Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Weston Ditch: Why It Occurs
Pause reading a minute when the diesel tank already holds AdBlue in it: ignition off, engine off, and phone 0333 366 0103. A drain and a full flush, done right where the vehicle sits around Weston Ditch, is normally what it takes if caught before the engine runs. Nothing happened yet? Further down, the page explains the why it occurs and the how to avoid it altogether.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
Plenty of modern diesels on the roads round Weston Ditch and Kenny Hill carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the motor. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into the exhaust stream to clean it.
Different tanks, different fillers. Under one flap, next to each other: that is the layout on many cars. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler sits beneath the bonnet or in the boot instead. At the petrol pump, your diesel side is topped up all the time. Much less regularly, the AdBlue side gets topped up — mostly from a bottle, by a person working out where it goes. Mistakes happen in that gap between the two.
Weston Ditch: how AdBlue in the diesel tank happens
Carelessness rarely causes it. What does is three things lining up together.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a message from the vehicle, and running out means limp mode — hence a rushed top-up, perhaps before work off The Grove, or outside the pub in the village on the way home that evening.
The old car's filler is where your hand goes — but a rental car, a new car or a company car keeps the fillers somewhere else. That's the second thing: a new vehicle.
No part stops the pour after it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Weston Ditch or out in Thistley Green.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Whether a Weston Ditch forecourt or a drive out in Wilde Street, spend a few seconds over these before any goes in.
- Blue and lettering: an AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually does not. Go by the cap, not its position.
- Plenty of vehicles fit AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- Look inside your fuel flap: plenty of cars have a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If the filler isn't by your diesel cap, it's in your boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- The previous driver knows. Check as you collect a rental or company car — from Shippea Hill's car park, perhaps — not when the warning appears.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around Suffolk that is.
- Park and switch off. Not on a slope, not with the motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Cow and Sheep Drove.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once you find the AdBlue filler and read it. Daft, perhaps, yet it works.
- Both behind a single flap? Then confirm the cap on the diesel filler is still closed ahead of raising the bottle.
- Slowly is best, through the bottle's own spout, until it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Before starting your car, close the cap and check a second time that the diesel cap was never opened off.
Find at step two or three that it's already gone into the diesel side? So stop just there. Stage five stays off limits.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Weston Ditch already?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start the motor. Don't switch the ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Don't top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where your fuel is drawn from.
On a forecourt — Express with Gas, Esso or any other — the attendants will normally help roll the vehicle clear, when you ask. On your own drive in Weston Ditch? Then the car remains where it is.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if your motor has already run. The next junction is the place to come off when you are on the M11, under 25 miles from Weston Ditch. About how far did it go? Crossing Weston Ditch is smaller a job than a run of under 10 miles towards Ely, and so tell us.
Our arrival around Weston Ditch, and what happens next
Our technicians come to the car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside West Row Academy, near Base Exchange or on your own driveway. We ask what got in, about how much, and whether it's run, because those replies settle this work and the price. The quote is given on the call, before any van leaves.
Your system is then cleaned thoroughly, after your tank is emptied. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and attacks certain fuel-system metals, and none of that washes away unaided. That is why it counts more. After your filter is cleaned — or replaced, where needed — clean diesel is added, and finally your vehicle gets tested. The engine is fired up next and checked to confirm it runs correctly, all before our engineers go.
Unrun cars mostly mean a half-hour job from the moment we arrive. The kit is safe on a busy forecourt, and quiet enough for a driveway late at night. Payment happens on the day, not upfront, and you receive the documents an insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. It's worth looking at your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with plenty of policies.
About Weston Ditch itself
Weston Ditch is a small locality in Suffolk, situated in a low-lying area near the fenlands. Weston Ditch has a population of around 538 people and is characterized by detached housing. Weston Ditch is located near several other small places, including Thistley Green, Beck Row, and West Row, and is about 8.5 miles from the city of Ely.
AdBlue drains in Weston Ditch and across Suffolk
Weston Ditch is a small village, and our teams that cover it also work the places around it, Beck Row and West Row among them, across the IP postcode area. Our van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting IP28 8.
The vehicle stays put. Wherever it sits — beside 9/11 Memorial, in a lay-by en route to Heritage Park, at home — that's where it is drained. Tricky to pin down, like the back of Trailer? Close to a county line? Asking is better than guessing, and so phone.
The short version for Weston Ditch drivers
Before you pour, read the cap. Even so AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will drain it where it is, wherever across Suffolk: keep the vehicle off and ring 0333 366 0103.