Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Whitfield: Why It Occurs
Leave the motor and ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103 first — reading can wait when AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Caught before your engine runs, it's usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is in Whitfield. Not happened yet? Below, the page covers the reasons it takes place and the ways to avoid it for good.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel motor
Many current diesels on the roads about Whitfield and Crossways carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your engine. Its own tank keeps it, and from there it goes to the exhaust, where spraying treats the gas.
Different tanks, separate fillers. Many of motors share a single flap for the two, while others move the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. Filling the diesel side at the pump happens constantly. The AdBlue side is topped up far less often, usually from a bottle, and usually by someone who has to stop and think where it goes. The slip lives in that gap.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank occurs around Whitfield
Rarely is it carelessness: normally three things line up.
Haste follows from the warning. Your car warns you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank puts the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up happens quickly, before work on a drive off Gloucester Road, or heading home in the car park outside The White Horse Inn.
The old car's filler is where the hand goes — yet a hire car, a new motor or a company car keeps the fillers somewhere else. That's the second thing: an unfamiliar car.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, and so nothing stops the tip once it has started. Buckover or the middle of Whitfield: it is the same few seconds either way.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
A couple of seconds is all these take — so check them before you pour anything, on a driveway in Sundayshill or a forecourt in Whitfield.
- Check the cap rather than going by position: AdBlue caps are regularly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones usually are not.
- The size. On many cars the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Plenty of motors say there which fuel goes where.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that's where the filler is if it's not by your diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- The person who drove the vehicle last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park outside Yate, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
Wherever around Gloucestershire the light comes on, this is a routine for the day.
- Not in a rush on the side of Iron Hogg Lane, not on a slope, not with your motor running: park then switch off properly.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it works.
- Both behind one flap? Then make sure the cap on the diesel side is still closed before lifting the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Before starting the car, shut the cap and check a second time that your diesel cap was never opened off.
Find during the second or third stage that the bottle went into the diesel filler? That's where you stop. Leave out step five entirely.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Whitfield?
The short order of things, starting with not starting the engine. Do not switch the ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Filling up with diesel will not thin it: instead, AdBlue drops to the base of the tank, right where the fuel is taken from.
If you're at a forecourt, whether it's the Thornbury Motors or the Stone Garage, ask the staff to help push the vehicle clear of the petrol pump. On your own drive in Whitfield? So the car stays put.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if your engine has already run. On the M5, under a mile from Whitfield, that means the next junction. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Bristol, under 15 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Whitfield.
Our arrival in Whitfield, and what occurs next
By St Andrew's Church of England Primary School, Cromhall, near Bloody Acre Hill Fort or on your own driveway: wherever the car has stopped, our technicians come to it. Our engineers ask what was put in, about how much, and whether it's run, because the replies decide the work and the quote. That quote is given over the phone, before any van leaves.
The system is then flushed thoroughly, once your tank is cleared. Much more than with petrol, it counts with AdBlue: the crystals build up, certain metals corrode, and nothing washes away on its own, no matter how long it sits. Testing comes last: before that, fresh diesel goes in, and your filter is cleaned or changed as needed. Before we leave, our engineers start the engine and check that it's running smoothly.
Unstarted vehicles mostly mean a half-hour visit from the moment we arrive. The equipment is fine on a busy filling station, and hushed enough for a driveway late at night. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Wrong-fuel cover is included in many insurance policies — so make use of the wait to look at yours.
About Whitfield
Whitfield is a small hamlet in Gloucestershire, situated inland at an elevation of 54 metres, with detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation. Whitfield lies near the cities of Bristol and Gloucester, and is close to nearby places such as Buckover and Milbury Heath. Whitfield is located in the South West region of England, approximately 101 miles from London. Whitfield has a population of around 570 residents.
Whitfield and Gloucestershire: AdBlue drains across the area
Milbury Heath and Abbotside are among the places near Whitfield, a rural hamlet, that the same vans cover, over GL postcodes. The van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting GL12 8.
Your car stays put. Draining happens right there, whether a drive, a road near Fort Hill Camp, or a lay-by towards Stump's Wood. If you're close to a border, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Priestwood Roman Villa, ring and ask rather than assuming.
Whitfield motorists: the short version
Read the cap before you pour. Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, anywhere in Gloucestershire, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank anyway — and so leave the car off then call 0333 366 0103.