Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Up Somborne: Why It Occurs
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case set this page down for now, leave the ignition and motor off, then phone 0333 366 0103. Usually, if the engine has not turned, it is emptied and thoroughly cleaned where your car sits around Up Somborne. If you are reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it happens and how to make sure it doesn't.
AdBlue in a diesel car: two tanks, two fillers
Not one liquid but two: that's what plenty of newer diesels around Up Somborne and Crawley run, with diesel for your engine. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into the exhaust gas to clean it.
Every tank comes with one filler of its own. On a lot of cars the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in the boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is fuelled at the pump all the time. The AdBlue side is filled far less frequently, normally from a bottle, and usually by somebody who has to stop and think where it goes. The slip lives in that gap.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank happens in Up Somborne
Seldom is it carelessness: usually three things line up.
Haste comes from the warning. Your car warns you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank sends the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up gets done in a rush, before work on a driveway off Winchester Road, or heading home in the car park outside the pub in the village.
New-to-you cars are next, as well. Rentals, new vehicles and company cars place their fillers in new places, and the hand reaches for the cap it used on the old one.
Lastly, the bottle goes in: a diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it slides in just as easily, and after the pour starts, nothing stops it. It takes a few seconds, whether out in Little Somborne or bang in the heart of Up Somborne.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
A few seconds is all the checks take — so check them before you pour anything, on a driveway in Kings Somborne or a forecourt around Up Somborne.
- Colour and lettering: an AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually doesn't. Trust the cap, not where it sits.
- On plenty of cars, size gives it away: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- Lift the filler flap and check for a label — plenty of vehicles show which belongs in each inlet just there.
- The handbook. If the filler is not by your diesel cap, it's in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Picking up a hire or company car, say at the car park at Winchester? Check with the person who drove it last before leaving, rather than when the light goes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
When the light comes on, anywhere across Hampshire, use this routine.
- Not in a rush on the side of Chalk Vale, not on a slope, not with the motor running: park and switch off first.
- Daft as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" aloud while you unscrew the cap does the trick — after you have located the filler and read it.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave the car on.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty.
- Only after that, start your car: close the cap, check a second time, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
Spot at step two or three that it has already gone into the diesel side? So stop right there. Skip stage five entirely.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, in Up Somborne?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start the engine. On plenty of diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so do not switch it on. Diluting it with extra diesel won't work, because AdBlue settles to the base instead of blending — and that's where your fuel is drawn from.
On a forecourt — Esso, Murco or another — the attendants will usually help roll the vehicle clear, if you ask. If you are on your own drive in Up Somborne, leave the car where it stands.
When your motor has run by now, pull over safely and turn it off. The next exit is where to come off when you're on the M3, under 10 miles from Up Somborne. Mileage counts — a short hop across Up Somborne makes a smaller job than heading under 10 miles to Winchester — so say roughly how far it went.
When our technicians turn up in Up Somborne, what occurs?
The van reaches the vehicle wherever it has come to rest — your own driveway, beside Rookley Manor, or outside King's Somborne Church of England Primary School. Those replies settle this work and our price, and so we ask what was put in, about how much, and if it's run. That price is given over the phone, before any van leaves.
Draining that tank comes next, then a thorough flush of the fuel system. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't wash out on its own — which is why that matters more with AdBlue than with petrol. Once the fuel filter has been cleaned — or replaced, if required — fresh diesel goes in, and finally your vehicle gets tested. The engine is started next and checked to make sure it runs correctly, all before we go.
If your 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 after dark. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Misfuelling cover is included in many insurance policies — and so make use of the wait to look at yours.
About Up Somborne and where it is
Up Somborne is a small village in Hampshire, situated on the banks of the River Test at an elevation of 53 metres. Up Somborne has a population of around 526 people and is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock. Up Somborne is located near the city of Winchester, which is approximately 5.8 miles away, and is also close to other nearby places such as Little Somborne and Ashley. Up Somborne is about 63.4 miles from London, making it a rural retreat within commuting distance of the capital.
Up Somborne and Hampshire: AdBlue drains across the area
As a village, Up Somborne shares its vans surrounding areas — Ashley, Westley — all the way through SO postcodes and the wider area beyond. Give a postcode beginning SO20 6, and the van arrives fastest.
Moving the car isn't necessary. Draining takes place on the spot, whether a driveway, a street by Little Somborne House, or a lay-by on the way to Fox Heath Copse. Ring and ask instead of guessing if you are close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain, like the back of St Mary's Church.
The short version for Up Somborne people
Read the cap before you tip. AdBlue in your diesel tank regardless? Leave the car switched off then call 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, across Hampshire.