Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Victoria Park: Why It Occurs
Leave the motor and ignition off then call 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait when AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Around Victoria Park, finding it before your engine turns usually leaves a drain and a full flush where it stands. The remainder of this page covers why it occurs and how to make sure it does not — useful if you are reading ahead of time.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel car
Diesel feeds your engine — but many current diesels seen about Victoria Park and Bristol hold another fluid as well. Its own tank holds it, and from there it goes to the exhaust, and there spraying cleans the gas.
Each tank has its own filler. 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. Diesel gets filled at every filling station visit, week in, week out. Far less regularly, the AdBlue side is topped up — mostly from a bottle, by someone thinking about where it goes. It is in the gap that the error lives.
AdBlue in your diesel tank around Victoria Park: how it takes place
Rarely is it carelessness: usually three things line up.
On a drive off Chesterfield Buildings before work, or in the car park at Victoria on the way home: that's where the hurried top-up happens. Why the rush? As AdBlue runs low your car warns you, and once it is gone, limp mode kicks in.
New-to-you cars come next, as well. Hire cars, new motors and company cars put their fillers in new places, and habit goes for the cap it used on the old one.
Lastly, the bottle fits: diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it goes in just as easily, and after the pour begins, no part halts it. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Victoria Park or out in Clifton.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Be it a Victoria Park forecourt or a driveway over in Kingsdown, take a couple of seconds on these before anything is poured in.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is frequently blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap usually is not. Read it rather than going by where it sits.
- Look at the size: the smaller neck is, on many vehicles, the AdBlue one.
- A label inside your fuel flap frequently shows which fuel goes where, on plenty of motors. Look for it.
- Cannot find it beside your diesel inlet? In that case check below the bonnet or in your boot — the owner's manual says where.
- Collecting a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park outside Clifton Down? Ask the person who drove it last before you set off, not when the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
For the day the warning comes on — wherever it is around Bristol — a simple routine to use.
- Pull in somewhere level, engine off, with time in hand — never hurried on the side of Oakfield Place.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after finding the AdBlue filler and read it. Daft, perhaps, yet it works.
- The two behind a single flap? Then make sure the cap on your diesel filler stays closed before raising the bottle.
- Finish once your tank is topped up or the bottle is empty; before that, tip slowly through the own spout.
- Shut the cap, then look again — confirm the diesel filler remained shut throughout. Only then, start the vehicle.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Don't go on to step five.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Victoria Park?
The short order of things, beginning with no starting the engine. The fuel pump starts on many diesels as soon as your ignition goes on — and so keep it off. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where the fuel is drawn from — so don't top up with diesel to thin it.
At a forecourt — Esso, Asda or any other — the attendants will usually help push your car away, if you ask. If you are on your own driveway in Victoria Park, leave it where it is.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if your motor has already run. On the M32, under 3 miles from Victoria Park, that means the next junction. A short hop across Victoria Park is a smaller job than a run towards Bristol, under a mile away, so tell us roughly how far it went.
What occurs when we get there in Victoria Park
Outside Christ Church Church of England Primary School, close to St. Paul's Church or on your own driveway: wherever your car has stopped, we come to it. Both the work and our price rest on three replies — what liquid, which quantity, and whether it's run — so our engineers ask. You get that quote by phone, before anybody heads out.
Then the tank is cleared and the system cleaned thoroughly. Unlike petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and attacks certain fuel-system metals, and neither washes out unaided. That is why it counts more. The filter cleaned or, if needed, replaced; clean diesel in; and then a check of the car. Next our technicians fire it up and check it runs properly before leaving.
If your motor has not run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. It's worth checking your policy while we travel to you: misfuelling cover comes with many policies.
About Victoria Park itself
Victoria Park is a suburban area located just north of the city centre of Bristol, at an elevation of around 62 metres. Victoria Park sits in a densely populated part of the city, with nearby areas including Clifton, Tyndalls Park, and Clifton Wood. Victoria Park is characterized by a high proportion of flat dwellings, reflecting its urban setting. Victoria Park is close to the amenities and services of Bristol, being only 0.6 miles from the city centre.
Victoria Park and Bristol: AdBlue drains across the area
Over BS postcodes, our teams covering Victoria Park — a residential suburb — work the nearby spots too, Clifton Wood and Tyndalls Park among them. Fastest of all: give a BS8 1 postcode for our van.
Your car does not need to shift. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to Arlington Garden, a side street near The Bristol Improv Theatre: we drain the vehicle where it sits. Ring and ask rather than assuming if you are near a border, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of Lido.
Victoria Park people: the short version
Read the cap before you pour. Still AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can drain it where it stands, wherever in Bristol: keep the vehicle off then phone 0333 366 0103.