AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Sturminster Newton: Why It Occurs and How to Prevent It
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the motor and your ignition off and call 0333 366 0103. Caught before your engine runs, it is normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is in Sturminster Newton. Reading in advance? In that case the rest explains how it happens and how to stop it happening at all.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel motor need its own filler?
Plenty of current diesels on the roads around Sturminster Newton and Glue Hill carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the motor. Your exhaust, not the motor, is where AdBlue ends up: sprayed into the gas to clean it, from its own tank.
Each tank has its own filler. Plenty of motors have a single flap for the two, whereas others move the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. Filling the diesel side at the petrol pump happens constantly. The AdBlue side is fuelled far less commonly, usually from a bottle, and normally by somebody who has to stop and think where it goes. Mistakes happen in that gap between the two.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs around Sturminster Newton
It's hardly ever carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
Haste 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 happens in a rush, before work on a driveway off Bath Road, or heading home in the car park outside Swan Inn.
Then, your hand goes for the cap it would have used on the old car — because a rental car, a new motor or a company car places the fillers where your last one did not.
A spouted bottle meets no resistance at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. And so the tip, after begun, carries on. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Sturminster Newton or out in Newton.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Whether a Sturminster Newton forecourt or a driveway over in Rolls Mill, spend a few seconds on these before anything is poured in.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap usually is not. Read it instead of going by where it sits.
- Check the size: the smaller neck is, on many vehicles, the AdBlue one.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Many motors say there which fuel goes where.
- Can't find it next to the diesel inlet? In that case check below the bonnet or in the boot — the owner's manual says which.
- Picking up a hire or company car, say at the car park outside Templecombe? Check with whoever drove the vehicle last before leaving, rather than when the light goes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
When the light goes on, anywhere across Dorset, follow this routine.
- Not in a rush on the side of The Row, not on a slope, not with your motor running: park and switch off properly.
- Daft as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap does the trick — once you've found your filler and read it.
- The two under one flap? Then confirm the lid on your diesel side stays closed ahead of lifting the bottle.
- Slowly is best, through the bottle's own spout, till it is full or the bottle runs out.
- Shut the cap, and look again — confirm your diesel filler stayed closed the whole time. After that, start the car.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Never go on to step five.
Sturminster Newton: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Short list, then. First: your motor stays off. On plenty of diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so don't switch the car on. Filling up with diesel won't dilute it: instead, AdBlue sinks to the bottom of your tank, just where fuel is drawn from.
Ask the staff to help roll the car clear of the petrol pump if you're on a forecourt — the Texaco, the G&A Cook or somewhere else. Leave it where it is if you're on your own driveway in Sturminster Newton.
Where the motor has been run by now, pull over safely then turn the vehicle off. On the M27, under 50 miles from Sturminster Newton, that means the next junction. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Salisbury, under 25 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Sturminster Newton.
What happens when we get there in Sturminster Newton
We come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside William Barnes Primary School, near Sturminster Newton Library or on your own driveway. We ask what went in, roughly how much, and if it has run, since those answers settle the work and our quote. That quote comes over the phone, ahead of any van leaving.
After that: a drain, then a thorough flush of the entire system. More than with petrol, it counts here: crystals form, certain metals are attacked, and nothing clears out on its own, no matter how long it sits. The filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the vehicle is tested. We do not leave until it has been started and is running correctly.
Most jobs are done in roughly half an hour after our engineers get there, as long as your engine hasn't run — and the pumps our engineers use are safe on a busy forecourt yet quiet at night beside a house. Paying is on the day, not upfront, and you are given the paperwork your insurer asks for: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Misfuelling cover is part of plenty of insurance policies — and so make use of the wait to check yours.
About Sturminster Newton, briefly
Sturminster Newton is a town situated on the River Stour in Dorset, with a population of around 4073 people. Sturminster Newton has a mix of housing types, but detached homes are the most common, and the town is located near other small settlements like Newton and Rixon. Sturminster Newton sits at an elevation of 62 metres above sea level, close to the rolling hills and countryside of the South West region. Sturminster Newton is also near the village of Yewstock and the city of Salisbury, which is 24 miles away.
Sturminster Newton and Dorset: AdBlue drains across the area
Being a riverside town, Sturminster Newton has the same vans as nearby places — Rixon, Yewstock — all the way across DT postcodes and the wider area beyond. Our van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting DT10 1.
The vehicle does not need to shift. Anywhere it sits — near The Exchange, in a layby heading to Sturminster Newton Recreation Grounds, at home — that is where it gets cleared. If you're near a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Sturminster Museum, ring and ask rather than guessing.
In short, for Sturminster Newton people
Read the cap before you pour. AdBlue in the diesel tank regardless? Keep the vehicle off then phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, across Dorset.