Weston Village: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? Then set this page down for now, leave the ignition and motor off, and ring 0333 366 0103. Caught before your motor runs, it is normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is around Weston Village. Nothing happened yet? Below, the page explains the why it occurs and the ways to avoid it for good.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
Many newer diesels on the roads about Weston Village and West Wick carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the engine. Your exhaust, not your engine, is where AdBlue ends up: dosed into the gas to fresh them, from its own tank.
There's a filler for each tank. On a lot of vehicles the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in the boot or under the bonnet. Diesel goes in on every filling station call-out, week in, week out. Someone who has to stop and work out where it goes normally tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less commonly. That gap is where the slip lives.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank occur in Weston Village?
Rarely is it carelessness: normally three things line up.
On a driveway off Wesley Walk before work, or in the car park outside The Borough Arms heading home: that is where the rushed top-up takes place. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue runs low your car warns you, and once it is empty, limp mode follows.
The old car's filler is where your hand goes — yet a hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers somewhere else. That's a second thing: a new car.
Nothing halts the pour after it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Whether it occurs in Milton or the middle of Weston Village, it is the same few seconds.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
A few seconds is all the checks take — so run through them before you pour anything, on a driveway in Locking or a forecourt in Weston Village.
- Read the cap rather than going by where it sits: AdBlue ones are frequently blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps usually aren't.
- The size. On many cars the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- A label inside your fuel flap frequently shows which fuel goes where, on many vehicles. Check for it.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that is where the filler sits if it's not by your diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- Collecting a hire or company car, say at the car park outside Weston Milton? Check with the person who drove the vehicle last before leaving, rather than when the light comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
When the light goes on, wherever around Somerset, follow this routine.
- Not in a rush on the side of Worle Moor Road, not on a slope, not with the engine running: park then switch off first.
- Silly as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" aloud while you unscrew the cap does the trick — once you have found your filler and read the cap.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Gently does it, through the bottle's own spout, until it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check a second time. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the car.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Don't carry on to stage five.
Weston Village: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Brief order, then. First: the motor remains off. Keep your ignition off as well, because on many diesels switching it on alone runs your fuel pump. Topping up with diesel will not dilute it: rather than mixing, AdBlue sinks to the bottom of that tank, right where the fuel is drawn from.
If you are on a forecourt, whether it is the Shell or the Esso, ask the staff to help push the car clear of the pump. At home in Weston Village? So the car remains put.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if your engine has already run. Come off the M5 — under 3 miles out of Weston Village — at the first exit. Roughly how far did it go? Hopping across Weston Village is less work than a run of under 15 miles to Cardiff, so say.
Weston Village: what takes place when our technicians turn up
Outside Mead Vale Community Primary School, near Seventh-Day Aventist Church or on your own driveway: wherever your car has stopped, our technicians come to it. We ask what got in, about how much, and whether it has run, since the replies determine the work and our price. You hear that price by phone, before anybody sets off.
Draining the tank comes next, followed by a thorough flush of the system. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't wash out on its own — which is why that counts more with AdBlue than with petrol. Testing comes at the end: before that, fresh diesel goes in, and the filter is flushed or replaced if necessary. Next our technicians fire it up and make sure it runs correctly before leaving.
Most jobs are done in about half an hour once we get there, provided your engine hasn't run — and the pumps we use are fine on a live forecourt and quiet at night outside a house. Your insurer will ask for an engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and you get both once this job is done. Payment comes on the day, with no deposit. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it is worth checking yours whilst we're on the way.
About Weston Village itself
Weston Village is a suburban area located on the coast of Somerset, with a low elevation of around 5 metres above sea level. Weston Village sits near the mouth of the River Severn, close to the nearby settlements of Milton and Worle. Weston Village is characterized by its predominant semi-detached housing stock, reflecting the area's development as a residential community. Weston Village is situated near Locking Castle, a historic site in the region.
AdBlue drains around Weston Village and across Somerset
As a residential suburb, Weston Village has the same vans as nearby areas — Locking Castle, Worle — right across BS postcodes and the wider area around them. Our van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting BS24 7.
Your car doesn't need to move. We drain it where it is — a side street near @worle, a lay-by on the way to Worle Moor Road Park Area, a drive. Ring and ask instead of guessing if you're near a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of St Peter & St Jude.
The short version for Weston Village people
First, the cap; after that, the tip. Even so AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can empty it wherever it is, anywhere across Somerset: switch it off and phone 0333 366 0103.