Two Mile Hill: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
Pause reading a minute if the diesel tank already has AdBlue in it: ignition off, motor off, and ring 0333 366 0103. In Two Mile Hill, catching it before the motor runs normally leaves a drain and a full flush where it stands. The rest of this page explains why it occurs and how to ensure it does not — useful if you are reading ahead of time.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel vehicle
No single liquid but two: that is what many modern diesels near Two Mile Hill and Speedwell carry, with diesel feeding the engine. Its own tank holds it, and from there it goes to your exhaust, and there a spray cleans the gas.
There is a filler on every tank. Many of vehicles share a single flap for both, while some move the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. Topping up your diesel side at the pump goes on all the time. Seldom topped up, AdBlue normally goes in from a bottle, poured by a driver who has to stop and think what filler to use. That gap is where the mistake lives.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank happen in Two Mile Hill?
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a warning from the vehicle, and running out leads to limp mode — hence a rushed top-up, perhaps before work off Talbot Avenue, or outside Essex Arms on the way home that evening.
New-to-you cars come next, too. Hire cars, new vehicles and company vehicles place their fillers in new places, 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 tip after it has started. Chester Park or the middle of Two Mile Hill: it is the same few seconds either way.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Look at these first, on a forecourt in Two Mile Hill or a drive out in Potterswood. Seconds, no more.
- Where it sits can mislead; the cap does not. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or bear the name "AdBlue" — diesel ones normally don't.
- Look at the size: the smaller neck is, on plenty of vehicles, the AdBlue one.
- Check inside the fuel flap: plenty of motors have a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If the filler is not by your diesel cap, it's in your boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Ask the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — if you pick up a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park at Lawrence Hill.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever across Bristol that is.
- Not in a rush on the side of Charlton Road, not on a slope, not with the engine running: park and switch off first.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after finding the AdBlue filler and reading it. Daft, perhaps, yet it does the trick.
- The diesel cap stays on. Where both share a flap, confirm it's shut before lifting the bottle.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check once more. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start your car.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Never carry on to step five.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Two Mile Hill already?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start your motor. The fuel pump runs on many diesels as soon as your ignition is switched on — so keep it off. Topping up with diesel will not dilute it: rather than mixing, AdBlue sinks to the base of that tank, just where fuel is taken from.
If you are at a forecourt, whether it is the Esso or the Texaco, ask the staff to help roll the car away from the pump. On your own drive in Two Mile Hill? Then the car stays put.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if the motor has already run. Come off the M32 — under 3 miles out of Two Mile Hill — at the next junction. A short hop across Two Mile Hill is a smaller job than a run towards Bristol, under 5 miles away, so tell us about how far it went.
Two Mile Hill: what occurs when we turn up
Our van reaches the vehicle wherever it has come to rest — your own drive, near Eric Ball OBE, or by Two Mile Hill Primary School. Both the work and the quote rest on three replies — what fluid, which quantity, and whether it has run — so our engineers ask. On the phone call itself, you are told our price — before dispatch.
Then that tank is emptied and the system cleaned thoroughly. Unlike petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and eats at certain fuel-system metals, and none of that clears out by itself. That is why it counts more. The filter flushed or, if it must be, replaced; fresh diesel in; then a check of your vehicle. Then our engineers fire it up and check it runs smoothly before we leave.
Unstarted cars mostly need a half-hour visit from the moment we arrive. The kit is safe on a live filling station, and hushed enough for a residential street late at night. Payment is on the day, not upfront, and you receive the documents your insurer asks for: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. Before we get there, take a look at your policy; many carry cover for misfuelling.
About Two Mile Hill and where it is
Two Mile Hill is a village located inland in the county of Bristol, sitting at an elevation of 97 metres and approximately 3.6 miles from the city of Bristol. Two Mile Hill is surrounded by nearby places such as Chester Park, Burchells Green, and Whiteway, and is characterized by its predominantly terraced housing. Two Mile Hill has a population of around 6983 residents, making it a relatively small but distinct community within the larger Bristol area.
Two Mile Hill and Bristol: AdBlue drains across the area
Over BS postcodes, the vans covering Two Mile Hill — a rural village — work the nearby locations too, Whiteway and Burchells Green among them. Fastest of all: give a BS15 1 postcode to the van.
The car doesn't need to shift. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to GB Britton Bowls Club, a side street close to Salvation Army: we drain the vehicle where it stands. If you're near a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of Speedwell Methodist Church, ring and ask instead of assuming.
For Two Mile Hill people, the short version
First, the cap; after that, the pour. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank anyway, leave it off then ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel clears it where it waits, anywhere across Bristol.