AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Wick St Lawrence: Why It Occurs and How to Avoid It
Keep the motor and ignition off then call 0333 366 0103 first — reading can wait when AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Usually, when your motor has not turned, it is drained and fully cleaned where the vehicle sits around Wick St Lawrence. Here in advance? In that case the rest covers why it comes about and what to prevent it ever happening.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel car need its own filler?
Many newer diesels on the roads round Wick St Lawrence and St Georges carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the motor. Your exhaust, not your motor, is where AdBlue goes: dosed into the fumes to clean them, from its own tank.
Different tanks, separate fillers. Other vehicles put the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; a lot of others have the two side by side under one flap. At the pump, your diesel side gets filled constantly. The AdBlue side is topped up far less regularly, usually from a bottle, and normally by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. It's in that gap that the mistake lives.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank occur in Wick St Lawrence?
Carelessness rarely explains it. Instead is three things coming up together.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and if it runs out altogether, the vehicle drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Azalea Road before work, or in the car park outside The Ebdon Arms on the way home.
Unfamiliar cars come second, as well. Hire cars, new motors and company cars put their fillers differently, and the hand reaches for the cap used on the old one.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, so nothing stops the pour once it has started. It's a few seconds, whether in Ebdon or bang in the heart of Wick St Lawrence.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
A few seconds is all these take — so check them before you tip anything, on a drive in Norton or a forecourt in Wick St Lawrence.
- Check the cap rather than going by where it sits: AdBlue ones are commonly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps usually aren't.
- The size. On plenty of motors the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Check inside the fuel flap: plenty of vehicles have a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- The handbook shows where it is if the filler is not next to your diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- Picking up a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park at Worle? Ask the person who drove the vehicle last before you set off, rather than once the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
For the day the light appears — anywhere you are in Somerset — a routine to follow.
- Pull in on level, engine off, with time in hand — not hurried on the side of Lilac Way.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it does the trick.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave it on.
- Finish once your tank is topped up or the bottle is empty; until then, tip gently through the own spout.
- Before starting the vehicle, shut the cap and check a second time that your diesel cap never opened off.
Discover at the second or third step that the bottle went into the diesel tank? That is where you stop. Skip step five altogether.
Wick St Lawrence: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Brief order, then. Top of that: the engine stays off. On many diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so don't switch the vehicle on. Do not top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where the fuel is sucked from.
Ask the staff to help push the vehicle clear of the pump if you are at a forecourt — the Sainsbury's, the Esso or anywhere else. At home around Wick St Lawrence? Then the car stays where it is.
Already run? Pull over once it's sensible, then switch off. On the M5, under 3 miles from Wick St Lawrence, that means the next junction. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Cardiff, under 15 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Wick St Lawrence.
When we arrive in Wick St Lawrence, what takes place?
Our van reaches your car wherever it has come to rest — your own drive, near Worle Baptist Church, or by Castle Batch Primary School Academy. Which liquid got in, the quantity, and if it ran: our engineers ask because those answers set the work and quote. On the phone call itself, you hear our quote — before dispatch.
Your system is then cleaned thoroughly, after your tank is emptied. Not like petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and eats at some fuel-system metals, and none of that clears out unaided. That is why it matters more. After the fuel filter is flushed — or replaced, where required — fresh diesel is added, and then your vehicle gets tested. We do not go until it has been fired up and is running smoothly.
Unrun vehicles usually need a half-hour visit from the moment we arrive. The kit is safe on a live filling station, and hushed enough for a driveway late at night. The insurer usually wants an engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and you get both at the end. Payment is on the day, with no money upfront. Before we get there, have a look at your insurance documents; many include cover for misfuelling.
About Wick St Lawrence, for a moment
Wick St Lawrence is a suburban area in Somerset, situated on the coast near the mouth of the River Yeo, with Ebdon and Worle to the east and Icelton to the west. Wick St Lawrence has a relatively low elevation of around 7 metres above sea level, and its coastal setting influences the local environment. Wick St Lawrence is characterised by predominantly detached housing, reflecting the area's residential nature.
AdBlue drains about Wick St Lawrence, and Somerset beyond
Worle and Icelton are among the places around Wick St Lawrence, a residential suburb, that the same vans cover, over BS postcodes. A postcode starting BS22 9 gets our van to you fastest.
Moving the vehicle isn't needed. Anywhere it sits — beside Castle Batch Community Centre, in a lay-by heading to Castle Batch, on a drive — that's where it is emptied. Assuming won't help behind St Mark's Church, on a boundary, or somewhere hard to pin down; ring and ask.
In short, for Wick St Lawrence drivers
First, the cap; then, the tip. Even so AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can empty it wherever it is, anywhere across Somerset: keep the car off then ring 0333 366 0103.