Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Ravenstone: Why It Occurs
Leave your engine and ignition off then call 0333 366 0103 now — reading can wait when AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. In Ravenstone, finding it before your engine turns normally means a drain and a full flush on the spot. Not happened yet? Below, the rest of the page covers the why it takes place and the how to prevent it for good.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel car
Plenty of modern diesels in Hugglescote, as well as Ravenstone, run on two fluids; your motor takes just the diesel. AdBlue's own tank holds it, and from there it is sent to your exhaust, and there spraying cleans the gas.
Different tanks, different fillers. Many of vehicles share a single flap for both, while some move the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is filled at the petrol pump all the time. The AdBlue side is fuelled far less commonly, normally from a bottle, and usually by someone who has to stop and think where it goes. The mistake lives in that gap.
AdBlue in your diesel tank around Ravenstone: how it occurs
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a warning from the car, and running dry means limp mode — so a rushed top-up, perhaps before work off Main Street, or outside the pub in the village on the way home after work.
Then the vehicle is new. A hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and the hand hits for the cap it would have used on the old one.
A spouted bottle finds no resistance at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. So the tip, once started, keeps on. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Ravenstone or out in Snibston.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
Before you tip anything, whether on a driveway in New Swannington or a forecourt in Ravenstone, check these. They take a few seconds.
- Where it sits misleads; the cap does not. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or bear the word "AdBlue" — diesel ones normally don't.
- On plenty of motors, the size tells: AdBlue has the smaller filler neck.
- A label inside the fuel flap often says which fuel goes where, on plenty of vehicles. Look for it.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that is where the filler sits if it is not by your diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- Picking up a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park at Loughborough? Check with whoever drove the car last before you set off, rather than once the light goes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
Wherever across Leicestershire the light comes on, this is a routine for that day.
- Pull in somewhere level, engine off, with time to spare — not rushing on the side of Heather Lane.
- Silly as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap does the trick — once you have located your filler and read the cap.
- The two under one flap? So make sure the lid on your diesel filler is still closed before lifting the bottle.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap, and check once more — confirm your diesel cap stayed closed throughout. After that, start the vehicle.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Skip stage five entirely.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Ravenstone?
Do not start the engine: that's how the short order of things starts. Keep your ignition off as well, since on plenty of diesels switching it on by itself starts the fuel pump. Thinning it with extra diesel fails, since AdBlue sinks to the bottom instead of blending — and that's where the fuel is sucked from.
On a forecourt — the nearest petrol station, Harvest Energy or another — the staff will usually help push the vehicle clear, when you ask. At home around Ravenstone? So the vehicle remains put.
Already started? Pull over once it is sensible, then turn off. Leave the M1 — under 5 miles out of Ravenstone — at the next junction. About how far did it go? Crossing Ravenstone is smaller work than a trip of under 15 miles to Leicester, and so say.
Our arrival in Ravenstone, and what takes place next
Our engineers come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside Woodstone Community Primary School, close to Ravenstone Football Club or on your own drive. What fluid got in, the quantity, and if it ran: our technicians ask because the answers set the work and price. Nobody sets off until you have heard the quote over the phone.
Your system is then flushed thoroughly, after that tank is cleared. Not like petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and attacks some fuel-system metals, and neither washes away unaided. That is why it matters more. A test comes at the end: before that, clean diesel goes in, and the fuel filter is flushed or replaced as needed. We do not leave until it has been fired up and is running correctly.
Using pumps fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs where your engine has not run take roughly half an hour after we arrive. Paying is on the day, not upfront, and you are given the paperwork your insurer wants: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. Wrong-fuel cover is included in plenty of insurance policies — and so use the wait to check yours.
About Ravenstone
Ravenstone is a village situated on the riverside in Leicestershire, with a population of around 1540 people. Ravenstone has a mix of housing types, but detached homes are the most predominant. Ravenstone sits at an elevation of 150 metres, approximately 12.8 miles from Leicester and 99.7 miles from London. Ravenstone is close to nearby places such as Snibston, Sinope, and Donington le Heath.
AdBlue drains round Ravenstone, and Leicestershire beyond
Being a village, Ravenstone shares its vans surrounding places — Sinope, Donington le Heath — all the way through LE postcodes and the surrounding area around them. A postcode starting LE67 2 gets the van to you fastest.
The vehicle remains where it is. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street near St Michael and All Angels, a lay-by on the way to Assage Wood, a driveway. Ring and ask rather than assuming if you are near a border, or somewhere hard to explain, like the back of St Mary.
For Ravenstone motorists, the short version
Before you tip, read the cap. Still AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can empty it wherever it is, wherever in Leicestershire: switch it off and call 0333 366 0103.