AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Westville: How It Occurs and How to Prevent It
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your engine and the ignition off and call 0333 366 0103. Caught before the motor runs, it is generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is around Westville. The rest of this page explains why it occurs and how to make sure it doesn't — handy if you are reading before it has happened.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle: two tanks, two fillers
Diesel feeds your motor — yet plenty of current diesels seen round Westville and Broomhill carry another liquid too. AdBlue's own tank keeps it, and from there it is sent to the exhaust, where spraying cleans the gas.
Each tank has its own filler. Under one flap, next to each other: that's the layout on a lot of motors. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler sits under the bonnet or in your boot instead. At the petrol pump, your diesel side is topped up all the time. A driver who has to stop and work out where it goes normally fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less frequently. The slip lives in that gap.
Westville: how AdBlue in your diesel tank happens
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
On a driveway off Avon Avenue before work, or in the car park outside Nabb Inn on the way home: that is where the hurried top-up happens. Why the rush? As AdBlue gets low the car warns you, and once it is empty, limp mode follows.
Then your car is strange. A hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and the hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old one.
Third, the spout goes in: diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it slides in as readily, and once the tip begins, nothing stops it. Ruffs or the heart of Westville: it takes the same few seconds in both.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Check these before pouring, on a forecourt around Westville or a driveway over in Butlers Hill. A few seconds, no more.
- Blue and marking: an AdBlue cap is often blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally does not. Go by the cap, not where it sits.
- The size. On plenty of vehicles the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Lift the filler flap and check for a label — many motors show which belongs in each filler just there.
- The handbook. If your filler is not by the diesel cap, it's in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Whoever had it before knows. Check as you pick up a hire car or company car — from Hucknall's car park, say — rather than when the warning appears.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever across Nottinghamshire that is.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with your engine running, and not in a rush on the side of Nene Close.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once finding the AdBlue filler and read it. Daft, perhaps, yet it works.
- Both under one flap? So confirm the cap on your diesel side stays closed ahead of lifting the bottle.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check once more. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you have already poured into your diesel side. Do not go on to stage five.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Westville already?
Do not start your engine: that is how the short order of things starts. The fuel pump starts on plenty of diesels the moment your ignition is switched on — so leave it off. Topping up with diesel will not thin it: rather than mixing, AdBlue sinks to the base of the tank, right where fuel is taken from.
Ask the attendants to help roll the car away from the pump if you're at a forecourt — the Texaco, the Esso or anywhere else. Leave it where it is if you are on your own drive in Westville.
Already started? Pull over when it is safe, then switch off. On the M1, under a mile from Westville, that means the next exit. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Nottingham, under 10 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Westville.
What occurs when our engineers turn up around Westville
By Hucknall Flying High Academy, near WW2 Bunkers or on your own drive: wherever your car has stopped, we come to it. The answers decide the work and our price, so our technicians ask what got in, roughly how much, and if it has run. That price is given on the call, before any van leaves.
Emptying your tank comes next, then a full flush of your system. Unlike petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and attacks some fuel-system metals, and neither clears out unaided. Hence it counts more. Once the filter has been cleaned — or replaced, if required — fresh diesel goes in, and finally your car is tested. The engine is fired up next and checked to be sure it runs properly, all before our technicians go.
Most jobs are finished in about half an hour once we get there, as long as your engine hasn't run — and the pumps our engineers use are safe on a live forecourt yet quiet after dark beside a house. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it is worth checking yours while we are on the way.
About Westville and where it is
Westville is a suburban area located on the riverside in Nottinghamshire, with a mix of semi-detached housing and a population of around 3670 residents. Westville sits at an elevation of 95 metres, approximately 5.5 miles from Nottingham city centre. Westville is situated near other local places such as Ruffs, Hazelgrove, and Beauvale, and is around 114.4 miles from London. Westville's riverside setting provides a distinctive character to the area.
AdBlue drains across Nottinghamshire, Westville included
Hazelgrove and Beauvale are among the towns around Westville, a residential suburb, that the same teams cover, over NG postcodes. Give a postcode beginning NG15 6, and the van gets there quickest.
No need to move your car. Wherever it stands — near Battle Headquarters Watchtower, on a lay-by heading to Starth Wood, on a drive — that's where it gets drained. If you are close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of RAF Hucknall Battle Headquarters, ring and ask rather than guessing.
Westville drivers: the short version
First, the cap; after that, the tip. Even so AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can empty it wherever it is, anywhere in Nottinghamshire: switch the vehicle off then phone 0333 366 0103.