AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Walsgrave on Sowe: How It Happens and How to Prevent It
Stop here a minute when your diesel tank already has AdBlue in it: ignition off, motor off, and ring 0333 366 0103. Around Walsgrave on Sowe, finding it before your motor runs usually leaves 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 doesn't.
AdBlue in a diesel car: two tanks, two fillers
Diesel goes to the motor — yet many modern diesels driven round Walsgrave on Sowe and Wyken carry another fluid too. AdBlue's own tank holds it, and from there it goes to your exhaust, and there a spray treats the gas.
There is a filler on each tank. Many of cars share a single flap for both, while some put the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is topped up at the petrol pump all the time. The AdBlue side is topped up far less regularly, normally from a bottle, and normally by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. The error lives in that gap.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank occurs around Walsgrave on Sowe
Carelessness seldom explains it. Instead is three things coming up together.
Haste comes from the warning. The vehicle warns you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank puts it into limp mode — so the top-up happens quickly, before work on a drive off Woodway Lane, or on the way home in the car park outside Red Lion.
Then your car is unfamiliar. A hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and the hand gets to for the cap it would have used on the old one.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, so nothing stops the pour after it has started. It takes seconds, be it in Mount Pleasant or bang in the heart of Walsgrave on Sowe.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Check these before pouring, on a forecourt in Walsgrave on Sowe or a drive out in Potters Green. Seconds, that's all.
- Position misleads; the cap does not. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or carry the name "AdBlue" — diesel ones usually do not.
- Many cars fit AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- A label inside the fuel flap frequently shows which fuel goes where, on many vehicles. Check for it.
- The handbook says where it lives when your filler isn't next to the diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- The person who drove the car last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park at Coventry Arena, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
For the day the light comes on — anywhere it is around West Midlands — a simple routine to follow.
- Turn off once parked — flat ground, motor stopped, and not rushed by B4082 on the verge.
- Daft as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew the cap does the trick — after you have located your filler and read the cap.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave it on.
- Slowly is best, through the bottle's own spout, till it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check again. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start your car.
Discover at the second or third stage that the bottle went into the wrong tank? That's where you stop. Leave out stage five entirely.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Walsgrave on Sowe?
Don't start the engine: that is where the short order of things starts. The fuel pump runs on many diesels the moment your ignition goes on — so keep it off. Do not top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is drawn from.
If you're at a forecourt, whether it's the BP or the Texaco, ask the staff to help roll the vehicle clear of the pump. At home in Walsgrave on Sowe? So the vehicle stays put.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if the engine has already run. On the M69, under a mile from Walsgrave on Sowe, that means the next junction. A short hop across Walsgrave on Sowe is a smaller job than a run towards Coventry, under 3 miles away, so tell us roughly how far it went.
Our arrival in Walsgrave on Sowe, and what happens next
Our engineers come to the vehicle wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside Walsgrave Church of England Academy, close to St Mary's or on your own drive. Those replies settle the work and the quote, so our technicians ask what got in, roughly how much, and whether it's run. No one sets off before you've heard our price over the phone.
Then your tank is emptied and your system purged thoroughly. More than with petrol, it matters here: crystals build up, certain metals are attacked, and nothing clears out unaided, no matter how long it is left. The filter cleaned or, where needed, replaced; clean diesel in; and then a check of the car. We do not leave until it has been fired up and is running correctly.
Most jobs are finished in roughly half an hour after our technicians get there, as long as the motor hasn't run — and the pumps we use are fine on a busy forecourt yet quiet after dark outside a house. The insurer usually wants the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and you get both at the end. Payment is on the day, with no money upfront. Misfuelling cover is part of plenty of insurance policies — so make use of the wait to check yours.
About Walsgrave on Sowe
Walsgrave on Sowe is a suburban area located on the River Sowe in the West Midlands, with a mix of semi-detached housing and local amenities. Walsgrave on Sowe sits near the city of Coventry, approximately 2.9 miles from the city centre, and is close to nearby places such as Mount Pleasant and Woodway Park. Walsgrave on Sowe has a population of around 6037 people and is situated at an elevation of 80 metres, near the confluence of the River Sowe and the surrounding countryside.
AdBlue drains in Walsgrave on Sowe and across West Midlands
Walsgrave on Sowe is a residential suburb, and our vans that cover it also work the towns around it, Woodway Park and Henley Green among them, across the CV postcode area. Quote a postcode that starts CV2 2, and the van arrives quickest.
Shifting the vehicle isn't necessary. Wherever it stands — near Walsgrave Baptist Church, on a layby en route to Potters Green Corridor, at home — that's where it gets emptied. If you are close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of Wood's Mini Market, ring and ask rather than assuming.
The short version for Walsgrave on Sowe motorists
Read the cap before you pour. AdBlue in the diesel tank regardless? Keep the vehicle off and ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, across West Midlands.