Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Russell Hill: Why It Happens
Keep your motor and ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103 first — the rest can wait when AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Usually, when your engine has not turned, it's emptied and fully flushed where the car is around Russell Hill. The rest of this page covers why it takes place and how to make sure it doesn't — useful if you are reading ahead of time.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle, and its separate tank
Diesel feeds your engine — but many current diesels seen about Russell Hill and South Beddington hold a second liquid as well. Your exhaust, not your engine, is where AdBlue goes: dosed into the gas to fresh them, from a separate tank.
Each tank has one filler of its own. Other cars put the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; a lot more have both together under one flap. The diesel side is topped up at the pump all the time. The AdBlue side is topped up far less frequently, normally from a bottle, and normally by someone who has to stop and think where it goes. The slip lives in that gap.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank happens around Russell Hill
Carelessness seldom causes it. What does is three things lining up at once.
Hurry follows from the warning. The vehicle tells you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank puts the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up gets done quickly, before work on a drive off Russell Hill, or heading home in the car park at The Foxley Hatch.
The old car's cap is where your hand goes — yet a rental car, a new vehicle or a company car keeps the fillers somewhere else. That's the second thing: a new motor.
A spout-topped bottle meets no resistance at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. So the tip, once started, keeps on. Purley or the heart of Russell Hill: it is the same few seconds either way.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Before you tip anything, whether on a driveway in Woodcote Green or a forecourt in Russell Hill, check these. They take a few seconds.
- Where it sits misleads; the cap doesn't. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or bear the word "AdBlue" — diesel ones normally do not.
- Check the size: the smaller neck is, on many cars, the AdBlue one.
- Lift the filler flap and check for a label — many motors show which goes in each filler right there.
- Cannot find it beside your diesel filler? Then check below the bonnet or inside your boot — the handbook says where.
- 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 outside Purley.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around Greater London that is.
- Not in a rush on the side of The Bridle Road, not on a slope, not with the engine running: park and switch off properly.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it works.
- The diesel cap stays on. When both sit under a flap, make sure it's shut before lifting the bottle.
- Stop when the tank fills or the bottle runs dry; until then, pour gently through its own spout.
- Close the cap and check again. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
Find during the second or third step that the bottle went in the diesel filler? That is where you stop. Step five stays out.
Russell Hill: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
The short order of things, starting with no starting the motor. Keep the ignition off too, because on plenty of diesels it by itself runs your fuel pump. Don't top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where the fuel is drawn from.
On a forecourt — Tesco, Shell or another — the attendants will normally help push the vehicle clear, when you ask. Your own driveway around Russell Hill is the place it stays.
Where your motor has run already, pull over somewhere safe then switch the vehicle off. Come off the M23 — under 5 miles out of Russell Hill — at the first junction. Mileage counts — a short hop across Russell Hill makes a smaller job than heading under 15 miles towards Westminster — so tell us roughly how far it went.
What takes place when our technicians arrive in Russell Hill
Wherever the car came to rest, be it outside Margaret Roper Catholic Primary School, beside St. Mark's Church or on your own drive, the van travels to it. Those replies settle this work and our quote, and so our engineers ask what was put in, roughly how much, and if it has run. You get that price by phone, before anyone sets off.
Your system is then cleaned thoroughly, once that tank is cleared. Much more than with petrol, it matters with AdBlue: the crystals form, certain metals corrode, and nothing clears out unaided, no matter how long it sits. The filter cleaned or, where needed, replaced; clean diesel in; then a test of the vehicle. Then our engineers start the car and confirm it runs smoothly before leaving.
Most jobs are done in roughly half an hour after we get there, as long as the motor has not run — and the pumps our engineers use are safe on a live forecourt and quiet after dark beside a house. Paying happens on the day, not upfront, and you are given the documents your insurer wants: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. Before we get there, have a look at your insurance documents; plenty carry cover for misfuelling.
About Russell Hill itself
Russell Hill is a suburban area in Greater London, situated approximately 11.3 miles from central London and 10.8 miles from Westminster. Russell Hill sits at an elevation of around 103 metres, with nearby places including Purley, Roundshaw, and Woodcote. Russell Hill is characterised by its predominantly detached housing stock, which reflects the area's residential nature. Russell Hill has a population of around 3327 people, according to approximate estimates.
AdBlue drains across Greater London, Russell Hill included
Over CR postcodes, our teams covering Russell Hill — a residential suburb — work the surrounding spots too, Woodcote and Roundshaw among them. Fastest of all: give a CR8 3 postcode to the van.
No need to shift your car. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to John Fisher School Playing Fields, a side street near Purley Library: we drain it where it sits. Tricky to pin down, like the back of Purley Baptist Church? By a county line? Asking is better than assuming, and so ring.
In short, for Russell Hill drivers
First, the cap; then, the pour. Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, anywhere around Greater London, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless — so leave it off then phone 0333 366 0103.