How It Occurs and How to Avoid It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Wood Burcote
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? Then set this page down for now, keep your ignition and engine off, and call 0333 366 0103. In Wood Burcote, catching it before your motor runs usually leaves a drain and a full flush on the spot. Here in advance? Then the rest covers why it comes about and how to stop it happening at all.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel car
Not one liquid but two: that's how plenty of newer diesels near Wood Burcote and Whittlebury run, with diesel feeding the engine. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Each tank has one filler of its own. Under one flap, next to each other: that's the arrangement on a lot of motors. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler is under the bonnet or in your boot instead. The diesel side is topped up at the 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 far less frequently. Mistakes happen in the gap between the two.
Wood Burcote: how AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs
It is hardly ever carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
On a driveway off Bessie's Lane before work, or in the car park outside Towcester Sports & Social Club on the way home: that's where the hurried top-up takes place. Why the rush? As AdBlue runs low your car warns you, and if it is empty, limp mode kicks in.
The old car's cap is where the hand goes — yet a rental car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers somewhere else. That is a second thing: a strange motor.
No part halts the pour after it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Whether it happens in Heathencote or the middle of Wood Burcote, it's the same few seconds.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
Whether a Wood Burcote forecourt or a drive over in Paulerspury, spend a few seconds on these before anything is poured in.
- Colour and marking: an AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually doesn't. Trust the cap, not where it sits.
- Plenty of motors fit AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- Look inside the fuel flap: many vehicles carry a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- Cannot see it next to your diesel inlet? In that case check below the bonnet or in the boot — the owner's manual will say which.
- Picking up a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park outside Wolverton? Check with whoever drove it last before leaving, rather than once the light goes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around Northamptonshire that is.
- Stop on level, engine off, with time to spare — not hurried on the side of Burcote Road.
- Daft as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew the cap works — once you have located your filler and read it.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave it on.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Before starting your car, close the cap and look a second time that the diesel cap was never opened off.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you've already poured into the diesel side. Stage five is out.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Wood Burcote already?
Short order, then. Top of that: your motor stays unstarted. The fuel pump runs on plenty of diesels as soon as the ignition is switched on — and so keep it off. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where your fuel is drawn from — so don't top up with diesel to dilute it.
If you are at a forecourt, whether it is the BP Connect or the Shell, ask the attendants to help roll the car clear of the petrol pump. Your own drive around Wood Burcote is the place it stays.
If your engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. On the M1, under 10 miles from Wood Burcote, that means the next junction. Roughly how far did it go? Hopping across Wood Burcote is smaller a job than a run of under 15 miles to Milton Keynes, and so say.
Wood Burcote: what takes place when our engineers turn up
Our engineers come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside Marie Weller Primary School, near large Urn or on your own driveway. Our technicians ask what got in, roughly how much, and whether it has run, because the replies decide the work and our price. You get that price on the phone, before anyone sets off.
Emptying the tank comes next, then a full flush of the system. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and attacks certain fuel-system metals, and neither washes out unaided. Hence it counts more. Testing comes last: before that, fresh diesel is added, and the filter is cleaned or changed if necessary. Next our technicians fire it up and make sure it runs correctly before leaving.
Most jobs are finished in roughly half an hour once our technicians get there, provided your motor has not run — and the pumps our engineers use are fine on a busy forecourt yet quiet at night beside a house. Your insurer will ask for the engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and you get both at the end. Payment comes on the day, with no deposit. While we travel, take a look at your policy; plenty carry cover for misfuelling.
About Wood Burcote itself
Wood Burcote is a small hamlet in Northamptonshire, situated in the East Midlands region of England, with an elevation of around 110 metres. Wood Burcote lies near the towns of Towcester and Milton Keynes, and is close to other nearby places such as Heathencote and Pury End. Wood Burcote has a population of approximately 1170 residents, who mostly live in detached houses.
AdBlue drains round Wood Burcote, and Northamptonshire beyond
Being a rural hamlet, Wood Burcote has the same vans as nearby places — Towcester, Pury End — right across NN postcodes and the wider area around them. Fastest of all: quote a NN12 6 postcode to the van.
Your car stays put. Wherever it stands — near bench scupture- UFO, in a lay-by heading to Woodburcote, on a drive — that is where it gets drained. Assuming won't help at the back of Towcester Surestart Children Centre, on a boundary, or somewhere awkward to pin down; phone and check.
The short version for Wood Burcote motorists
First, the cap; after that, the pour. AdBlue in the diesel tank after all? Leave it switched off and phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, across Northamptonshire.