Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Rowbarton: Why It Happens
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case put this page down a moment, keep your ignition and engine off, then ring 0333 366 0103. Caught before your engine runs, it is generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is in Rowbarton. The rest of this page covers why it takes place and how to make sure it doesn't — useful if you're reading ahead of time.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
Not one fluid but two: that's how plenty of modern diesels around Rowbarton and Obridge run, with diesel for the engine. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into your exhaust stream and cleans it.
There is a filler on each tank. Plenty of vehicles have a single flap for the two, while others move the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. At the petrol pump, the diesel side is topped up all the time. Seldom topped up, AdBlue usually goes in out of a bottle, tipped by someone who has to stop and think which cap to use. The slip lives in that gap.
Rowbarton: how AdBlue in your diesel tank takes place
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and if it runs out completely, the car drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Herbert Street before work, or in the car park outside The Plough on the way home.
New-to-you vehicles come second, too. Rentals, new cars and company motors put their fillers differently, and habit reaches for the cap it used on the old one.
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 after it has started. It takes a few seconds, whether out in North Town or right in the centre of Rowbarton.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Check these first, on a forecourt in Rowbarton or a driveway over in Lyngford. A few seconds, that's all.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is frequently blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap usually is not. Read it instead of going by position.
- Look at the size: the smaller filler neck is, on many motors, the AdBlue one.
- A label inside your fuel flap frequently says which fuel goes where, on plenty of motors. Check for it.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that's where the filler sits if it's not by your diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- The person who drove it last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park outside Taunton, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
Wherever in Somerset the light comes on, here is a routine for the day.
- Stop somewhere level, engine off, with time in hand — not hurried on the side of William Street.
- Silly as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew the cap works — after you've located the filler and read it.
- The diesel cap stays on. Where both share a flap, confirm it is closed before lifting the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Before starting the vehicle, shut the cap and look a second time that the diesel cap never came off.
Stop there if you find, at stage two or three, that you have already poured into the diesel side. Don't go on to stage five.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Rowbarton already?
Brief order, then. Top of that: your motor remains off. Don't switch your ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Thinning it with more diesel fails, since AdBlue sinks to the base rather than blending — and that is where your fuel is sucked from.
The attendants at Morrisons, Texaco or any forecourt will usually lend a hand pushing your car away if asked. Your own driveway in Rowbarton is the place it stays.
Where the engine has been run by now, pull over safely then switch the car off. On the M5, under 3 miles from Rowbarton, that means the next junction. Mileage counts — a short hop across Rowbarton makes a smaller job than heading under 25 miles to Wells — so tell us about how far it went.
Our arrival in Rowbarton, and what occurs next
Anywhere the vehicle came to rest, be it by St Andrew's Church School, beside St Andrew's CofE Church or on your own drive, our van comes to it. Both the work and our quote rest on three replies — which fluid, which amount, and whether it's run — so our engineers ask. No one heads out before you have had the quote by phone.
The system is then rinsed thoroughly, after the tank is drained. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and attacks certain fuel-system metals, and none of it clears out unaided. Hence it counts more. Testing comes at the end: before that, clean diesel goes in, and your filter is cleaned or replaced if necessary. Your engine is started next and checked to confirm it runs correctly, all before our technicians head off.
If your engine has not run, most jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are safe on a working 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, take a look at your insurance documents; plenty include cover for misfuelling.
About Rowbarton
Rowbarton is a locality situated on the riverside in Somerset, with an elevation of 21 metres above sea level. Rowbarton lies near several other local places, including North Town, Frieze Hill, and Firepool, and is located approximately 23.7 miles from the city of Wells. Rowbarton has a population of around 4725 people and is characterised by predominantly terraced housing. Rowbarton is also some distance from London, at around 133 miles away.
Rowbarton and Somerset: AdBlue drains across the area
Throughout TA postcodes, our vans covering Rowbarton — a small village — work the surrounding places too, Firepool and Frieze Hill among them. Fastest of all: give a TA2 6 postcode to our van.
The vehicle doesn't need to shift. The drain happens right there, be it a drive, a road by Rowbarton Methodist Church, or a layby on the way to St Andrews Hall. Ring and ask rather than guessing if you are near a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain, like the back of The Albermarle Centre.
In short, for Rowbarton people
Read the cap before you pour. AdBlue in the diesel tank regardless? Leave the car switched off and phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, throughout Somerset.