Rush Hill: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
Pause here for a moment when your diesel tank already holds AdBlue in it: ignition off, motor off, then call 0333 366 0103. A drain and a thorough flush, done right where the car stands around Rush Hill, is normally what it takes when found before the engine runs. Not happened yet? Further down, the page explains the reasons it occurs and the how to prevent it altogether.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle: two tanks, two fillers
Diesel feeds your motor — yet many modern diesels driven round Rush Hill and Southdown carry a second fluid too. Your exhaust, not your engine, is where AdBlue ends up: dosed into the fumes to clean them, from a separate tank.
Each tank has one filler of its own. Plenty of cars have a single flap for both, while others put the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. Filling your diesel side at the petrol pump happens all the time. Rarely topped up, AdBlue usually comes from a bottle, tipped by a driver who has to stop and think what cap to use. That gap is where the slip lives.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs around Rush Hill
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
On a drive off Rush Hill before work, or in the car park at Trowbridge House on the way home: that is where the hurried top-up happens. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue runs low the car warns you, and if it is gone, limp mode kicks in.
The old car's filler is where your hand reaches — but a hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers somewhere else. That's a second factor: a new car.
Lastly, the bottle fits: a diesel filler or AdBlue one, it goes in just as readily, and after the tip begins, no part halts it. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Rush Hill or out in Kingsway.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
A few seconds is all the checks take — so run through them before you pour anything, on a drive in Moorlands or a forecourt in Rush Hill.
- Colour and marking: an AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually does not. Go by the cap, not its position.
- Plenty of cars give AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Plenty of motors say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook shows where it lives when the filler is not next to your diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- Check with the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — when you pick up a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside Oldfield Park.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
For the day the warning comes on — anywhere it is in Somerset — a simple routine to use.
- Pull in somewhere level, motor off, with time in hand — never rushing on the side of Clarks Way.
- Find the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and speak the word "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It seems silly. It does the trick.
- Both under one flap? Then confirm the cap on your diesel filler stays closed ahead of lifting the bottle.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty.
- Only then, start your car: close the cap, check a second time, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Never go on to stage five.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Rush Hill?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start the engine. On plenty of diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so do not switch it on. Diluting it with more diesel won't work, because AdBlue settles to the base rather than blending — and that's where the fuel is sucked from.
If you're at a forecourt, whether it's the Esso or the Sainsbury's, ask the staff to help push the vehicle clear of the petrol pump. If you are on your own drive in Rush Hill, leave the vehicle where it sits.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if the engine has already run. The next exit is the place to leave if you're on the M4, under 10 miles from Rush Hill. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Bath, under 3 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Rush Hill.
What occurs when our technicians turn up around Rush Hill
Wherever your car has stopped, whether outside St Philip's CofE Primary School, near Sladebrook Evangelical Church or on your own drive, our van comes to it. Both the work and the quote rest on three answers — which liquid, which quantity, and if it's run — so our engineers ask. You hear that price by phone, before anybody heads out.
After that: a drain, then a full flush of the entire system. Much more than with petrol, it matters here: crystals form, certain metals are attacked, and none of it washes away unaided, however long it is left. A test comes last: before that, clean diesel is added, and the filter is cleaned or changed if necessary. Before leaving, our engineers fire it up and make sure that it's running smoothly.
Unrun vehicles usually mean a half-hour job after the moment we arrive. The equipment is fine on a live filling station, and hushed enough for a residential street after dark. No money upfront; you settle up on the day. At the end, the VAT invoice and the report from the engineer are handed to you for the insurer. It's worth looking at your insurance as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover comes with many policies.
About Rush Hill and where it is
Rush Hill is a suburban area located near the city of Bath in Somerset, sitting at an elevation of around 145 metres. Rush Hill is characterized by its predominantly semi-detached housing stock, with the neighbourhood forming part of the larger urban area surrounding Bath. Rush Hill is close to other nearby places such as Kingsway, Odd Down, and The Oval, and is situated inland, approximately 1.8 miles from Bath city centre.
Rush Hill and Somerset: AdBlue drains across the area
Over BA postcodes, our teams covering Rush Hill — a residential suburb — work the surrounding locations too, The Oval and Odd Down included. Quote a postcode beginning BA2 2, and our van gets there fastest.
Your car doesn't need to shift. The drain takes place right there, be it a drive, a street by St Philip & St James Church, or a lay-by towards Sirius Wood. If you are near a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of Odd Down Youth Centre, ring and ask rather than assuming.
For Rush Hill people, the short version
Read the cap before you tip. Even so AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will empty it where it stands, anywhere in Somerset: keep it off then call 0333 366 0103.