes place in Queslett
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and if it runs out completely, the vehicle goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Ashgrove Road before work, or in the car park outside The Old Horns on the way home.
New-to-you motors are next, as well. Rentals, new vehicles and company cars put their fillers in new places, and habit reaches for the cap it used on the old one.
Third, the bottle goes in: diesel filler or AdBlue one, it goes in as easily, and after the pour starts, nothing stops it. Whether it takes place in Pheasey or the middle of Queslett, it's the same few seconds.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Check these first, at a forecourt in Queslett or a driveway over in Tower Hill. Seconds, no more.
- Blue and marking: an AdBlue cap is often blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually doesn't. Trust the cap, not where it sits.
- Look at the size: the smaller neck is, on many cars, the AdBlue one.
- Lift the filler flap and check for a label — plenty of vehicles mark what belongs in which inlet just there.
- The handbook says which it lives if the filler isn't next to your diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- Collecting a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park outside Hamstead? Check with the person who drove it last before leaving, rather than once the light goes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
The day the light goes on, anywhere around West Midlands, use this routine.
- Stop on level, motor off, with time to spare — never hurried on the side of Aldridge Road.
- Daft as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" aloud while you unscrew the cap works — after you've found your filler and read it.
- The two under a single flap? Then make sure the cap on the diesel filler is still shut before raising the bottle.
- Finish once that tank is topped up or the bottle is empty; until then, pour gently using its built-in spout.
- Shut the cap, then look once more — confirm the diesel filler remained shut throughout. Only then, start your car.
Spot at step two or three that it has already gone into the diesel side? So stop just there. Leave out stage five entirely.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, in Queslett?
Don't start the motor: that's where the short order of things begins. On many diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so do not switch it on. Filling up with diesel won't thin it: instead, AdBlue sinks to the base of the tank, just where fuel is taken from.
If you are on a forecourt, whether it's the Asda or the Gulf, ask the staff to help roll your car away from the petrol pump. On your own drive in Queslett? So the car remains where it is.
Where your motor has run already, pull over somewhere safe then turn the vehicle off. On the M6, under a mile from Queslett, that means the next junction. A short hop across Queslett is a smaller job than a run towards Birmingham, under 5 miles away, and so tell us roughly how far it went.
What happens when our technicians get there in Queslett
Wherever the vehicle has stopped, whether by Barr View Primary & Nursery Academy, beside Moonstones: Josiah Wedgwood or on your own drive, the van travels to it. Both the work and our quote rest on three answers — which liquid, which amount, and if it's run — so our technicians ask. On the call itself, you hear our price — ahead of dispatch.
Emptying that tank comes next, then a thorough flush of the fuel system. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and attacks certain fuel-system metals, and none of it clears out by itself. That is why it matters more. The filter flushed or, where it must be, replaced; clean diesel in; and then a check of the vehicle. Before we go, we start the engine and confirm that it is running correctly.
With pumps fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs in which your engine has not run need about half an hour once our technicians arrive. The insurer will ask for the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and both are yours once the job is done. Payment is on the day, with no deposit. It's worth checking your insurance as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with many policies.
About Queslett itself
Queslett is a suburban area in the West Midlands, situated near the River Tame and approximately 4.9 miles north of Birmingham city centre. Queslett has a mix of housing types, but semi-detached homes are predominant, and the area is relatively elevated at around 150 metres. Queslett is close to nearby places such as Pheasey, Old Oscott, and Perry Beeches, and is about 104.5 miles northwest of London.
AdBlue drains around Queslett, and West Midlands beyond
Queslett is a residential suburb, and our vans that cover it also work the towns around it, Old Oscott and Perry Beeches among them, across the B postcode area. Quote a postcode that starts B44 8, and our van gets there quickest.
No need to move your car. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Queslett Nature Reserve, a side street near Moonstones: Erasmus Darwin: our engineers drain the car where it stands. Guessing won't help behind Moonstones: Samuel Galton, close to a border, or somewhere awkward to pin down; phone and check.
For Queslett people, the short version
Always, the cap; then, the pour. AdBlue in the diesel tank after all? Leave the vehicle switched off and ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, across West Midlands.