Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Wallbridge Park: Why It Happens
Keep your motor and ignition off and call 0333 366 0103 now — reading can wait when AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. A drain plus a full flush, carried out right where the car stands around Wallbridge Park, is usually all it takes if found before your motor runs. Here before the event? In that case what follows covers why it comes about and what to stop it happening at all.
AdBlue in a diesel car: two tanks, two fillers
Plenty of newer diesels on the roads about Wallbridge Park and Bridge End carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your engine. AdBlue goes to the exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Each tank has its own filler. Other vehicles put the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; plenty more have the two together under one flap. Filling the diesel side at the petrol pump goes on constantly. Someone who has to stop and think where it goes usually fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less commonly. The mistake grows in the gap between the two.
AdBlue in the diesel tank in Wallbridge Park: how it happens
Rarely is it carelessness: normally three things coincide.
On a driveway off Beggars Lane before work, or in the car park at Prince of Wales on the way home: that is where the hurried top-up happens. Why the rush? As AdBlue gets low the vehicle tells you, and if it's gone, limp mode follows.
The old car's filler is where the hand reaches — but a rental car, a new car or a company car keeps the fillers elsewhere. That's the second factor: an unfamiliar motor.
Nothing stops the pour after it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. It takes a few seconds, be it in Woodcroft or bang in the heart of Wallbridge Park.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Before you pour anything, whether on a driveway in Leek or a forecourt around Wallbridge Park, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap normally isn't. Read it instead of going by where it sits.
- Look at the size: the smaller neck is, on many motors, the AdBlue one.
- Open the filler flap and look for a label — many vehicles show what goes in each filler just there.
- Can't find it next to your diesel inlet? In that case check beneath the bonnet or in the boot — the owner's manual says which.
- Check with the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — when you pick up a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park at Congleton.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
The day the light goes on, wherever in Staffordshire, use this routine.
- Not in a rush on the side of Wallbridge Precinct, not on a slope, not with your engine running: park then switch off first.
- Silly as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew the cap works — after you have located your filler and read it.
- Both behind a single flap? So make sure the cap on your diesel filler stays closed before raising the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Only then, start the car: close the cap, check again, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Skip stage five altogether.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Wallbridge Park?
The short order of things, beginning with no starting the engine. On plenty of diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so don't switch it on. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where the fuel is sucked from — so don't top up with diesel to dilute it.
On a forecourt — Morrisons, Sainsbury's or another — the attendants will normally help push the vehicle away, if you ask. Leave it where it is if you are on your own drive in Wallbridge Park.
When your engine has run by now, pull over safely then turn the vehicle off. Come off the M6 — under 15 miles out of Wallbridge Park — at the first junction. A short hop across Wallbridge Park is a smaller job than a run towards Stoke-on-Trent, under 10 miles away, and so tell us about how far it went.
What happens when our technicians arrive in Wallbridge Park
Our engineers come to the car wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside Woodcroft Academy, near The Salvation Army Leek or on your own driveway. Both the work and our price depend on three answers — what fluid, which amount, and if it's run — so our technicians ask. No one sets off until you have had our price over the phone.
Draining the tank comes next, followed by a full flush of the fuel system. 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 does not wash out on its own. Filter flushed or, if needed, swapped; clean diesel in; then a check of the vehicle. We don't leave until it has been started and is running properly.
Using pumps safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs where the motor hasn't run need about half an hour once our technicians are there. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. It is worth checking your insurance while we travel to you: misfuelling cover comes with plenty of policies.
About Wallbridge Park, for a moment
Wallbridge Park is a suburban area located on the riverside in Staffordshire, with a mix of housing types but predominantly detached homes. Wallbridge Park sits near the cities of Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme, and is close to smaller communities like Woodcroft and Westwood. Wallbridge Park has a population of around 4034 people and is situated at an elevation of 173 metres. Wallbridge Park is also within commuting distance to larger cities, with London approximately 136.5 miles away.
AdBlue drains around Wallbridge Park, and Staffordshire beyond
As a residential suburb, Wallbridge Park has the same vans as nearby areas — Westwood, Barnfields — right through ST postcodes and the wider area beyond. Give a postcode beginning ST13 8, and the van arrives quickest.
No need to shift your car. The drain takes place right there, whether a drive, a road near The Gateway Church, or a lay-by on the way to St Edwards Academy sports ground. Guessing won't help behind Catholic Church of Saint Mary, on a boundary, or somewhere awkward to pin down; ring and ask.
In short, for Wallbridge Park motorists
Read the cap before you pour. Still AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will drain it wherever it stands, wherever across Staffordshire: keep it off and phone 0333 366 0103.