Turnford: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your motor and your ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103. Around Turnford, catching it before your motor runs normally means draining and a thorough flush where it stands. Not happened yet? Below, the page covers the reasons it happens and the ways to avoid it for good.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel car
Diesel goes to the engine — yet plenty of newer diesels driven around Turnford and Broxbourne carry a second fluid as well. Your exhaust, not the motor, is where AdBlue ends up: sprayed into the gas to fresh it, from a separate tank.
There is a filler on each tank. Other vehicles put the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; plenty more have both together behind one flap. At the petrol pump, the diesel side gets filled constantly. The AdBlue side is topped up far less frequently, normally from a bottle, and usually by somebody who has to stop and think where it goes. That gap is where the mistake lives.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank happens around Turnford
Seldom is it carelessness: usually three things coincide.
Hurry comes from the warning. The car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank puts it into limp mode — so the top-up happens in a rush, before work on a drive off Rochford Close, or on the way home in the car park at Bulls Head.
Then, the hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old vehicle — because a rental car, a new motor or a company car places the fillers somewhere your last one did not.
A spouted bottle meets no obstacle at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. So the tip, once begun, keeps on. It's a few seconds, whether in Wormleybury or bang in the heart of Turnford.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Be it a Turnford forecourt or a driveway over in Keysers Estate, spend a few seconds over these before anything goes in.
- Blue and lettering: an AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally does not. Go by the cap, not where it sits.
- Look at the size: the smaller neck is, on plenty of motors, the AdBlue one.
- Open the filler flap and check for a label — plenty of vehicles mark what belongs in each inlet right there.
- Can't see it next to your diesel filler? In that case check beneath the bonnet or in your boot — the owner's manual says which.
- Collecting a hire or company car, say at the car park outside Cheshunt? Ask the person who drove it last before leaving, rather than when the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
When the light goes on, anywhere around Hertfordshire, use this routine.
- Not in a rush on the side of The Canadas, not on a slope, not with the motor running: park then switch off properly.
- Find the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and say the name "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft. It works.
- Both behind a single flap? So make sure the cap on the diesel filler stays closed ahead of lifting the bottle.
- Slowly does it, through the bottle's own spout, until it is full or the bottle runs out.
- Before you start your car, close the cap and check a second time that the diesel cap was never opened off.
Find at stage two or three that it has already gone into the diesel side? So stop just there. Never go on to step five.
Turnford: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Brief list, then. First: your motor stays unstarted. Keep the ignition off as well, because on plenty of diesels switching it on alone starts the fuel pump. Thinning it with extra diesel won't work, since AdBlue sinks to the base instead of mixing — and that is where the fuel is pulled from.
If you're on a forecourt, whether it's the murco or the Tesco, ask the attendants to help push the car away from the pump. Your own drive around Turnford is where it should stay.
When your motor has run by now, pull over somewhere safe and switch it off. Turnford sits under 3 miles from the M25; on it, take the next junction. A short hop across Turnford is a smaller job than a run towards St Albans, under 15 miles away, and so tell us about how far it went.
Our arrival in Turnford, and what takes place next
By Longlands Primary School and Nursery, near HRC Sports Centre or on your own driveway: wherever the vehicle has stopped, we come to it. Those replies decide the work and our price, and so our technicians ask what was put in, about how much, and if it has run. You hear that quote on the phone, before anybody sets off.
After that: draining, then a full flush of the whole system. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and eats at some fuel-system metals, and none of that clears away unaided. Hence it counts more. Testing comes last: before that, fresh diesel goes in, and your filter is cleaned or changed as needed. We don't leave until it has been started and is running properly.
If the engine has not run, most jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night. Payment happens on the day, not upfront, and you are given the documents your insurer asks for: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it is worth checking yours while we are on the way.
About Turnford itself
Turnford is a suburban area in Hertfordshire, situated lakeside at an elevation of 27 metres, with nearby places including Wormleybury, Wormley, and Flamstead End. Turnford is located approximately 15.5 miles from London and 13.6 miles from St Albans, making it a commuter-friendly location. Turnford has a population of around 7955 people, predominantly residing in flat-type housing. Turnford's lakeside setting provides a unique geographical feature in the area.
Turnford and Hertfordshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Throughout EN postcodes, our teams covering Turnford — a residential suburb — work the nearby spots too, Flamstead End and Wormley included. Quote a postcode that starts EN10 6, and the van arrives fastest.
The car stays put. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street near Wormley Free Church, a lay-by on the way to Nightleys Playing Fields, a driveway. Tricky to pin down, like the back of St Clement, Turnford? By a border? Checking is better than guessing, and so phone.
For Turnford motorists, the short version
Always, the cap; after that, the tip. Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, anywhere across Hertfordshire, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank anyway — so leave the vehicle off then ring 0333 366 0103.