AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Withystakes: How It Occurs and How to Avoid It
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? Then set this page down for now, keep the ignition and motor off, then phone 0333 366 0103. Usually, when your motor hasn't run, it is emptied and thoroughly flushed where your car sits in Withystakes. Reading in advance? Then the rest explains why it happens and what to prevent it happening at all.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel motor need its own filler?
Plenty of newer diesels around Armshead, like those in Withystakes, carry on two liquids; your motor gets just the diesel. The exhaust, not your motor, is where AdBlue goes: dosed into the fumes to fresh it, from its own tank.
Separate tanks, separate fillers. 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. The diesel side is topped up at the pump all the time. The AdBlue side is filled far less regularly, usually from a bottle, and normally by someone who has to stop and think where it goes. Mistakes happen in the gap between the two.
AdBlue in the diesel tank around Withystakes: how it occurs
Seldom is it carelessness: normally three things line up.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and if it runs out completely, your vehicle goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a drive off Rownall Road before work, or in the car park outside The Red Cow PH on the way home.
Next, your hand goes for the cap it would have used on the old car — because a hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers somewhere your last one didn't.
Lastly, the bottle fits: diesel filler or AdBlue one, it slides in as readily, and once the tip starts, nothing stops it. Werrington or the middle of Withystakes: it takes the same few seconds in both.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Before you tip anything, whether on a drive in Washerwall or a forecourt around Withystakes, check these. They take a few seconds.
- Where it sits misleads; the cap does not. AdBlue caps are often blue or carry the word "AdBlue" — diesel caps usually do not.
- The size. On many vehicles the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Lift the filler flap and check for a label — many motors show which goes in each filler right there.
- Can't see it beside the diesel filler? Then look below the bonnet or inside your boot — the handbook will say where.
- The person who drove the car last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park outside Longton, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever across Staffordshire that is.
- Park and switch off. Not on a slope, not with the motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Moorside Road.
- Silly as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap does the trick — once you have found your filler and read it.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave the vehicle on.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's 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 car.
Discover at the second or third stage that the bottle went into the diesel filler? That is where you stop. Leave out step five entirely.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Withystakes?
Don't start your motor: that is how the short order of things begins. On plenty of diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so do not switch the car on. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where your fuel is drawn from — so do not top up with diesel to thin it.
The staff at Wainwrights Coal Merchants Ltd., another forecourt nearby or any forecourt will normally lend a hand to push the car away when you ask. If you are on your own driveway around Withystakes, leave the vehicle where it is.
Already run? Stop once it's sensible, then turn off. Withystakes sits under 10 miles from the M6; there, use the next junction. A short hop across Withystakes is a smaller job than a run towards Stoke-on-Trent, under 5 miles away, and so tell us roughly how far it went.
What takes place when our technicians get there in Withystakes
Our van reaches the car wherever it has come to rest — your own driveway, beside St Philip, or outside Werrington Primary School. Which fluid went in, the amount, and if it ran: our engineers ask because those replies decide the work and quote. No one heads out until you have had the price by phone.
Then your tank is emptied and the system purged thoroughly. Not like petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and eats at certain fuel-system metals, and neither washes away unaided. Hence it matters more. The filter flushed or, where it must be, replaced; clean diesel in; and then a check of the vehicle. We don't go until it has been started and is running smoothly.
Most jobs are finished in about half an hour once our engineers get there, as long as the motor has not run — and the pumps our engineers use are safe on a live forecourt and quiet after dark beside a house. Nothing upfront; you settle up on the day. Afterwards, a VAT invoice and the report from the engineer are handed to you for your insurer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours whilst we are on the way.
About Withystakes itself
Withystakes is a suburban area situated on the outskirts of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, with a riverside setting that offers scenic views. Withystakes has a mix of semi-detached housing and is located near other local places such as Werrington and Cellarhead. Withystakes sits at an elevation of 253 metres, making it one of the higher points in the surrounding area. Withystakes is approximately 4 miles from Stoke-on-Trent city centre, providing easy access to local amenities.
AdBlue drains across Staffordshire, Withystakes included
Being a residential suburb, Withystakes has the same vans as nearby areas — Southlow, Cellarhead — right across ST postcodes and the wider area beyond. A postcode starting ST9 0 gets our van to you fastest.
The car stays put. Wherever it sits — beside Werrington Library, on a layby en route to White Bar, at home — that's where it gets drained. Assuming doesn't help at the back of Werrington Village Hall, on a boundary, or anywhere hard to pin down; ring and ask.
Withystakes people: the short version
Always, the cap; after that, the tip. Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, anywhere across Staffordshire, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless — and so leave it off and ring 0333 366 0103.