Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in West Chiltington Common: Why It Happens
Leave your motor and ignition off then call 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait if AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Normally, if your motor hasn't turned, it is emptied and thoroughly rinsed where your vehicle sits in West Chiltington Common. The rest of this page covers why it takes place and how to ensure it does not — handy if you're reading ahead of time.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle, and its separate tank
Many newer diesels on the roads round West Chiltington Common and Smock Alley carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your motor. AdBlue's own tank holds it, and from there it goes to the exhaust, where a spray treats the fumes.
Different tanks, different fillers. On a lot of motors the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in the boot or under the bonnet. Diesel gets filled on every forecourt call-out, again and again. Rarely filled, AdBlue usually goes in from a bottle, poured by a driver who has to stop and think what filler it needs. Mistakes happen in that gap between the two.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs around West Chiltington Common
It's seldom carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and if it runs out completely, the car drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a drive off Haglands Lane before work, or in the car park outside The Five Bells on the way home.
Unfamiliar cars are next, as well. Rentals, new vehicles and company motors place their fillers differently, and habit reaches for the cap it used on the old one.
Third, the spout fits: a diesel filler or AdBlue one, it slides in just as easily, and once the tip starts, nothing halts it. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of West Chiltington Common or out in Nutbourne Common.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
Be it a West Chiltington Common forecourt or a driveway out in Abingworth, spend a couple of seconds on these before any goes in.
- Colour and lettering: an AdBlue cap is often blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually doesn't. Trust the cap, not where it sits.
- On many cars, the size tells: AdBlue has the smaller filler neck.
- Check inside your fuel flap: many motors have a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If your filler isn't by the diesel cap, it's in your boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Picking up a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park outside Pulborough? Check with whoever drove the car last before leaving, not once the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever across West Sussex that is.
- Not in a rush on the side of The Common, not on a slope, not with the engine running: park and switch off first.
- Daft as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" aloud while you unscrew the cap works — once you've found 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 the vehicle on.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Only after that, start your car: close the cap, check a second time, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
Find at the second or third stage that AdBlue went in the diesel filler? That is where you stop. Do not go on to stage five.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank around West Chiltington Common?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start the engine. Don't switch the ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of that 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 is the Esso or the Power, ask the staff to help roll the car away from the petrol pump. Your own driveway around West Chiltington Common is where it should stay.
When your motor has run by now, pull over somewhere safe then switch the vehicle off. Come off the M23 — under 15 miles out of West Chiltington Common — at the first exit. A short hop across West Chiltington Common is a smaller job than a run towards Chichester, under 25 miles away, so tell us roughly how far it went.
What occurs when we turn up around West Chiltington Common
We come to the car wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside West Chiltington Community Primary School, near West Chiltington Village Hall or on your own driveway. Both the work and the quote depend on three answers — what liquid, what amount, and whether it has run — so we ask. The price comes on the call, before any van leaves.
Next: a drain, then a full flush of the whole system. With AdBlue that matters more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't wash out on its own. The fuel filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the car is tested. Before we go, our technicians start the car and confirm that it's running properly.
Most jobs are done in roughly half an hour once our engineers arrive, provided the engine has not run — and the pumps we use are safe on a busy forecourt and quiet after dark outside a house. Payment happens on the day, not upfront, and you are given the documents an insurer wants: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it's worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About West Chiltington Common
West Chiltington Common is a village in West Sussex, situated inland at an elevation of 41 metres, and is located near the villages of Nutbourne Common and West Chiltington. West Chiltington Common has a population of around 1074 residents, who mostly live in detached houses. West Chiltington Common is positioned approximately 15.9 miles from Chichester and 41.3 miles from London, making it a rural community with some commuter links. West Chiltington Common remains a small village with a strong sense of community, surrounded by the South East's countryside.
AdBlue drains round West Chiltington Common, and West Sussex beyond
West Chiltington Common is a rural village, and the teams that cover it also work the towns around it, West Chiltington and Nutbourne among them, across the RH postcode area. Quote a postcode that starts RH20 2, and the van gets there quickest.
No need to shift the vehicle. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street near Church Hall, a lay-by on the way to Monkmeed Woods, a driveway. Awkward to explain, like the back of St Mary's Church? By a county line? Asking beats guessing, so ring.
The short version for West Chiltington Common people
Always, the cap; then, the tip. Still AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will drain it where it stands, anywhere in West Sussex: switch the vehicle off then phone 0333 366 0103.