Wick Episcopi: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
Leave your engine and ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait when AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. A drain plus a full flush, carried out just where the car stands around Wick Episcopi, is normally what it takes when caught before your motor runs. Here before the event? Then what follows explains how it happens and how to stop it ever happening.
AdBlue in a diesel car, and its separate tank
Plenty of newer diesels on the roads around Wick Episcopi and Rushwick carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the motor. The exhaust, not the engine, is where AdBlue goes: dosed into the gas to fresh them, from a separate tank.
There's a filler for every tank. Some vehicles keep the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; plenty more place the two together under one flap. At the petrol pump, the diesel side is topped up all the time. Much less regularly, the AdBlue side is filled — mostly from a bottle, by a person working out where it goes. That gap is where the error lives.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank happen around Wick Episcopi?
It's hardly ever carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
Hurry follows from the warning. The car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank puts the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up happens in a rush, before work on a drive off Swinton Lane, or heading home in the car park outside The Portobello.
The old car's filler is where your hand reaches — but a rental car, a new car or a company car keeps the fillers somewhere else. That is the second thing: an unfamiliar motor.
Lastly, the spout goes in: a diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it slides in as readily, and after the tip begins, nothing halts it. Whether it happens in Lower Wick or the middle of Wick Episcopi, it's the same few seconds.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Be it a Wick Episcopi forecourt or a drive out in Diglis, spend a few seconds on these before any goes in.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap normally isn't. Read it instead of going by position.
- Check the size: the smaller filler neck is, on many vehicles, the AdBlue one.
- A label inside your fuel flap frequently shows which fuel goes where, on many motors. Check for it.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that's where the filler sits if it is not by the diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- Picking up a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park at Worcester Foregate Street? Check with whoever drove the car last before leaving, rather than once the light goes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
Anywhere around Worcestershire the light comes on, this is a routine for that day.
- Stop somewhere level, motor off, with time in hand — not rushing on the side of Hill View Road.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after finding the AdBlue filler and reading it. Daft, perhaps, yet it does the trick.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave the vehicle on.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Only after that, start the car: close the cap, check again, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
Discover during the second or third stage that the bottle went into the diesel tank? That's where you stop. Don't go on to stage five.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Wick Episcopi?
What follows is a short order of things, beginning with not starting the motor. Don't switch your ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Filling up with diesel will not thin it: rather than mixing, AdBlue drops to the base of that tank, just where fuel is taken from.
At a forecourt — Texaco, JET or any other — the staff will normally help roll the car clear, when you ask. On your own drive around Wick Episcopi? Then the car stays put.
If your engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. Wick Episcopi lies under 3 miles from the M5; on it, take the first junction. Roughly how far did it go? Hopping across Wick Episcopi is less a job than a run of under 3 miles towards Worcester, and so say.
Our arrival around Wick Episcopi, and what takes place next
Outside Pitmaston Primary School, near Boughton Park Lawn Tennis Club or on your own drive: wherever the vehicle has stopped, our technicians come to it. Our engineers ask what got in, about how much, and if it's run, because the replies settle the work and the quote. On the call itself, you hear our quote — ahead of anything else.
Emptying that tank comes next, then a full flush of the fuel system. More than with petrol, it counts with AdBlue: the crystals form, some metals corrode, and none of it clears away on its own, however long it sits. A test is at the end: before that, fresh diesel is added, and your filter is cleaned or changed as needed. Before we go, our engineers start the car and check that it is running correctly.
Unstarted cars mostly mean a half-hour job from the moment we arrive. The equipment is fine on a live filling station, and hushed enough for a residential street late at night. Payment is on the day, not upfront, and you are given the paperwork your insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. It is worth checking your insurance while we travel to you: misfuelling cover comes with plenty of policies.
About Wick Episcopi itself
Wick Episcopi is a locality situated on the banks of the River Severn in Worcestershire, with Worcester city centre just 1.3 miles away. Wick Episcopi has a mix of housing types, but detached homes are particularly prevalent in the area. Wick Episcopi benefits from its proximity to the city, while also having easy access to the surrounding countryside. Wick Episcopi is relatively low-lying, with an elevation of around 29 metres above sea level.
Wick Episcopi and Worcestershire: AdBlue drains across the area
Throughout WR postcodes, our vans covering Wick Episcopi — a neighbourhood — work the nearby locations too, St Johns and Upper Wick included. The van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting WR2 4.
No need to move the vehicle. The drain happens right there, be it a driveway, a street by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or a layby on the way to Boughton Park (Worcester Golf and Country Club). Ring and ask instead of guessing if you are close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain, like the back of Bromwich Road Mission.
The short version for Wick Episcopi drivers
Before you pour, read the cap. Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, anywhere across Worcestershire, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank anyway — and so leave it off and phone 0333 366 0103.