Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Rushacre: Why It Occurs
Stop reading for a moment when your diesel tank already holds AdBlue in it: ignition off, motor off, and call 0333 366 0103. Caught before your engine runs, it is generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is around Rushacre. If you're reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it happens and how to make sure it does not.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel car need its own filler?
Not one fluid but two: that is how plenty of newer diesels near Rushacre and Coxlake carry, with diesel for the engine. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into the exhaust stream and cleans it.
Different tanks, different fillers. Plenty of motors share a single flap for both, while some put the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. At the petrol pump, your diesel side is topped up constantly. The AdBlue side is fuelled far less commonly, usually from a bottle, and normally by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. It is in that gap that the error happens.
AdBlue in the diesel tank in Rushacre: how it occurs
Carelessness rarely causes it. Instead is three things lining up at once.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and if it runs out completely, your vehicle drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Rushacre Lane before work, or in the car park at Narberth Rugby Club on the way home.
Then, your hand goes for the cap it would have used on the old vehicle — because a rental car, a new vehicle or a company car places the fillers somewhere 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 tip after it has started. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Rushacre or out in Narberth.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Before you pour anything, whether on a drive in Camp Hill or a forecourt in Rushacre, check these. They take a few seconds.
- Read the cap rather than going by where it sits: AdBlue caps are commonly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones normally aren't.
- Plenty of cars fit AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- A label inside your fuel flap frequently says which fuel goes where, on plenty of motors. Look for it.
- The handbook shows where it lives when the filler isn't next to your diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- Picking up a hire or company car, say at the car park outside Narberth? Ask the person who drove it last before you set off, rather than once the light goes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
For the day the warning comes on — anywhere it is in Pembrokeshire — a routine to follow.
- Not in a rush on the side of Redstone Court, not on a slope, not with the engine running: park then switch off first.
- Locate the AdBlue filler, read the cap, and speak the word "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew it. It sounds daft. It works.
- Both under one flap? Then confirm the cap on your diesel filler is still closed before raising the bottle.
- Gently is best, through the bottle's own spout, till it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check again. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you have already poured into your diesel side. Skip stage five entirely.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Rushacre already?
The short order of things, beginning with no starting your engine. Don't switch your ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Thinning it with more diesel fails, because AdBlue sinks to the base instead of blending — and that's where the fuel is drawn from.
Ask the attendants to help roll the vehicle away from the petrol pump if you are at a forecourt — the Texaco, the Esso or anywhere else. Your own driveway in Rushacre is the place it should stay.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if the engine has already run. Come off the M4 — under 50 miles out of Rushacre — at the next exit. A short hop across Rushacre is a smaller job than a run towards St Davids, under 25 miles away, so tell us about how far it went.
Our arrival in Rushacre, and what occurs next
Our technicians come to the vehicle wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside the local primary school, close to Bloomfield House Community Centre or on your own drive. Which liquid was put in, the amount, and if it ran: we ask because the replies decide the work and quote. No one sets off before you've heard our quote over the phone.
Then your tank is drained and the system rinsed thoroughly. More than with petrol, it counts with AdBlue: the crystals build up, certain metals corrode, and none of it clears away on its own, no matter how long it is left. Filter cleaned or, if needed, swapped; clean diesel in; then a check of your car. Before we go, our engineers start the engine and check that it's running properly.
Most jobs are done in roughly half an hour once our technicians get there, as long as the engine hasn't run — and the pumps our technicians use are fine on a live forecourt and quiet after dark beside a house. The insurer will ask for an engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and both are yours at the end. Payment comes on the day, with no money upfront. Wrong-fuel cover is part of plenty of insurance policies — so make use of the wait to check yours.
About Rushacre, for a moment
Rushacre is a suburban area in Pembrokeshire, situated inland at an elevation of 113 metres. Rushacre lies near the towns of Narberth and Narberth Bridge, and is approximately 22.9 miles from St Davids. Rushacre is characterised by its predominantly detached housing stock, and is home to around 1238 residents. Rushacre is also relatively distant from major cities, with London being around 198.8 miles away.
Rushacre and Pembrokeshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Rushacre is a residential suburb, and the vans that cover it also work the places near it, Stonyford and Narberth Bridge among them, across the SA postcode area. A postcode starting SA67 7 gets the van to you fastest.
The car stays where it is. Anywhere it stands — near Sports Hall, in a lay-by heading to Narberth Moor, on a drive — that's where it gets drained. If you're near a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Narberth Library, ring and ask rather than assuming.
The short version for Rushacre motorists
Read the cap before you pour. AdBlue in the diesel tank regardless? Keep it switched off then call 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, throughout Pembrokeshire.