South Cary: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the motor and your ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103. Normally, if the motor has not run, it is emptied and fully cleaned where the car is around South Cary. The rest of this page covers why it takes place and how to ensure it does not — useful if you're reading before it has happened.
AdBlue in a diesel car, and its separate tank
Many newer diesels on the roads about South Cary and Ansford carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your engine. Your exhaust, not your motor, is where AdBlue ends up: sprayed into the gas to clean it, from its own tank.
Each tank comes with one filler of its own. On a lot of cars the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in your boot or under the bonnet. Filling your diesel side at the petrol pump goes on all the time. Rarely filled, AdBlue normally comes out of a bottle, poured by someone who has to stop and think what filler to use. The mistake lives in that gap.
South Cary: how AdBlue in your diesel tank occurs
Seldom is it carelessness: usually three things line up.
On a driveway off South Street before work, or in the car park at The Bay Tree heading home: that's where the hurried top-up happens. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue runs low the vehicle warns you, and once it's empty, limp mode kicks in.
New-to-you cars come second, too. Hire cars, new vehicles and company cars put their fillers differently, and habit goes for the cap used on the old one.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, so nothing stops the pour after it has started. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of South Cary or out in Castle Cary.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Check these first, on a forecourt in South Cary or a drive out in Dimmer. A few seconds, that's all.
- Blue and marking: an AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally doesn't. Go by the cap, not where it sits.
- The size. On plenty of vehicles the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Check inside the fuel flap: many vehicles have a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that's where the filler is if it is not by the diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- Collecting a hire or company car, say at the car park outside Castle Cary? Check with the person who drove it last before leaving, rather than once the light goes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever across Somerset that is.
- Switch off once parked — flat ground, engine off, and never rushed beside Alma Field at the roadside.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after finding the AdBlue filler and reading it. Daft, yes, yet it works.
- The two behind a single flap? So make sure the lid on your diesel filler stays shut ahead of lifting the bottle.
- Slowly does it, through the bottle's own spout, until it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Only then, start your car: close the cap, check once more, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
Find during the second or third stage that the bottle went into the wrong filler? That's where you stop. Step five is out.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank around South Cary already?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start your motor. The fuel pump starts on plenty of diesels as soon as your ignition goes on — and so leave it off. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where your fuel is pulled from — so do not top up with diesel to thin it.
At a forecourt — Harvest Energy, another forecourt nearby or another — the attendants will usually help push the car away, if you ask. Leave it where it is if you're on your own driveway around South Cary.
Already started? Pull over once it's sensible, then switch off. On the M5, under 25 miles from South Cary, that means the next junction. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Wells, under 15 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across South Cary.
When our technicians turn up around South Cary, what occurs?
Anywhere the car came to rest, whether by Castle Cary Community Primary School, beside Cadet Centre or on your own drive, the van travels to it. Both the work and our price rest on three replies — what fluid, what amount, and whether it's run — so we ask. The quote comes on the call, ahead of any van leaving.
Your system is then flushed thoroughly, after that tank is drained. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and attacks certain fuel-system metals, and none of it clears away by itself. Hence it matters more. The filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and your car is tested. Then our technicians fire it up and make sure it runs properly before leaving.
Most jobs are done in roughly half an hour after our technicians get there, provided the motor hasn't run — and the pumps we use are safe on a busy forecourt and quiet at night outside a house. Paying happens on the day, not upfront, and you receive the paperwork an insurer asks for: 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 South Cary and where it is
South Cary is a suburban area situated on the riverside in Somerset, with a mix of terraced housing and a population of around 821 residents. South Cary sits approximately 100 metres above sea level, near the city of Wells and close to nearby places like Castle Cary and Cockhill. South Cary is located in the South West region of England, about 107 miles west of London. South Cary benefits from its proximity to the surrounding countryside and the nearby city of Wells.
South Cary and Somerset: AdBlue drains across the area
Throughout BA postcodes, our teams covering South Cary — a residential suburb — work the nearby spots too, Small Way and Cockhill among them. A postcode starting BA7 7 gets the van to you fastest.
There's no need to move the car. Wherever it sits — beside Lodge Hill Viewpoint, in a layby en route to The Moat Garden, at home — that's where it gets drained. Assuming doesn't help behind Scout hut, close to a border, or anywhere awkward to pin down; ring and ask.
South Cary drivers: the short version
Pour no AdBlue until you have read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank anyway, leave the vehicle off and call 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it waits, anywhere in Somerset.