AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Walton-on-Trent: How It Occurs and How to Prevent It
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? Then put this page down a moment, leave your ignition and engine off, and ring 0333 366 0103. Caught before the motor runs, it is normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is around Walton-on-Trent. Here before the event? Then what follows explains how it happens and how to stop it happening at all.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle, and its separate tank
Diesel goes to your motor — but many modern diesels driven about Walton-on-Trent and Barton-under-Needwood carry a second liquid as well. Its own tank holds it, and from there it is sent to the exhaust, where a spray cleans the gas.
Different tanks, separate fillers. Other vehicles keep the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; a lot of others place both together behind one flap. Topping up the diesel side at the pump happens all the time. Someone who has to stop and think where it goes normally tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less regularly. That gap is where the slip lives.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank happens in Walton-on-Trent
It's seldom carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
Hurry follows from the warning. Your car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank sends it into limp mode — so the top-up gets done quickly, before work on a drive off Main Street, or heading home in the car park at The Swan.
Then the car is unfamiliar. A hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and your hand hits for the cap it would have used on the old one.
No part stops the tip once it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Whether it happens in Barton Turn or the middle of Walton-on-Trent, it is the same few seconds.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
Whether a Walton-on-Trent forecourt or a drive over in Barton Green, take a couple of seconds on these before anything goes in.
- Blue and lettering: an AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually doesn't. Go by the cap, not where it sits.
- Plenty of motors fit AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- A label inside your fuel flap frequently shows which fuel goes where, on many cars. Check for it.
- Cannot see it beside your diesel filler? Then check beneath the bonnet or in your boot — the owner's manual says which.
- The previous driver knows. Check as you collect a rental or fleet car — at Burton-On-Trent's car park, perhaps — not when the light appears.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
Anywhere across Derbyshire the light comes on, here is a routine for that day.
- Not in a rush on the side of Coton Road, not on a slope, not with your engine running: park then switch off properly.
- Daft as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew the cap does the trick — after you've found your filler and read the cap.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Slowly is best, through the bottle's own spout, until it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Before you start the vehicle, shut the cap and check again that the diesel cap never came off.
Discover during the second or third stage that the bottle went into the wrong tank? That is where you stop. Skip stage five entirely.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, around Walton-on-Trent?
What follows is a short order of things, beginning with not starting the motor. Keep the ignition off too, because on many diesels switching it on by itself runs your pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where the fuel is pulled from — so do not top up with diesel to dilute it.
Ask the staff to help roll your car away from the petrol pump if you're on a forecourt — the the nearest petrol station, the Morrisons or anywhere else. If you are on your own driveway around Walton-on-Trent, leave it where it stands.
If the motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. The next exit means where to come off if you are on the M42, under 10 miles from Walton-on-Trent. Roughly how far did it go? Hopping across Walton-on-Trent is less a job than a trip of under 10 miles to Lichfield, so say.
Our arrival around Walton-on-Trent, and what takes place next
Our engineers come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside Walton On Trent CofE Primary and Nursery School, near Saint Laurence or on your own driveway. We ask what got in, about how much, and whether it's run, because those replies decide this work and our price. You get that quote by phone, before anybody sets off.
Then your tank is drained and the system cleaned thoroughly. More than with petrol, it counts with AdBlue: the crystals build up, some metals corrode, and nothing washes away unaided, however long it sits. The filter flushed or, where needed, replaced; fresh diesel in; then a test of your car. Then our technicians start it and make sure it runs smoothly before we leave.
Unrun vehicles usually mean a half-hour job after arrival. The equipment is fine on a busy filling station, and hushed enough for a driveway after dark. The insurer usually wants an engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and both are yours at the end. Payment comes on the day, with no deposit. Misfuelling cover is included in plenty of insurance policies — and so use the wait to look at yours.
About Walton-on-Trent
Walton-on-Trent is a village in Derbyshire, situated on the banks of the River Trent at an elevation of 57 metres. Walton-on-Trent has a mix of housing types, with semi-detached homes being predominant, and is located near to several smaller settlements including Barton Turn and Efflinch. Walton-on-Trent is close to the city of Lichfield, which is about 8 miles away, and is around 109 miles northwest of London. Walton-on-Trent has a population of approximately 843 residents.
AdBlue drains in Walton-on-Trent and across Derbyshire
Efflinch and Rosliston are among the places near Walton-on-Trent, a village, that the same vans cover, throughout DE postcodes. Give a postcode that starts DE12 8, and our van arrives fastest.
Moving the vehicle is not needed. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to Marlpit Spinney, a side street close to Walton on Trent Village Hall: our engineers drain the vehicle where it is. Assuming won't help at the back of Waterfront, on a border, or anywhere awkward to describe; ring and ask.
The short version for Walton-on-Trent motorists
Read the cap before you tip. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank anyway, leave the vehicle off then phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, anywhere in Derbyshire.