Wereton: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? In that case set this page down a moment, keep your ignition and motor off, then call 0333 366 0103. Caught before the motor runs, it's generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is around Wereton. Here in advance? In that case the rest covers why it happens and what to stop it ever happening.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel vehicle
No single liquid but two: that's what plenty of newer diesels near Wereton and The Quarry carry, with diesel feeding the motor. The exhaust, not your engine, is where AdBlue ends up: dosed into the gas to fresh them, from its own tank.
Every tank comes with one filler of its own. Some motors keep the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; plenty more place both side by side under one flap. The diesel side is filled at the petrol pump all the time. Seldom topped up, AdBlue usually comes out of a bottle, tipped by a driver who has to stop and think what cap to use. The slip lives in that gap.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank take place around Wereton?
Seldom is it carelessness: usually three things line up.
First, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a message from the vehicle, and running dry means limp mode — hence a rushed top-up, perhaps before work off Queen Street, or at Butchers Arms on the way home that evening.
New-to-you motors come next, as well. Hire cars, new cars and company motors put their fillers differently, and habit reaches for the cap it used on the old one.
Nothing stops the tip after it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. It takes a few seconds, whether out in Audley or bang in the heart of Wereton.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Before you tip anything, whether on a driveway in Halmer End or a forecourt in Wereton, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap normally is not. Read it rather than going by position.
- The size. On many vehicles the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Lift the filler flap and look for a label — many motors show what goes in which filler right there.
- The handbook. If your filler isn't by your diesel cap, it's in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- The previous driver knows. Check as you collect a rental or company car — from Alsager's car park, perhaps — rather than when the warning comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
When the light comes on, anywhere in Staffordshire, follow this routine.
- Stop somewhere level, engine off, with time in hand — not rushing on the side of Maddock Street.
- Silly as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap works — once you've found your filler and read it.
- The two under one flap? So make sure the lid on your diesel side stays closed before raising the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check a second time. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
Spot at step two or three that it has already gone into your diesel side? So stop just there. Skip step five entirely.
Wereton: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Short order, then. First: the engine remains unstarted. On plenty of diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so don't switch the car on. Do not top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where the fuel is pulled from.
On a forecourt — Shell, Esso or another — the attendants will usually help roll the car away, when you ask. At home around Wereton? So the vehicle stays put.
Already run? Pull over when it is sensible, then turn off. Come off the M6 — under 3 miles out of Wereton — at the next junction. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Stoke-on-Trent, under 10 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Wereton.
When our engineers arrive in Wereton, what takes place?
Our engineers come to the vehicle wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside Ravensmead Primary School, close to Audley Theatre or on your own driveway. Both the work and the quote depend on three replies — which fluid, which amount, and whether it has run — so we ask. No one sets off before you have had the price by phone.
Your system is then flushed thoroughly, after that tank is cleared. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and attacks some fuel-system metals, and neither washes out unaided. That is why it counts more. Filter flushed or, if it must be, swapped; clean diesel in; and then a test of the car. Next we start it and make sure it runs correctly before we leave.
If your motor has not run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are safe on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house after dark. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it is worth checking yours whilst we are on the way.
About Wereton, for a moment
Wereton is a suburban area situated on the riverside in Staffordshire, with a mix of semi-detached housing and a population of around 2328 residents. Wereton lies approximately 5.8 miles from Stoke-on-Trent and is near other local places such as Audley, Miles Green, and Boon Hill. Wereton's elevation is around 142 metres above sea level, and it is about 140.8 miles northwest of London.
AdBlue drains around Wereton and across Staffordshire
Being a residential suburb, Wereton shares its vans surrounding areas — Miles Green, Boon Hill — all the way across ST postcodes and the wider area around them. The van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting ST7 8.
No need to shift the car. Draining happens right there, whether a drive, a street by Audley Library, or a lay-by on the way to Leddy's Field. Ring and ask instead of guessing if you're close to a border, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of Audley St. James the Great.
Wereton motorists: the short version
Before you tip, read the cap. Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, anywhere around Staffordshire, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank anyway — so leave the vehicle off then phone 0333 366 0103.