AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Rise Park: How It Occurs and How to Avoid It
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your engine and your ignition off then call 0333 366 0103. Around Rise Park, catching it before the engine turns normally means draining and a full flush where it stands. The rest of this page covers why it occurs and how to make sure it does not — useful if you're reading before it has happened.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle, and its separate tank
Diesel feeds your engine — yet plenty of modern diesels seen round Rise Park and Gidea Park hold a second fluid as well. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Each tank has its own filler. Under one flap, next to each other: that's the arrangement on many cars. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler sits beneath the bonnet or in the boot instead. Diesel goes in at every filling station visit, week in, week out. The AdBlue side is filled far less commonly, normally from a bottle, and normally by someone who has to stop and think where it goes. The slip lives in that gap.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank occurs around Rise Park
It's hardly ever carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
On a drive off Annan Way before work, or in the car park outside The Aspen Tree on the way home: that is where the hurried top-up happens. Why the rush? As AdBlue gets low the car tells you, and if it is empty, limp mode follows.
Then, your hand reaches for the cap it knew on the old motor — since a rental car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, and so nothing stops the pour once it has started. It takes a few seconds, be it in Collier Row or right in the centre of Rise Park.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Before you pour anything, whether on a drive in Havering-atte-Bower or a forecourt around Rise Park, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- Blue and marking: an AdBlue cap is often blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally does not. Go by the cap, not where it sits.
- On many cars, size gives it away: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- Open the flap and check for a label — plenty of cars show what belongs in which inlet just there.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that's where the filler sits if it's not by the diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- Picking up a hire or company car, say at the car park at Romford? Check with whoever drove the car last before you set off, not once the light goes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
Anywhere across Greater London the light comes on, this is a routine for that day.
- Not in a rush on the side of Wallace Way, not on a slope, not with your engine running: park then switch off first.
- Daft as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap does the trick — once you have located your filler and read it.
- Both behind one flap? So confirm the lid on your diesel filler stays closed ahead of raising the bottle.
- Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check a second time. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
Stop there if you find, at stage two or three, that you have already poured into your diesel side. Don't go on to step five.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Rise Park already?
The short order of things, beginning with no starting your motor. Don't switch your ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Filling up with diesel won't thin it: rather than mixing, AdBlue drops to the base of your tank, right where the fuel is taken from.
At a forecourt — Shell, BP or another — the staff will normally help push your car clear, when you ask. Leave it where it is if you are on your own driveway in Rise Park.
Already run? Stop when it's sensible, then switch off. On the M25, under 5 miles from Rise Park, that means the next junction. A short hop across Rise Park is a smaller job than a run towards London, under 15 miles away, and so tell us roughly how far it went.
Our arrival in Rise Park, and what takes place next
Our engineers come to the car wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside Rise Park Junior School, near Havering Road Methodist Church or on your own drive. Both the work and our quote rest on three replies — which fluid, which amount, and whether it's run — so we ask. The price is given over the phone, before any van leaves.
Then your tank is emptied and the fuel system purged thoroughly. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not wash out on its own. Testing is last: before that, clean diesel goes in, and your filter is flushed or replaced as needed. After that our engineers fire it up and confirm it runs correctly before we go.
With pumps fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs in which your engine has not run need roughly half an hour once our engineers arrive. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. It is worth looking at your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with many policies.
About Rise Park and where it is
Rise Park is a suburban area in Greater London, situated approximately 14.5 miles from central London and 12.9 miles from the city centre. Rise Park sits at an elevation of around 33 metres, with semi-detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation in the area. Rise Park is located near other suburban areas such as Collier Row, Chase Cross, and Romford, and has a population of around 8832 residents.
AdBlue drains across Greater London, Rise Park included
Chase Cross and Romford are among the places near Rise Park, a residential suburb, that the same teams cover, throughout RM postcodes. A postcode starting RM1 4 gets our van to you fastest.
No need to shift the vehicle. Our engineers drain it where it is — a side street close to St James, a lay-by on the way to the green space at the edge of the village, a drive. If you're near a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of The Good Shepherd, ring and ask instead of guessing.
In short, for Rise Park people
Always, the cap; then, the tip. Even so AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can empty it wherever it is, anywhere in Greater London: switch the car off and phone 0333 366 0103.