Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Weavering Street: Why It Happens
Keep the motor and ignition off and call 0333 366 0103 first — the rest can wait when AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Normally, when the motor has not run, it is drained and thoroughly cleaned where the car is around Weavering Street. Reading before the event? Then what follows explains how it happens and what to stop it ever happening.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel vehicle
Plenty of modern diesels around Bearsted, like those in Weavering Street, run on two fluids; the engine takes just the diesel. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into your exhaust gas and cleans it.
Every tank has one filler of its own. Under one flap, next to each other: that's the arrangement on a lot of cars. On others, AdBlue's filler sits under the bonnet or in the boot instead. Topping up your diesel side at the pump happens all the time. Someone who has to stop and work out where it goes normally fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less regularly. The mistake lives in that gap.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank take place in Weavering Street?
It is hardly ever carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
Haste follows from the warning. The vehicle warns you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank puts the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up gets done in a rush, before work on a drive off Averenches Road, or on the way home in the car park at Butchers Block at the Bell.
The old car's cap is where the hand reaches — but a rental car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers elsewhere. That's a second factor: a new car.
Lastly, the bottle fits: diesel filler or AdBlue one, it goes in as easily, and after the pour starts, no part stops it. Ware Street or the middle of Weavering Street: it is the same few seconds either way.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
A few seconds is all the checks take — so run through them before you tip anything, on a driveway in Detling or a forecourt around Weavering Street.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is frequently blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap usually is not. Read it rather than going by position.
- On many vehicles, the size gives it away: AdBlue has the smaller filler neck.
- Lift the filler flap and check for a label — many motors show which belongs in each filler right there.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that's where your filler is if it is not by the diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- The person who drove it last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park at Bearsted, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
Anywhere across Kent the light comes on, this is a routine for the day.
- Not in a rush on the side of Creve Coeur Close, not on a slope, not with your motor running: park then switch off first.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and it does the trick.
- The two under one flap? So confirm the lid on your diesel filler is still shut before lifting the bottle.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Before starting the car, close the cap and look again that your diesel cap never opened off.
Discover during the second or third stage that the bottle went in the diesel tank? That is where you stop. Don't go on to stage five.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Weavering Street?
Do not start your motor: that is how the short order of things begins. Don't switch your ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Don't top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where your fuel is sucked from.
If you are on a forecourt, whether it is the the nearest petrol station or the Shell, ask the attendants to help roll the vehicle clear of the pump. Your own drive around Weavering Street is where it should stay.
If the motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. The next junction means where to come off when you're on the M20, under a mile from Weavering Street. A short hop across Weavering Street is a smaller job than a run towards Southend-on-Sea, under 25 miles away, and so tell us roughly how far it went.
What takes place when we turn up around Weavering Street
We come to the vehicle wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside Leigh Academy Bearsted, close to Weavering Village Hall or on your own driveway. Both the work and the price depend on three replies — which fluid, which quantity, and whether it's run — so we ask. On the call itself, you hear the price — ahead of anything else.
Next: draining, then a full flush of the whole system. Much more than with petrol, it matters here: the crystals form, some metals are attacked, and nothing washes away on its own, however long it is left. The filter flushed or, where it must be, replaced; clean diesel in; then a test of the car. The engine is started next and tested to confirm it runs correctly, all before our technicians head off.
Most jobs are done in roughly half an hour once our technicians arrive, provided your motor hasn't run — and the pumps we use are safe on a busy forecourt and quiet at night outside a house. No money upfront; you settle up that day. At the end, a VAT invoice and the report from the engineer go to you for the insurer. It is worth checking your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover comes with plenty of policies.
About Weavering Street, briefly
Weavering Street is a suburban area in Kent, situated inland at an elevation of 59 metres, and forms part of the wider commuter belt around London. Weavering Street is located near several smaller settlements, including Ware Street, Roseacre, and Grove Green, and is approximately 19 miles from Southend-on-Sea. Weavering Street has a population of around 3650 people, predominantly living in detached houses.
AdBlue drains across Kent, Weavering Street included
Roseacre and Grove Green are among the places around Weavering Street, a residential suburb, that the same vans cover, over ME postcodes. Our van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting ME14 4.
Shifting the car isn't needed. Wherever it stands — beside Bearsted Library, in a layby heading to Weavering Park, at home — that is where it is cleared. Assuming doesn't help behind King George V Memorial Hall, close to a border, or anywhere hard to describe; phone and check.
For Weavering Street people, the short version
First, the cap; after that, the pour. AdBlue in the diesel tank after all? Keep the vehicle off then call 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, throughout Kent.