Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Trunch: Why It Occurs
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? Then set this page aside a moment, leave your ignition and motor off, then phone 0333 366 0103. Normally, if your engine has not turned, it's drained and thoroughly cleaned where your car is around Trunch. If you are reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it takes place and how to make sure it does not.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel car
Plenty of current diesels on the roads round Trunch and Bradfield carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your engine. AdBlue's own tank holds it, and from there it goes to your exhaust, where spraying treats the gas.
Separate tanks, separate fillers. On a lot of motors the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in your boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is fuelled at the petrol pump all the time. Much less frequently, the AdBlue side gets filled — mostly from a bottle, by a person working out where it goes. That gap is where the error lives.
AdBlue in the diesel tank in Trunch: how it happens
Rarely is it carelessness: usually three things coincide.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and if it runs out altogether, the vehicle goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Chapel Road before work, or in the car park outside The Crown Inn on the way home.
Then your car is strange. A hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and your hand gets to for the cap it would have used on the old one.
Third, the bottle goes in: a diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it goes in as easily, and once the pour begins, no part stops it. It's seconds, be it out in Gimingham or bang in the heart of Trunch.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
Look at these before pouring, at a forecourt around Trunch or a drive out in Swafield. A few seconds, that's all.
- Colour and lettering: an AdBlue cap is frequently blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally doesn't. Go by the cap, not its position.
- Look at the size: the smaller filler neck is, on plenty of cars, the AdBlue one.
- A label inside the fuel flap often says which fuel goes where, on many cars. Look for it.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that's where your filler sits if it's not by your diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- Check with 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 Gunton.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever in Norfolk that is.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with your motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Gimingham Road.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and it works.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap, then check again — confirm the diesel filler stayed closed the whole time. After that, start your car.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Stage five stays out.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, in Trunch?
Do not start the engine: that is where the short order of things begins. The fuel pump starts on plenty of diesels as soon as the ignition goes on — and so leave it off. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where the fuel is pulled from — so don't top up with diesel to dilute it.
If you're on a forecourt, whether it is the Sainsbury's or the TotalEnergies, ask the staff to help roll the vehicle away from the pump. On your own drive in Trunch? So the car remains put.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if the motor has already run. The next exit is where to come off if you are on the M11, over 50 miles from Trunch. A short hop across Trunch is a smaller job than a run towards Norwich, under 25 miles away, and so tell us about how far it went.
What takes place when we arrive around Trunch
Anywhere your car has stopped, whether by Mundesley Junior School, beside Trunch Village Sign or at home, our van comes to it. The replies determine the work and our quote, and so our technicians ask what was put in, roughly how much, and if it's run. Nobody sets off until you have had the quote over the phone.
Your system is then purged thoroughly, once that tank is cleared. More than with petrol, it counts with AdBlue: the crystals build up, certain metals are attacked, and nothing clears out on its own, no matter how long it sits. The filter flushed or, where needed, replaced; fresh diesel in; and then a check of the car. We don't go until it has been fired up and is running correctly.
Most jobs are finished in about half an hour after our technicians get there, as long as your motor hasn't run — and the pumps our technicians use are fine on a live forecourt yet quiet after dark outside a house. Your insurer usually wants the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and you get both once the job is done. Payment comes on the day, with no money upfront. Misfuelling cover is part of many insurance policies — and so use the wait to look at yours.
About Trunch
Trunch is a small village on the north Norfolk coast, situated near the villages of Gimingham and Knapton. Trunch has a population of around 900 people and is characterised by detached housing. Trunch sits at an elevation of 43 metres, approximately 16.7 miles north of Norwich and 113.7 miles northeast of London. Trunch is part of the wider coastal landscape of Norfolk, with its economy and community influenced by the sea and surrounding countryside.
AdBlue drains around Trunch and across Norfolk
Knapton and Old Hall Street are among the places around Trunch, a coastal village, that the same vans cover, throughout NR postcodes. A postcode starting NR28 0 gets the van to you fastest.
Your car does not need to shift. Wherever it sits — near Saint Botolph's Church, in a lay-by heading to The Warren, on a drive — that's where it is emptied. Ring and ask rather than assuming if you're close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain, like the back of Trunch Village Hall.
In short, for Trunch people
Read the cap before you pour. Even so AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can drain it wherever it is, wherever in Norfolk: keep it off then call 0333 366 0103.