AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Weeke: How It Occurs and How to Prevent It
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? Then put this page aside for now, keep your ignition and engine off, then phone 0333 366 0103. Caught before your engine runs, it is usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is around Weeke. The rest of this page covers why it takes place and how to ensure it doesn't — useful if you're reading before it has happened.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
Plenty of newer diesels around Sleepers Hill, like those in Weeke, run on two liquids; your motor gets just the diesel. The exhaust, not the engine, is where AdBlue goes: dosed into the fumes to fresh it, from a separate tank.
There is a filler for each tank. Under one flap, side by side: that is the layout on many vehicles. On others, AdBlue's filler is beneath the bonnet or in your boot instead. The diesel side is filled at the petrol pump all the time. A driver who has to stop and think where it goes normally tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less often. The mistake grows in the gap between the two.
AdBlue in the diesel tank in Weeke: how it happens
Carelessness seldom causes it. What does is three things lining up at once.
First, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a warning from the vehicle, and running dry means limp mode — hence a hurried top-up, maybe before work off Stockbridge Road, or outside Roebuck Inn on the way home that evening.
Then your car is unfamiliar. A hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and your hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old one.
No part halts the pour once it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Fulflood or the heart of Weeke: it is the same few seconds in both.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Before you pour anything, whether on a drive in Hyde or a forecourt in Weeke, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- Colour and lettering: an AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually doesn't. Trust the cap, not where it sits.
- The size. On many vehicles the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- A label inside your fuel flap often shows which fuel goes where, on plenty of vehicles. Check for it.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that is where the filler sits if it's not by the diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- Collecting a hire or company car, say at the car park at Winchester? Check with the person who drove the car last before leaving, rather than once the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
Wherever around Hampshire the light comes on, here is a routine for that day.
- Not in a rush on the side of Malmesbury Gardens, not on a slope, not with the 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 daft and it does the trick.
- Both behind one flap? Then confirm the lid on the diesel side stays closed ahead of raising the bottle.
- Slowly is best, through the bottle's own spout, till it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Shut the cap, and check once more — making sure the diesel cap stayed closed throughout. After that, start the vehicle.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Leave out stage five altogether.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Weeke?
Short list, then. Top of that: the engine stays unstarted. Keep the ignition off too, because on plenty of diesels switching it on by itself runs your fuel pump. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is drawn from — so do not top up with diesel to thin it.
If you're at a forecourt, whether it's the Esso or the BP, ask the attendants to help roll your car away from the petrol pump. Leave it where it is if you're on your own drive around Weeke.
Already started? Pull over once it's sensible, then turn off. On the M3, under 3 miles from Weeke, that means the next exit. About how far did it go? Hopping across Weeke is less work than a run of under 3 miles towards Winchester, so tell us.
What happens when our technicians arrive in Weeke
Our technicians come to the vehicle wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside Weeke Primary School, near John Wesley Methodist Church, Weeke or on your own drive. Both the work and the quote depend on three replies — what fluid, what amount, and if it's run — so we ask. On the phone call itself, you hear our quote — before dispatch.
The system is then rinsed thoroughly, once that tank is drained. Much more than with petrol, it counts here: crystals form, certain metals are attacked, and none of it washes away unaided, no matter how long it sits. Once the fuel filter has been flushed — or replaced, where needed — fresh diesel is added, and finally the car gets tested. The motor is started next and tested to confirm it runs smoothly, all before our technicians go.
Most jobs are finished in roughly half an hour after we get there, provided the engine has not run — and the pumps our engineers use are fine on a busy forecourt and quiet after dark outside a house. No money upfront; you settle up on the day. Afterwards, a VAT invoice and the report from the engineer go to you for the insurer. It's worth looking at your insurance while we travel to you: misfuelling cover is included with many policies.
About Weeke itself
Weeke is a suburban area located near the city of Winchester in Hampshire, sitting at an elevation of 74 metres above sea level. Weeke is characterized by its semi-detached housing and is situated close to nearby places such as Fulflood, Harestock, and West Hill. Weeke is home to a population of approximately 5298 residents and is about 1.3 miles from Winchester city centre. Weeke is also within commuting distance to London, being around 60.2 miles away.
AdBlue drains round Weeke, and Hampshire beyond
Being a residential suburb, Weeke has the same vans as nearby places — Harestock, West Hill — right through SO postcodes and the wider area around them. A postcode starting SO22 5 gets the van to you fastest.
The vehicle doesn't need to move. Wherever it sits — beside Saint Matthew's, on a layby heading to Royal Winchester Golf Club, on a drive — that's where it gets emptied. If you are near a border, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of Saint Barnabas, ring and ask instead of assuming.
For Weeke drivers, the short version
Before you pour, read the cap. Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, anywhere in Hampshire, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank all the same — so leave the vehicle off then call 0333 366 0103.