Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Rushy Green: Why It Happens
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? In that case put this page down for now, leave your ignition and engine off, and ring 0333 366 0103. Usually, if your motor hasn't turned, it is drained and fully cleaned where your vehicle sits around Rushy Green. Not happened yet? Below, the page covers the reasons it takes place and the how to avoid it altogether.
AdBlue in a diesel car, and its separate tank
Many modern diesels around Norlington, like those in Rushy Green, run on two fluids; your motor takes only the diesel. Its own tank holds it, and from there it is sent to your exhaust, where spraying cleans the fumes.
Different tanks, separate fillers. Plenty of cars have a single flap for both, while others move the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. Filling your diesel side at the pump goes on constantly. Someone who has to stop and work out where it goes usually tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less commonly. The error lives in that gap.
AdBlue in the diesel tank in Rushy Green: how it occurs
Carelessness seldom causes it. Instead is three things coming up at once.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low your car tells you, and if it runs out completely, the car goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Greater Paddock before work, or in the car park at The Green Man on the way home.
New-to-you vehicles come second, too. Rentals, new motors and company cars place their fillers differently, and the hand goes for the cap used on the old one.
Nothing stops the pour once it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Whether it takes place in Ashton Green or the middle of Rushy Green, it is the same few seconds.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Before you pour anything, whether on a drive in Little Norlington or a forecourt around Rushy Green, check these. They take a few seconds.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap normally is not. Read it instead of going by where it sits.
- On plenty of vehicles, size tells: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Many vehicles say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If your filler is not by the diesel cap, it is in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Ask the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — if you collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park at Glynde.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
Anywhere around East Sussex the light comes on, here is a routine for the day.
- Turn off once parked — flat ground, motor off, and never rushed beside Old School Close at the roadside.
- Find the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and say the word "AdBlue" aloud while you unscrew it. It seems silly. It does the trick.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Stop when the tank fills or the bottle runs dry; until then, pour gently through the built-in spout.
- Before you start your car, close the cap and look again that your diesel cap was never opened off.
Discover during the second or third stage that AdBlue went into the diesel tank? That is where you stop. Leave out stage five altogether.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Rushy Green already?
The short order of things, beginning with not starting the motor. Don't switch your ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where your fuel is drawn from — so don't top up with diesel to thin it.
On a forecourt — Busy Bee Garage, Clayhill Service Station or another — the attendants will normally help push your car clear, when you ask. Your own drive around Rushy Green is where it stays.
If the engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. Rushy Green lies under 25 miles from the M23; on it, take the first exit. Distance matters — a short hop across Rushy Green makes a smaller job than driving under 15 miles towards Brighton and Hove — so say roughly how far it went.
Our arrival around Rushy Green, and what occurs next
Wherever the vehicle has stopped, be it outside Ringmer Primary and Nursery School, near Ringmer Village Library or on your own drive, our van comes to it. Those replies determine this work and our quote, and so our technicians ask what got in, about how much, and if it has run. During the phone call itself, you hear our price — before anything else.
Next: draining, then a thorough flush of the entire system. Not like petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and eats at some fuel-system metals, and neither washes out unaided. That is why it counts more. The fuel filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and your car is tested. We do not go until it has been fired up and is running smoothly.
Using pumps fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs in which your engine has not run need roughly half an hour after we are there. Nothing upfront; you settle up on the day. At the end, the VAT invoice and the report from the engineer are handed to you for your insurer. It's worth looking at your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with plenty of policies.
About Rushy Green itself
Rushy Green is a locality in East Sussex, situated inland at an elevation of 17 metres, approximately 10 miles north of Brighton and Hove. Rushy Green lies near several other small settlements, including Ashton Green, Ringmer, and Broyle Side, and is characterized by its predominantly semi-detached housing stock. Rushy Green is also relatively close to London, being about 43 miles south-east of the capital. Rushy Green has a population of around 961 residents.
AdBlue drains across East Sussex, Rushy Green included
Rushy Green is a small village, and our vans that cover it also work the towns near it, Ringmer and Broyle Side among them, across the BN postcode area. Our van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting BN8 5.
There's no need to move your car. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street close to Ringmer Village Hall, a lay-by on the way to Cheyney Field, a drive. Guessing won't help at the back of Ringmer War Memorial, close to a border, or anywhere awkward to describe; ring and ask.
In short, for Rushy Green people
Read the cap before you tip. AdBlue in the diesel tank regardless? Keep the vehicle switched off then ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, across East Sussex.