Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Worth: Why It Occurs
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the motor and the ignition off and call 0333 366 0103. Caught before the motor runs, it's normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is in Worth. Nothing happened yet? Further down, the page explains the reasons it occurs and the how to avoid it for good.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel car
Many current diesels on the roads round Worth and Statenborough carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your motor. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into the exhaust gas to clean it.
Each tank has one filler of its own. Other vehicles keep the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; a lot of others place both together under one flap. Diesel goes in on every filling station call-out, week in, week out. Far less commonly, the AdBlue side is topped up — normally from a bottle, by someone working out where it goes. The error lives in that gap.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank occur around Worth?
Seldom is it carelessness: normally three things line up.
On a drive off Temple Way before work, or in the car park at The Blue Pigeon on the way home: that's where the hurried top-up takes place. Why the rush? As AdBlue gets low your car tells you, and once it is empty, limp mode kicks in.
Unfamiliar cars are next, as well. Hire cars, new cars and company vehicles place their fillers in new places, and habit goes for the cap it used on the old one.
Nothing stops the tip once it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Whether it takes place in Felderland or the middle of Worth, it is the same few seconds.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
A few seconds is all the checks take — so check them before you pour anything, on a drive in Hacklinge or a forecourt in Worth.
- Position misleads; the cap does not. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or carry the word "AdBlue" — diesel ones usually don't.
- Look at the size: the smaller filler neck is, on many cars, the AdBlue one.
- Check inside your fuel flap: many vehicles carry a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- The handbook shows where it is when the filler is not next to the diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- The person who drove the car last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park at Sandwich, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
On the day the light appears — wherever it is around Kent — a routine to use.
- Not in a rush on the side of The Street, not on a slope, not with the motor running: park then switch off properly.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and it does the trick.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave the vehicle on.
- Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check a second time. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Don't carry on to step five.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Worth?
Do not start your engine: that's where the short order of things starts. The fuel pump runs on plenty of diesels the moment the ignition is switched on — so keep it off. Diluting it with more diesel won't work, since AdBlue sinks to the bottom rather than mixing — and that is where your fuel is pulled from.
The attendants at Gulf, Shell or another forecourt will usually help to push the vehicle clear if asked. On your own drive in Worth? So your car remains put.
Already started? Pull over once it is sensible, then switch off. Worth sits under 15 miles from the M20; on it, take the first junction. Distance counts — a quick hop across Worth is a smaller job than driving under 15 miles to Canterbury — so say roughly how far it went.
What happens when we turn up in Worth
Anywhere the car has stopped, whether by Worth Primary School, near St Peter & St Paul or on your own drive, the van travels to it. The replies determine the work and the price, so our technicians ask what went in, roughly how much, and whether it's run. No one heads out until you have had our quote by phone.
After that: a drain, then a full flush of the entire system. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not wash out on its own — which is why the flush counts more here than with petrol. The filter flushed or, where needed, swapped; clean diesel in; then a test of the vehicle. We do not go until it has been started and is running correctly.
If your motor hasn't run, most jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night. Nothing upfront; you settle up that day. At the end, the VAT invoice and a report from the engineer are handed to you for your insurer. While we travel, have a look at your insurance documents; many include cover for misfuelling.
About Worth, briefly
Worth is a small village on the coast of Kent, situated near the towns of Canterbury and Deal. Worth sits at a low elevation of around 6 metres, close to the nearby settlements of Felderland and Stone Cross. Worth has a population of approximately 652 residents, living in predominantly detached housing. Worth is located about 11.5 miles from Canterbury and 65.8 miles from London.
Worth and Kent: AdBlue drains across the area
Stone Cross and Ham are among the places around Worth, a coastal village, that the same teams cover, over CT postcodes. A postcode starting CT14 0 gets our van to you fastest.
Moving the vehicle is not needed. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Raedbrook Wood, a side street close to Sandwich Wildlife Park: our technicians drain it where it stands. Ring and ask instead of guessing if you are near a border, or somewhere hard to explain, like the back of St Andrew.
Worth people: the short version
Read the cap before you pour. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, anywhere around Kent, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank anyway — so leave the vehicle off and phone 0333 366 0103.