AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Somerford: Why It Occurs and How to Stop It
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your motor and your ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a thorough flush, carried out just where your car sits around Somerford, is usually what it needs when caught before your engine runs. The remainder of this page explains why it happens and how to ensure it does not — handy if you're reading before it has happened.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel vehicle need its own filler?
Plenty of newer diesels around Illidge Green, as well as Somerford, carry on two liquids; your engine gets only your diesel. AdBlue goes to the exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
There is a filler on each tank. Some vehicles keep the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; plenty more place both together under one flap. Diesel goes in at every filling station call-out, week in, week out. The AdBlue side is filled far less frequently, usually from a bottle, and normally by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. The error lives in that gap.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank take place in Somerford?
It's seldom carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
Hurry follows from the warning. The car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank puts the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up gets done in a rush, before work on a driveway off Broomfields, or heading home in the car park outside the pub in the village.
The old car's cap is where the hand reaches — yet a hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers elsewhere. That's a second factor: a new motor.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, so nothing stops the tip once it has started. It takes seconds, be it in Brereton Heath or right in the centre of Somerford.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Before you tip anything, whether on a drive in Somerford Booths or a forecourt in Somerford, check these. They take a few seconds.
- Check the cap instead of going by position: AdBlue ones are commonly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps normally aren't.
- Check the size: the smaller filler neck is, on many motors, the AdBlue one.
- A label inside the fuel flap frequently shows which fuel goes where, on plenty of vehicles. Check for it.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that's where your filler sits if it is not by your diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- The previous driver knows. Check as you pick up a rental or fleet car — at Holmes Chapel's car park, say — rather than when the warning comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
When the light goes on, anywhere across Cheshire, use this routine.
- Not in a rush on the side of Jay Close, not on a slope, not with the engine running: park then switch off first.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it does the trick.
- The diesel cap remains on. When the two share a flap, confirm it is shut before the bottle comes up.
- Slowly is best, through the bottle's own spout, until it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Before you start the vehicle, shut the cap and check a second time that your diesel cap never came off.
Stop there if you find, at stage two or three, that you've already poured into the diesel side. Never carry on to step five.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Somerford?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start the motor. Do not switch your ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Don't top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where the fuel is pulled from.
The attendants at Gulf, BP or another forecourt will usually lend a hand pushing the car clear when you ask. Leave it where it is if you're on your own driveway in Somerford.
When your motor has been run by now, stop somewhere safe and switch the car off. On the M6, under 3 miles from Somerford, that means the next junction. Mileage counts — a short hop across Somerford is a smaller job than heading under 15 miles towards Stoke-on-Trent — so say roughly how far it went.
What happens when we turn up in Somerford
Wherever your car came to rest, whether by Brereton CofE Primary School, beside Davenport Methodist Church or on your own drive, our van travels to it. Which liquid went in, the amount, and if it ran: our technicians ask since those replies set the work and price. That price is given on the call, before any van leaves.
Your system is then flushed thoroughly, after the tank is drained. Much more than with petrol, it counts here: crystals build up, some metals are attacked, and nothing washes away unaided, no matter how long it sits. The filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and your car is tested. We don't go until it has been fired up and is running smoothly.
Unrun vehicles mostly need a half-hour visit after the moment we arrive. The equipment is fine on a busy filling station, and quiet enough for a driveway after dark. No money in advance; you settle up on the day. Afterwards, a VAT invoice and the report from the engineer are handed to you for your insurer. It is worth looking at your insurance as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover comes with plenty of policies.
About Somerford
Somerford is a small hamlet situated on the riverside in Cheshire, with an elevation of 81 metres. Somerford lies near the towns of Brereton Heath and Davenport, and is close to Smethwick Green. Somerford has a population of around 543 people, predominantly living in detached houses. Somerford is located approximately 11.9 miles from Stoke-on-Trent and 147.3 miles from London.
Somerford and Cheshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Davenport and Smethwick Green are among the places around Somerford, a rural hamlet, that the same vans cover, throughout CW postcodes. Quote a postcode beginning CW12 4, and our van arrives quickest.
No need to move the vehicle. The drain takes place on the spot, whether a driveway, a street by All Saints' Chapel of Ease, or a lay-by towards The Moss. If you're near a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Totem Pole, ring and ask rather than guessing.
The short version for Somerford motorists
Before you tip, read the cap. AdBlue in the diesel tank regardless? Keep it off then call 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, across Cheshire.