Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Weston under Penyard: Why It Occurs
Leave the motor and ignition off and call 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait if AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Usually, when the motor has not run, it's emptied and thoroughly cleaned where your vehicle is in Weston under Penyard. The rest of this page explains why it happens and how to ensure it doesn't — handy if you are reading ahead of time.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle, and its separate tank
Diesel feeds your engine — but plenty of newer diesels driven around Weston under Penyard and Pontshill Marsh hold another fluid as well. AdBlue's own tank keeps it, and from there it is sent to your exhaust, where spraying cleans the gas.
Each tank has its own filler. Some motors put the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; a lot more have both side by side behind one flap. Diesel goes in on every forecourt visit, again and again. Someone who has to stop and think where it goes normally tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less frequently. It's in that gap that the slip lives.
AdBlue in the diesel tank in Weston under Penyard: how it takes place
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
Haste follows from the warning. The vehicle tells you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank puts it into limp mode — so the top-up happens quickly, before work on a drive off A40, or on the way home in the car park at Weston Cross Inn.
Next, your hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old car — since a hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, so nothing stops the tip after it has started. It takes seconds, whether out in Ryeford or right in the centre of Weston under Penyard.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
A few seconds is all these take — so check them before you pour anything, on a driveway in Bromsash or a forecourt in Weston under Penyard.
- Position misleads; the cap doesn't. AdBlue ones are often blue or carry the name "AdBlue" — diesel caps normally do not.
- The size. On many vehicles the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Check inside the fuel flap: many motors carry a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- The handbook shows which it is if the filler is not next to your diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- Check with the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — if you collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park at Ledbury.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
On the day the warning comes on — anywhere it is around Herefordshire — a routine to use.
- Pull in somewhere level, motor off, with time to spare — not hurried on the side of Weston Park.
- Daft as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew the cap does the trick — after you have located the filler and read it.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave the vehicle on.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap, then look again — confirm the diesel cap remained closed the whole time. After that, start the car.
Find at the second or third step that the bottle went in the wrong tank? That's where you stop. Don't go on to stage five.
Weston under Penyard: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
What follows is a short order of things, starting with no starting your engine. On many diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so don't switch the car on. Diluting it with extra diesel fails, because AdBlue settles to the bottom rather than mixing — and that is where the fuel is pulled from.
If you're on a forecourt, whether it's the Morrisons or the Esso, ask the attendants to help roll your car clear of the petrol pump. Your own drive around Weston under Penyard is the place it stays.
If your engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. Leave the M50 — under 3 miles out of Weston under Penyard — at the first exit. A short hop across Weston under Penyard is a smaller job than a run towards Gloucester, under 15 miles away, so tell us about how far it went.
What takes place when our engineers get there in Weston under Penyard
Wherever your car has stopped, whether by Weston-under-Penyard CofE Primary School, near Saint Lawrence or on your own drive, the van travels to it. Our technicians ask what went in, roughly how much, and if it has run, because the answers decide this work and our price. During the phone call itself, you hear our price — ahead of dispatch.
Next: a drain, then a full flush of the entire system. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't wash out on its own — which is why that counts more here than with petrol. Testing is at the end: before that, clean diesel goes in, and your filter is cleaned or changed as needed. Your engine is started next and checked to be sure it runs smoothly, all before our technicians leave.
Unrun vehicles usually need a half-hour job after arrival. The equipment is safe on a busy filling station, and quiet enough for a driveway after dark. The insurer usually wants the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and both are yours once the job is done. Payment comes on the day, with no money upfront. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it is worth checking yours whilst we are on the way.
About Weston under Penyard itself
Weston under Penyard is a village in Herefordshire, situated in the west of the county near the Gloucestershire border. Weston under Penyard sits at an elevation of 78 metres, surrounded by rolling countryside and nearby villages such as Ryeford and Kingstone. Weston under Penyard has a population of around 714 people, predominantly living in detached houses.
AdBlue drains across Herefordshire, Weston under Penyard included
As a rural village, Weston under Penyard shares its vans surrounding places — Kingstone, Pontshill — right through HR postcodes and the surrounding area beyond. A postcode starting HR9 7 gets our van to you fastest.
No need to move your car. Wherever it sits — near Weston Under Penyard Village Hall, in a lay-by heading to Penyard Park, at home — that is where it gets emptied. Awkward to pin down, like the back of James Wallace Richard Hall Memorial? Close to a county line? Checking is better than assuming, so phone.
Weston under Penyard drivers: the short version
Before you pour, read the cap. AdBlue in the diesel tank after all? Keep the car off then ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, across Herefordshire.