Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Upper Landywood: Why It Happens
Stop here for a moment when the diesel tank already has AdBlue in it: ignition off, motor off, then call 0333 366 0103. Usually, if your engine has not turned, it is drained and fully rinsed where your vehicle is in Upper Landywood. If you are reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it happens and how to make sure it doesn't.
AdBlue in a diesel motor: two tanks, two fillers
No single liquid but two: that is what many newer diesels around Upper Landywood and Cheslyn Hay carry, with diesel for the motor. AdBlue goes to the exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Different tanks, different fillers. Many of vehicles share a single flap for both, while others put the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is fuelled at the pump all the time. Someone who has to stop and think where it goes normally tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less regularly. The error lives in that gap.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank happen around Upper Landywood?
Rarely is it carelessness: normally three things coincide.
Hurry follows from the warning. The vehicle warns you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank puts it into limp mode — so the top-up gets done in a rush, before work on a driveway off Upper Landywood Lane, or on the way home in the car park at The Malt.
Then your car is strange. A hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and the hand hits for the cap it would have used on the old one.
Third, the spout fits: a diesel filler or AdBlue one, it slides in just as readily, and once the pour begins, nothing stops it. Whether it happens in Landywood or the middle of Upper Landywood, it's the same few seconds.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
A couple of seconds is all the checks take — so run through them before you tip anything, on a driveway in Springhill or a forecourt around Upper Landywood.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap normally isn't. Read it instead of going by where it sits.
- The size. On many vehicles the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Plenty of cars say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If the filler isn't by the diesel cap, it is in your boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- The person who drove the car last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park at Landywood, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around Staffordshire that is.
- Not in a rush on the side of Streets lane, not on a slope, not with the engine running: park then switch off properly.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it works.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave the car on.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Only after that, start your car: close the cap, check again, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
Discover during the second or third stage that AdBlue went into the wrong tank? That's where you stop. Stage five stays off limits.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Upper Landywood?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start your motor. Leave the ignition off too, because on plenty of diesels it alone runs the pump. Thinning it with more diesel fails, since AdBlue settles to the bottom instead of blending — and that's where your fuel is sucked from.
On a forecourt — BP, another forecourt nearby or another — the attendants will normally help roll the vehicle clear, when you ask. Leave it where it is if you are on your own driveway around Upper Landywood.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if your engine has already run. Upper Landywood lies under 3 miles from the M6; there, take the first junction. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Wolverhampton, under 10 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Upper Landywood.
Our arrival in Upper Landywood, and what takes place next
Anywhere the vehicle came to rest, be it outside Landywood Primary School, beside Great Wyrley Community Centre or at home, the van comes to it. The replies settle the work and the price, and so our engineers ask what went in, roughly how much, and if it's run. No one heads out until you have had our price by phone.
The system is then rinsed thoroughly, after your tank is cleared. More than with petrol, it counts here: the crystals form, certain metals corrode, and nothing clears away unaided, no matter how long it is left. The fuel filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and your car is tested. Before we leave, our technicians start the engine and confirm that it's running properly.
Unrun cars mostly mean a half-hour visit after the moment we arrive. The equipment is safe on a busy forecourt, and hushed enough for a driveway late at night. No money upfront; you settle up on the day. At the end, a VAT invoice and the report from the engineer are handed to you for your insurer. Wrong-fuel cover is part of many insurance policies — so use the wait to check yours.
About Upper Landywood and where it is
Upper Landywood is a suburban area in Staffordshire, situated approximately 6 miles from Wolverhampton and 113 miles northwest of London. Upper Landywood sits at an elevation of around 158 metres, in a gently undulating landscape of inland England. Upper Landywood has a mix of housing types, but semi-detached homes are particularly prevalent in the area. Upper Landywood is close to nearby places such as Landywood, Warstone, and Newtown.
AdBlue drains round Upper Landywood, and Staffordshire beyond
Upper Landywood is a residential suburb, and the vans that cover it also work the places around it, Warstone and Newtown among them, across the WS postcode area. The van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting WS6 7.
Moving the car isn't necessary. Wherever it sits — beside St Andrew, on a lay-by heading to Black Country Millennium Forest, at home — that's where it gets cleared. Ring and ask instead of assuming if you're close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of Salem Church.
Upper Landywood people: the short version
First, the cap; then, the tip. AdBlue in the diesel tank regardless? Keep the vehicle switched off and phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, throughout Staffordshire.