Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Wainfleet All Saints: Why It Occurs
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? Then set this page down a moment, keep your ignition and motor off, and call 0333 366 0103. Usually, if the engine has not turned, it is emptied and thoroughly flushed where your vehicle is in Wainfleet All Saints. Reading before the event? Then the rest explains why it comes about and what to stop it happening at all.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle: two tanks, two fillers
Diesel goes to the engine — but plenty of newer diesels seen round Wainfleet All Saints and Thorpe St Peter carry another liquid as well. Its own tank keeps it, and from there it goes to the exhaust, where a spray treats the fumes.
Each tank has its own filler. Many of motors share a single flap for both, whereas others move the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. Diesel gets filled at every filling station call-out, again and again. Far less commonly, the AdBlue side gets topped up — mostly from a bottle, by someone working out where it goes. It is in that gap that the mistake lives.
Wainfleet All Saints: how AdBlue in your diesel tank happens
Rarely is it carelessness: usually three things line up.
Haste comes from the warning. Your car tells 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 B1195, or on the way home in the car park outside Woolpack Hotel.
The old car's cap is where the hand reaches — but a rental car, a new car or a company car keeps the fillers somewhere else. That's the second thing: an unfamiliar motor.
A spout-topped bottle finds no resistance at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. And so the tip, after begun, keeps on. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Wainfleet All Saints or out in Wainfleet St Mary.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Before you pour anything, whether on a driveway in Wainfleet Bank or a forecourt in Wainfleet All Saints, check these. They take a few seconds.
- Blue and lettering: an AdBlue cap is frequently blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually doesn't. Go by the cap, not where it sits.
- Check the size: the smaller neck is, on plenty of cars, the AdBlue one.
- Check inside the fuel flap: plenty of motors carry a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that is where the filler sits if it's not by your diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- The previous driver knows. Ask when you collect a hire car or company car — from Wainfleet's car park, say — not once the warning appears.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever in Lincolnshire that is.
- Not in a rush on the side of Magdalen Road, not on a slope, not with your engine running: park and switch off properly.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once finding the AdBlue filler and read it. Silly, yes, yet it works.
- Both under one flap? So confirm the cap on the diesel filler stays closed before raising the bottle.
- Finish when that tank fills or the bottle is empty; before that, tip gently through its own spout.
- Close the cap, and check once more — making sure the diesel filler stayed shut the whole time. After that, start the car.
Discover during the second or third step that AdBlue went into the wrong filler? That is where you stop. Stage five is out.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, around Wainfleet All Saints?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start your engine. On plenty of diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so do not switch the car on. Diluting it with extra diesel fails, since AdBlue settles to the bottom instead of mixing — and that's where the fuel is drawn from.
If you're at a forecourt, whether it is the UK or the Lomax Corner Garage, ask the attendants to help roll the car clear of the petrol pump. At home around Wainfleet All Saints? So your car remains put.
Where your engine has been run by now, pull over safely and turn it off. The next exit is where to come off when you're on the M180, under 50 miles from Wainfleet All Saints. About how far did it go? Crossing Wainfleet All Saints is smaller work than a run of under 50 miles towards Lincoln, so tell us.
When we get there in Wainfleet All Saints, what takes place?
We come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside The Wainfleet Magdalen Church of England/Methodist School, close to Coronation Hall or on your own drive. What fluid was put in, the amount, and whether it ran: our engineers ask because those answers decide both work and quote. No one sets off until you have had our price over the phone.
Then your tank is emptied and the system cleaned thoroughly. With AdBlue that matters more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't wash out on its own. Testing comes at the end: before that, fresh diesel goes in, and the fuel filter is flushed or replaced if necessary. After that we start the car and check it runs correctly before we leave.
Most jobs are finished in roughly half an hour once our engineers get there, provided your motor hasn't run — and the pumps our technicians use are fine on a busy forecourt and quiet at night beside a house. Paying happens on the day, not upfront, and you are given the paperwork an insurer asks for: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it's worth checking yours while we are on the way.
About Wainfleet All Saints, for a moment
Wainfleet All Saints is a small town on the east coast of England, situated in Lincolnshire near the mouth of the Steeping River. Wainfleet All Saints has a low elevation of around 8 metres above sea level and is close to nearby places such as Wainfleet St Mary and Croft. Wainfleet All Saints is characterised by its predominantly detached housing stock, reflecting its role as a residential centre in the area. Wainfleet All Saints is located approximately 33 miles from the city of Lincoln and 111 miles from London.
Wainfleet All Saints and Lincolnshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Wainfleet All Saints is a coastal town, and the vans that cover it also work the towns around it, Croft and Wainfleet Tofts among them, across the PE postcode area. Give a postcode beginning PE24 4, and the van arrives fastest.
Shifting the car is not needed. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to the green space at the edge of the village, a side street close to OAP Hall: our engineers drain the vehicle where it is. If you're close to a border, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of Wainfleet Library, ring and ask rather than guessing.
For Wainfleet All Saints drivers, the short version
Before you pour, read the cap. Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, anywhere around Lincolnshire, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank all the same — so leave it off and ring 0333 366 0103.