AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Rowford: Why It Occurs and How to Prevent It
Leave your engine and ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait when AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. In Rowford, catching it before the motor turns normally means a drain and a thorough flush on the spot. The rest of this page explains why it takes place and how to ensure it does not — useful if you're reading ahead of time.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel motor need its own filler?
Many modern diesels around Gotton, as well as Rowford, carry on two liquids; the motor gets only the diesel. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into the exhaust gas to clean it.
Each tank has its own filler. 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. At the pump, the diesel side is topped up constantly. Someone who has to stop and work out where it goes normally tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less frequently. That gap is where the slip lives.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank happen around Rowford?
Carelessness rarely causes it. What does is three things coming up at once.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low your car tells you, and if it runs out altogether, the vehicle drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a drive off Pitcher's Hill before work, or in the car park outside The Waggon on the way home.
Then, your hand reaches for the cap it knew on the old motor — because a hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers somewhere your last one didn't.
Nothing stops the tip after it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. It takes seconds, be it in Cheddon Fitzpaine or right in the centre of Rowford.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
A few seconds is all these take — so run through them before you pour anything, on a driveway in Pyrland or a forecourt in Rowford.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap usually is not. Read it rather than going by position.
- Check the size: the smaller filler neck is, on many cars, the AdBlue one.
- Check inside your fuel flap: plenty of vehicles carry a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If the filler isn't by your diesel cap, it is in your boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Collecting a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park outside Taunton? Ask the person who drove the car last before you set off, not once the light goes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
For the day the light comes on — anywhere it is in Somerset — a simple routine to use.
- Park and switch off. Not on a slope, not with your engine running, and not in a rush on the side of Cheddon Fitzpaine Road.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after you find the AdBlue filler and reading it. Silly, perhaps, but it does the trick.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave it on.
- Stop once that tank fills or the bottle runs dry; until then, pour gently through the built-in spout.
- Close the cap and check a second time. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the car.
Stop there if you find, at stage two or three, that you have already poured into your diesel side. Never carry on to stage five.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Rowford already?
Brief order, then. First: the motor remains unstarted. Do not switch the ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Filling up with diesel won't thin it: instead, AdBlue drops to the bottom of the tank, just where fuel is drawn from.
If you are on a forecourt, whether it's the Asda or the Texaco, ask the attendants to help push the car clear of the petrol pump. If you are on your own driveway in Rowford, leave it where it is.
If the engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. Come off the M5 — under 3 miles out of Rowford — at the next exit. Distance matters — a quick hop across Rowford is a smaller job than driving under 25 miles to Wells — so tell us about how far it went.
Our arrival in Rowford, and what occurs next
Wherever the car came to rest, be it outside Cheddon Fitzpaine Church School, near Cheddon Fitzpaine Memorial Hall or on your own drive, the van travels to it. Those answers settle this work and the price, and so our technicians ask what was put in, roughly how much, and whether it has run. During the call itself, you are told our price — before dispatch.
Emptying the tank comes next, then a thorough flush of your system. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not wash out on its own — which is why that matters more here than with petrol. After the fuel filter has been cleaned — or replaced, where required — fresh diesel is added, and then your car is tested. Before we go, our engineers fire it up and confirm that it is running properly.
Most jobs are done in roughly half an hour once our technicians get there, as long as your engine has not run — and the pumps our engineers use are safe on a live forecourt and quiet at night beside a house. 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 comes with plenty of policies.
About Rowford, for a moment
Rowford is a small hamlet in inland Somerset, situated at an elevation of 42 metres, and is located near the villages of Cheddon Fitzpaine and Goosenford. Rowford consists mainly of detached housing and has a population of around 560 residents. Rowford is positioned approximately 22 miles from the city of Wells and 131 miles from London, making it a rural community in the South West region. Rowford's setting is characterized by its proximity to the surrounding countryside and nearby settlements like Upper Cheddon.
AdBlue drains around Rowford and across Somerset
Goosenford and Upper Cheddon are among the places near Rowford, a rural hamlet, that the same vans cover, throughout TA postcodes. Quote a postcode beginning TA2 8, and the van gets there quickest.
Your car doesn't need to move. We drain it where it is — a side street near The Blessed Virgin Mary, a lay-by on the way to Sandilands, a drive. Guessing doesn't help at the back of Hestercombe Gardens, close to a boundary, or somewhere awkward to pin down; phone and ask.
For Rowford drivers, the short version
Read the cap before you pour. AdBlue in the diesel tank after all? Keep it switched off and ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, across Somerset.