AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Walpole Cross Keys: How It Happens and How to Avoid It
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your engine and the ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103. Around Walpole Cross Keys, catching it before your engine runs normally means draining and a full flush where it stands. If you are reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it takes place and how to make sure it does not.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle, and its separate tank
Plenty of current diesels on the roads around Walpole Cross Keys and Orange Row carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your motor. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into your exhaust gas and cleans it.
There is a filler on every tank. Under one flap, side by side: that's the arrangement on a lot of vehicles. On others, AdBlue's filler is beneath the bonnet or in the boot instead. The diesel side is topped up at the petrol pump all the time. Far less regularly, the AdBlue side is filled — mostly from a bottle, by a person thinking about where it goes. The error lives in that gap.
Walpole Cross Keys: how AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs
Carelessness seldom explains it. What does is three things coming up at once.
On a drive off Station Road before work, or in the car park outside the pub in the village on the way home: that is where the rushed top-up happens. Why the rush? As AdBlue gets low your car warns you, and once it is gone, limp mode kicks in.
The old car's filler is where the hand reaches — but a hire car, a new vehicle or a company car keeps the fillers somewhere else. That is a second factor: a strange motor.
No part halts the pour after it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Walpole Cross Keys or out in Emorsgate.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Before you pour anything, whether on a drive in Wash Dyke or a forecourt in Walpole Cross Keys, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- Colour and lettering: an AdBlue cap is frequently blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally does not. Trust the cap, not its position.
- On plenty of cars, size tells: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- Check inside the fuel flap: many cars carry a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- The handbook says where it lives if your filler isn't next to your diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- Picking up a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park at Kings Lynn? Ask whoever drove the vehicle last before you set off, rather than once the light goes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
On the day the warning comes on — wherever it is across Norfolk — a routine to use.
- Stop somewhere level, engine off, with time in hand — never rushing on the side of Lynn Road.
- Daft as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" aloud while you unscrew the cap does the trick — after you've located the filler and read it.
- The two under one flap? Then make sure the lid on your diesel filler stays closed ahead of raising the bottle.
- Stop when the tank fills or the bottle is empty; before that, pour gently through the own spout.
- Only then, start the vehicle: close the cap, check again, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you have already poured into your diesel side. Never go on to stage five.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, in Walpole Cross Keys?
Don't start the motor: that's where the short order of things starts. On many diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so don't switch the vehicle on. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where the fuel is sucked from — so do not top up with diesel to thin it.
At a forecourt — the nearest petrol station, Shell or another — the attendants will normally help push your car clear, when you ask. On your own drive in Walpole Cross Keys? So the car remains where it is.
If your motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. Leave the A1(M) — under 50 miles out of Walpole Cross Keys — at the first junction. A short hop across Walpole Cross Keys is a smaller job than a run towards Peterborough, under 25 miles away, and so tell us about how far it went.
When we get there around Walpole Cross Keys, what occurs?
Outside Walpole Cross Keys Primary School, close to Walpole Cross Keys Village Sign or on your own drive: wherever the vehicle has stopped, we come to it. Our technicians ask what was put in, about how much, and whether it has run, because those answers decide this work and our price. You get that quote by phone, before anybody sets off.
The system is then cleaned thoroughly, after that tank is cleared. More than with petrol, it counts with AdBlue: the crystals build up, certain metals corrode, and none of it clears away unaided, no matter how long it sits. Once your filter is flushed — or renewed, where needed — fresh diesel is added, and then your car is tested. Before leaving, our engineers fire it up and confirm that it is running properly.
Using pumps safe on a busy forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs in which your motor has not run take roughly half an hour after our engineers are there. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Walpole Cross Keys, briefly
Walpole Cross Keys is a small village in Norfolk, situated in a low-lying area of the Fens, with an elevation of around 4 metres. Walpole Cross Keys lies near the villages of Emorsgate and South Green, and is close to the larger village of Walpole St Andrew. Walpole Cross Keys has a population of approximately 562 people, living in predominantly detached housing.
AdBlue drains around Walpole Cross Keys, and Norfolk beyond
South Green and Walpole St Andrew are among the places near Walpole Cross Keys, a rural village, that the same vans cover, over PE postcodes. Quote a postcode that starts PE14 7, and the van gets there fastest.
There's no need to shift your car. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to Walpole, a side street close to Saint Andrew: our technicians drain it where it sits. Awkward to explain, like the back of Walpole Saint Andrew Village Sign? By a county line? Checking beats assuming, and so ring.
In short, for Walpole Cross Keys motorists
Read the cap before you pour. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, anywhere in Norfolk, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank all the same — so leave the vehicle off and call 0333 366 0103.