AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Worle: How It Occurs and How to Avoid It
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your motor and the ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103. Normally, when the engine hasn't run, it is emptied and thoroughly cleaned where the vehicle is around Worle. The remainder of this page explains why it happens and how to ensure it doesn't — handy if you're reading before it has happened.
AdBlue in a diesel car, and its separate tank
Plenty of newer diesels around Milton, like those in Worle, carry on two fluids; the engine gets just the diesel. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into the exhaust stream and cleans it.
Each tank has its own filler. On a lot of vehicles the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in your boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is topped up at the pump all the time. The AdBlue side is topped up far less often, normally from a bottle, and usually by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. It is in the gap that the slip lives.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs around Worle
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
On a drive off Worle Court before work, or in the car park at The Old Kings Head heading home: that's where the hurried top-up takes place. Why the rush? As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and once it is empty, limp mode follows.
New-to-you cars are next, too. Hire cars, new motors and company motors place their fillers in new places, and habit 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. Locking Castle or the middle of Worle: it takes the same few seconds either way.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
A few seconds is all these take — so run through them before you pour anything, on a drive in Norton or a forecourt in Worle.
- Read the cap instead of going by position: AdBlue ones are commonly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones normally are not.
- The size. On plenty of cars the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Open the flap and look for a label — plenty of motors show what belongs in each filler just there.
- The handbook shows which it is if your filler is not next to your diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- Ask the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — when you collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside the nearest station.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around Somerset that is.
- Switch off once parked — flat ground, motor stopped, and not in a rush beside Cherrywood Road at the roadside.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once finding the AdBlue filler and read it. Silly, yes, yet it does the trick.
- The two under a single flap? So confirm the lid on the diesel side stays shut ahead of raising the bottle.
- Gently does it, through the bottle's own spout, until it is full or the bottle runs out.
- Before you start the vehicle, close the cap and look a second time that the diesel cap never opened off.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you have already poured into the diesel side. Stage five is off limits.
Worle: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
The short order of things, beginning with not starting the motor. Do not switch the ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Diluting it with more diesel fails, since AdBlue settles to the bottom instead of blending — and that is where your fuel is pulled from.
If you're at a forecourt, whether it is the Esso or the Sainsbury's, ask the attendants to help roll the car away from the petrol pump. On your own drive in Worle? Then your car remains put.
When the engine has run by now, stop safely and switch it off. On the M5, under 3 miles from Worle, that means the next exit. A short hop across Worle is a smaller job than a run towards Cardiff, under 15 miles away, and so tell us about how far it went.
Worle: what happens when our technicians get there
Wherever the vehicle came to rest, be it by Worle Village Primary School, beside Worle Community Centre or on your own drive, our van travels to it. The replies decide this work and our quote, so our engineers ask what went in, roughly how much, and whether it has run. Nobody sets off before you have heard our price by phone.
After that: a drain, then a thorough flush of the whole system. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't wash out on its own. A test is last: before that, fresh diesel is added, and the filter is flushed or replaced as needed. We don't go until it has been fired up and is running correctly.
Unrun cars usually mean a half-hour visit after the moment we arrive. The kit is fine on a busy forecourt, and quiet enough for a residential street late at night. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Misfuelling cover is included in plenty of insurance policies — and so make use of the wait to check yours.
About Worle itself
Worle is a suburban area in Somerset, situated on the coast of the Bristol Channel, with an elevation of around 8 metres above sea level. Worle lies near several notable places, including Locking Castle, Wick St Lawrence, and Weston Village, and is approximately 13.6 miles from Cardiff. Worle has a population of around 7641 people, predominantly living in semi-detached housing. Worle is also relatively far from London, at a distance of around 120.9 miles.
AdBlue drains across Somerset, Worle included
Worle is a residential suburb, and the teams that cover it also work the places around it, Wick St Lawrence and Weston Village among them, across the BS postcode area. A postcode starting BS22 6 gets the van to you fastest.
The car doesn't need to shift. Draining takes place right there, be it a drive, a street near St Mark's Church, or a lay-by towards Lynch Farm. Ring and ask rather than assuming if you are near a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of St. Martin's Church.
Worle people: the short version
Read the cap before you tip. Still AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will drain it where it is, wherever in Somerset: switch the car off then call 0333 366 0103.