Rusheylake: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? In that case put this page down for now, leave your ignition and motor off, and phone 0333 366 0103. Normally, when the motor has not run, it's drained and fully purged where the vehicle is around Rusheylake. If you are reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it takes place and how to make sure it does not.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel vehicle need its own filler?
Many modern diesels on the roads around Rusheylake and Twy Cross carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your engine. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into your exhaust stream and cleans it.
Each tank has its own filler. Other cars keep the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; plenty of others have both together behind one flap. Topping up your diesel side at the pump happens constantly. Seldom filled, AdBlue normally comes from a bottle, tipped by a driver who has to stop and think what cap to use. The mistake grows in that gap between the two.
Rusheylake: how AdBlue in your diesel tank occurs
Rarely is it carelessness: normally three things line up.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low your car tells you, and if it runs out altogether, the car drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a drive off Sandy Hill Road before work, or in the car park at The Captains Table on the way home.
Then the car is unfamiliar. A hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and your hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old one.
A spouted bottle meets no resistance at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. So the pour, after started, keeps on. Whether it takes place in Saundersfoot or the middle of Rusheylake, it's the same few seconds.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Look at these first, at a forecourt around Rusheylake or a drive out in New Hedges. Seconds, no more.
- Colour and lettering: an AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally doesn't. Go by the cap, not its position.
- The size. On plenty of motors the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Plenty of motors say there which fuel goes where.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that is where your filler is if it's not by the diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- Collecting a hire or company car, say at the car park at Saundersfoot? Check with the person who drove the vehicle last before leaving, rather than when the light goes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
Anywhere in Pembrokeshire the light comes on, this is a routine for the day.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with your engine running, and not in a rush on the side of Bevelin Hall.
- Find the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and speak the word "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly. It works.
- The diesel cap stays on. When both sit under a flap, confirm it is shut before the bottle comes up.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Before you start the vehicle, shut the cap and look a second time that your diesel cap was never came off.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you've already poured into your diesel side. Skip step five altogether.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, in Rusheylake?
Don't start the motor: that is where the short order of things begins. Do not switch your ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where the fuel is drawn from — so do not top up with diesel to dilute it.
Ask the attendants to help roll the car away from the pump if you are on a forecourt — the Lifestyle Express, the another forecourt nearby or somewhere else. If you're on your own drive in Rusheylake, leave the car where it sits.
If your engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. On the M4, under 50 miles from Rusheylake, that means the next exit. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards St Davids, under 50 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Rusheylake.
Rusheylake: what happens when we get there
By the local primary school, close to Regency Hall or on your own driveway: wherever the vehicle has stopped, our technicians come to it. Which liquid went in, the quantity, and if it ran: our technicians ask since the replies set both work and price. You hear that quote on the phone, before anybody sets off.
The system is then cleaned thoroughly, after your tank is cleared. 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 the flush counts more here than with petrol. Filter flushed or, if it must be, swapped; clean diesel in; then a check of the vehicle. The motor is started next and tested to make sure it runs correctly, all before our technicians leave.
With pumps safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs where your engine has not run need roughly half an hour once we are there. The insurer usually wants an engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and you get both at the end. Payment is on the day, with no money upfront. While we travel, have a look at your policy; plenty include cover for misfuelling.
About Rusheylake and where it is
Rusheylake is a small suburban area in Pembrokeshire, situated on the coast of Wales at an elevation of 63 metres. Rusheylake lies near several nearby settlements, including Saundersfoot, Broadfield, and Churchton, and is within driving distance of St Davids, the smallest city in the UK. Rusheylake is characterised by its predominantly detached housing stock, reflecting its residential nature. Rusheylake is also relatively far from major urban centres, with London approximately 197 miles away.
AdBlue drains about Rusheylake, and Pembrokeshire beyond
As a residential suburb, Rusheylake has the same vans as nearby places — Broadfield, Churchton — all the way across SA postcodes and the surrounding area around them. Give a postcode beginning SA69 9, and our van arrives quickest.
The car doesn't need to shift. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street near Saundersfoot Library, a lay-by on the way to The Plantation, a drive. If you are close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Wesley Chapel, ring and ask rather than guessing.
In short, for Rusheylake people
Read the cap before you tip. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank regardless, leave it off then phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it sits, anywhere around Pembrokeshire.