AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Temple Bar: Why It Happens and How to Prevent It
Keep your engine and ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait when AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Around Temple Bar, finding it before the engine turns usually means a drain and a thorough flush on the spot. The rest of this page explains why it takes place and how to make sure it does not — useful if you're reading ahead of time.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
Plenty of newer diesels around Ditchingham, like those in Temple Bar, carry on two fluids; the engine gets only your diesel. Your exhaust, not your motor, is where AdBlue goes: sprayed into the fumes to clean them, from a separate tank.
There is a filler on each tank. Some vehicles put the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; plenty of others have both side by side behind one flap. Filling the diesel side at the pump goes on constantly. A driver who has to stop and think where it goes usually tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less often. Mistakes happen in the gap between the two.
Temple Bar: how AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
On a driveway off Earsham Dam before work, or in the car park at Queens Head on the way home: that's where the hurried top-up takes place. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and once it is empty, limp mode follows.
Then the vehicle is new. A hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and the hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old one.
A spouted bottle finds no resistance at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. So the pour, after started, keeps on. Whether it occurs in Earsham or the middle of Temple Bar, it's the same few seconds.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
A few seconds is all the checks take — so check them before you pour anything, on a driveway in Wainford or a forecourt in Temple Bar.
- Colour and lettering: an AdBlue cap is often blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually doesn't. Trust the cap, not where it sits.
- On many cars, the size tells: AdBlue has the smaller filler neck.
- Look inside the fuel flap: plenty of vehicles carry a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- Can't find it beside your diesel inlet? In that case look below the bonnet or in the boot — the handbook says where.
- Ask the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — when you collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park at Beccles.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
Wherever across Norfolk the light comes on, this is a routine for the day.
- Turn off once parked — flat ground, motor stopped, and never in a rush beside Princess Way on the verge.
- Silly as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap works — after you have located the filler and read it.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Finish when your tank fills or the bottle is empty; until then, tip slowly through the own spout.
- Only then, start the car: close the cap, check a second time, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you have already poured into the diesel side. Leave out step five entirely.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Temple Bar?
Short list, then. First: the motor stays unstarted. Leave the ignition off as well, since on plenty of diesels switching it on by itself starts your pump. Filling up with diesel won't dilute it: instead, AdBlue sinks to the base of the tank, right where fuel is drawn from.
On a forecourt — The Co-operative, another forecourt nearby or another — the staff will usually help push your car away, if you ask. Your own driveway in Temple Bar is where it should stay.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if the motor has already run. Come off the M11 — over 50 miles out of Temple Bar — at the first junction. About how far did it go? Hopping across Temple Bar is less a job than a trip of under 15 miles towards Norwich, so tell us.
Temple Bar: what takes place when we get there
By Earsham Church of England Primary Academy, close to Earsham Village Hall or on your own driveway: wherever the car has stopped, our engineers come to it. Both the work and our quote depend on three answers — what liquid, which quantity, and whether it has run — so we ask. No one heads out until you've had our price by phone.
After that: draining, then a thorough flush of the whole system. Not like petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and attacks some fuel-system metals, and none of it washes away unaided. That is why it counts more. Testing is last: before that, fresh diesel is added, and your filter is flushed or changed if necessary. We do not go until it has been fired up and is running smoothly.
If the motor hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we're there, using pumps that are fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night. Your insurer usually wants an engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and you get both at the end. Payment comes on the day, with no money upfront. It's worth looking at your policy while we travel to you: misfuelling cover is included with plenty of policies.
About Temple Bar
Temple Bar is a small suburban area in Norfolk, situated on the riverside with an elevation of around 9 metres. Temple Bar is located near the cities of Norwich and the market towns of Bungay and Earsham, and is close to Ditchingham Dam. Temple Bar has a population of approximately 648 people and predominantly consists of semi-detached housing. Temple Bar is about 92.8 miles from London and 13.3 miles from Norwich, making it a relatively rural suburb.
Temple Bar and Norfolk: AdBlue drains across the area
Temple Bar is a residential suburb, and the vans that cover it also work the towns near it, Bungay and Ditchingham Dam among them, across the NR postcode area. Fastest of all: give a NR35 2 postcode to our van.
The car doesn't need to shift. We drain it where it is — a side street near Earsham Village Sign, a lay-by on the way to Earsham Playing Field, a drive. Ring and ask instead of assuming if you are close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain, like the back of All Saints Church.
The short version for Temple Bar drivers
Read the cap before you pour. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank regardless, leave the car off and call 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel clears it where it waits, anywhere around Norfolk.