Why It Occurs and How to Avoid It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Redcastle Furze
Stop here a minute if your diesel tank already has AdBlue in it: ignition off, engine off, then call 0333 366 0103. In Redcastle Furze, catching it before the motor turns normally leaves a drain and a thorough flush on the spot. Not happened yet? Below, the rest of the page explains the reasons it occurs and the ways to avoid it altogether.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel vehicle
Many newer diesels in Croxton, as well as Redcastle Furze, carry on two fluids; your engine gets just your diesel. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into the exhaust stream to clean it.
There is a filler on each tank. On a lot of motors the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in the boot or under the bonnet. Filling your diesel side at the petrol pump happens all the time. Seldom filled, AdBlue usually comes out of a bottle, poured by someone who must stop and think what filler to use. That gap is where the error lives.
Redcastle Furze: how AdBlue in the diesel tank takes place
Carelessness seldom explains it. Instead is three things lining up at once.
Hurry comes from the warning. The car warns you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank sends the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up happens in a rush, before work on a driveway off London Road, or heading home in the car park at The Chase.
New-to-you vehicles come next, as well. Hire cars, new vehicles and company cars put their fillers differently, and the hand goes for the cap it used on the old one.
Lastly, the spout goes in: a diesel filler or AdBlue one, it slides in as readily, and once the pour begins, no part halts it. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Redcastle Furze or out in Newtown.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Check these first, at a forecourt in Redcastle Furze or a driveway out in Euston. A few seconds, no more.
- Blue and lettering: an AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally doesn't. Trust the cap, not its position.
- Many cars fit AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- Open the flap and look for a label — many motors show what belongs in each filler right there.
- The handbook shows where it lives if your filler isn't next to your diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- The person who drove it last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park at Thetford, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
When the light goes on, wherever in Norfolk, use this routine.
- Pull in somewhere level, engine off, with time to spare — not hurried on the side of Sloane Way.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it does the trick.
- The two under a single flap? So make sure the lid on your diesel filler stays closed ahead of raising the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Only then, start the car: close the cap, check once more, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Never go on to stage five.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Redcastle Furze?
Don't start the motor: that is how the short order of things begins. Don't switch the ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Thinning it with extra diesel fails, since AdBlue settles to the bottom instead of mixing — and that is where your fuel is drawn from.
On a forecourt — BP, Sainsbury's or another — the attendants will usually help push your car clear, if you ask. If you're on your own drive around Redcastle Furze, leave the vehicle where it sits.
If your motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. On the M11, under 50 miles from Redcastle Furze, that means the next exit. A short hop across Redcastle Furze is a smaller job than a run towards Ely, under 25 miles away, and so tell us roughly how far it went.
Our arrival in Redcastle Furze, and what takes place next
Wherever your car has stopped, whether outside Redcastle Family School, beside Cemetery Chapel or at home, the van travels to it. Both the work and the quote rest on three replies — which fluid, what amount, and if it's run — so our engineers ask. Nobody heads out before you've heard the price by phone.
After that: draining, then a full flush of the entire system. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't wash out on its own. The fuel filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the vehicle is tested. After that our technicians start the car and check it runs smoothly before we leave.
If the engine has not run, most jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are safe on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house after dark. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. While we travel, have a look at your insurance documents; plenty include cover for misfuelling.
About Redcastle Furze and where it is
Redcastle Furze is a suburban area situated on the riverside in Norfolk, with a relatively low elevation of 22 metres. Redcastle Furze lies near several notable towns, including Newtown, Thetford, and Barnham, and is approximately 19.9 miles from the city of Ely. Redcastle Furze has a population of around 5488 people, predominantly residing in terraced housing. Redcastle Furze is also within commuting distance to London, being around 72.3 miles away.
AdBlue drains across Norfolk, Redcastle Furze included
Redcastle Furze is a residential suburb, and the vans that cover it also work the towns around it, Thetford and Barnham among them, across the IP postcode area. Our van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting IP24 3.
The vehicle doesn't need to move. The drain takes place on the spot, whether a drive, a street near The Forgotten Soldiers, or a lay-by on the way to The Forgotten Soldiers. If you're close to a border, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of Redcastle Furze Community Centre, ring and ask instead of guessing.
For Redcastle Furze motorists, the short version
Pour no AdBlue till you have read the cap. Still AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can empty it where it stands, wherever around Norfolk: switch the car off then ring 0333 366 0103.