Why It Happens and How to Prevent It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Wombridge
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case put this page aside a moment, leave your ignition and motor off, and call 0333 366 0103. Around Wombridge, catching it before the motor turns usually leaves a drain and a thorough flush where it stands. Nothing happened yet? Below, the page covers the why it takes place and the how to prevent it for good.
AdBlue in a diesel car, and its separate tank
Plenty of newer diesels around Wrockwardine Wood, like those in Wombridge, carry on two fluids; your motor gets only the diesel. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Separate tanks, different 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 fuelled at the petrol pump all the time. A driver who has to stop and work out where it goes normally fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less regularly. The slip lives in that gap.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank take place around Wombridge?
Carelessness seldom causes it. What does is three things coming up at once.
Haste comes from the warning. The car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank sends the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up gets done in a rush, before work on a drive off Wombridge Hill, or heading home in the car park at The Compasses Inn.
New-to-you motors are next, too. Hire cars, new cars and company cars place their fillers in new places, and habit goes for the cap it used on the old one.
Lastly, the spout fits: diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it slides in as readily, and once the pour starts, no part stops it. It's a few seconds, be it out in Trench Lock or bang in the heart of Wombridge.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Before you tip anything, whether on a drive in Trench or a forecourt in Wombridge, check these. They take a few seconds.
- Position misleads; the cap doesn't. AdBlue caps tend to be blue or bear the name "AdBlue" — diesel caps usually do not.
- Many cars give AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- Look inside your fuel flap: many motors carry a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If your filler isn't by the diesel cap, it is in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- The previous driver will know. Check as you collect a rental or company car — from Oakengates's car park, perhaps — rather than once the warning comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
The day the light goes on, wherever around Shropshire, use this routine.
- Not in a rush on the side of Wombridge Way, not on a slope, not with the motor running: park then switch off first.
- Daft as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap works — once you have found your filler and read it.
- Both under a single flap? So confirm the lid on your diesel filler is still shut before raising the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap, and check once more — making sure your diesel filler stayed closed the whole time. After that, start the vehicle.
Spot at step two or three that it's already gone into your diesel side? So stop just there. Leave out step five entirely.
Wombridge: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start your engine. Leave the ignition off as well, because on many diesels it by itself runs the pump. Do not top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where your fuel is drawn from.
Ask the staff to help roll the vehicle away from the pump if you're at a forecourt — the Esso, the Tesco or somewhere else. If you are on your own driveway in Wombridge, leave the vehicle where it sits.
Already started? Pull over once it is sensible, then switch off. Come off the M54 — under a mile out of Wombridge — at the first junction. Roughly how far did it go? Hopping across Wombridge is smaller a job than a run of under 25 miles to Wolverhampton, so say.
When we turn up in Wombridge, what happens?
Wherever the vehicle came to rest, be it outside Wombridge Primary School, beside St Mary and St Leonard or at home, our van travels to it. Which liquid was put in, the quantity, and if it ran: we ask because the answers set both work and price. Nobody sets off until you've had our quote by phone.
The system is then rinsed thoroughly, after the tank is drained. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't wash out on its own — which is why the flush matters more here than with petrol. Testing is last: before that, fresh diesel is added, and the filter is flushed or replaced if necessary. The motor is fired up next and tested to make sure it runs smoothly, all before our engineers go.
Using pumps safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs in which the motor hasn't run need about half an hour once our technicians are there. The insurer usually wants the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and you get both at the end. Payment is on the day, with no deposit. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours whilst we're on the way.
About Wombridge and where it is
Wombridge is a suburban area in Shropshire, situated inland at an elevation of around 110 metres, with semi-detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation. Wombridge lies approximately 16 miles from Wolverhampton and is close to nearby places such as Trench Lock and Oakengates. Wombridge has a population of around 3140 residents and is located near the Red Lake. Wombridge is about 128.8 miles from London, making it a relatively distant suburb from the capital city.
AdBlue drains around Wombridge and across Shropshire
Wombridge is a residential suburb, and our teams that cover it also work the places near it, Oakengates and Red Lake among them, across the TF postcode area. Our van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting TF2 6.
Moving the car is not necessary. Anywhere it stands — near Gurdwara Guru Nanak Darbar, in a lay-by heading to Wombridge Park, at home — that's where it gets cleared. If you're close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of New Life Baptist Church, ring and ask instead of guessing.
Wombridge drivers: the short version
First, the cap; then, the tip. Still AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will empty it wherever it is, wherever across Shropshire: keep the vehicle off then ring 0333 366 0103.