AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Wyberton: Why It Occurs and How to Stop It
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? Then set this page down for now, leave the ignition and engine off, and call 0333 366 0103. Normally, when your engine has not run, it is emptied and thoroughly flushed where the vehicle sits in Wyberton. Not happened yet? Below, the rest of the page explains the reasons it takes place and the ways to avoid it altogether.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel vehicle
Not one fluid but two: that is how many newer diesels near Wyberton and Wyberton Fen carry, with diesel feeding the motor. AdBlue goes to the exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Separate tanks, different fillers. Under one flap, side by side: that is the arrangement on a lot of motors. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler is beneath the bonnet or in your boot instead. Topping up your diesel side at the pump happens constantly. A driver who has to stop and work out where it goes normally tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less frequently. The mistake grows in the gap between them.
AdBlue in the diesel tank in Wyberton: how it occurs
Carelessness seldom causes it. What does is three things lining up together.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and if it runs out altogether, the vehicle goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Tytton Lane East before work, or in the car park at The Pincushion Inn on the way home.
Then the car is new. A hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and your hand hits for the cap it would have 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, and so nothing stops the tip after it has started. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Wyberton or out in Skirbeck Quarter.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Whether a Wyberton forecourt or a drive over in Boston, spend a few seconds on these before anything goes in.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap usually isn't. Read it rather than going by position.
- Plenty of cars fit AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Many vehicles say there which fuel goes where.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that is where your filler sits if it's not by the diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- The previous driver knows. Ask when you collect a hire car or fleet car — from Boston's car park, perhaps — not once the warning comes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
When the light goes on, wherever across Lincolnshire, use this routine.
- Not in a rush on the side of Delfield Road, not on a slope, not with the engine running: park then switch off first.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after finding the AdBlue filler and read it. Daft, perhaps, yet it works.
- The two behind one flap? So confirm the lid on the diesel filler stays shut ahead of raising the bottle.
- Gently is best, through the bottle's own spout, until it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Only then, start the car: close the cap, check once more, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you've already poured into the diesel side. Step five is off limits.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Wyberton?
Do not start the engine: that is where the short order of things begins. Leave your ignition off too, since on plenty of diesels it alone starts your fuel pump. Don't top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where your fuel is drawn from.
The staff at EG On the Move, High Street Petrol Station or another forecourt will usually lend a hand to push the car clear if asked. If you are on your own driveway around Wyberton, leave the car where it is.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if the engine has already run. The next exit means the place to come off when you are on the A1(M), under 50 miles from Wyberton. Roughly how far did it go? Crossing Wyberton is less a job than a trip of under 50 miles to Peterborough, and so say.
What happens when our engineers get there in Wyberton
Outside Wyberton Primary Academy, near The Jakemans Community Stadium or on your own driveway: wherever your car has stopped, we come to it. Those replies determine the work and our quote, and so our technicians ask what was put in, roughly how much, and if it's run. On the phone call itself, you are told the price — ahead of dispatch.
Then that tank is emptied and your system purged thoroughly. Not like petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and eats at some fuel-system metals, and neither clears out unaided. That is why it matters more. Testing is at the end: before that, clean diesel is added, and the fuel filter is flushed or replaced if necessary. We don't go until it has been started and is running smoothly.
Unrun cars mostly need a half-hour visit from the moment we arrive. The kit is fine on a busy filling station, and hushed enough for a residential street after dark. No money in advance; you settle up on the day. Afterwards, the VAT invoice and a report from the engineer go to you for the insurer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Wyberton, briefly
Wyberton is a suburban area in Lincolnshire, situated on the riverside with an elevation of around 6 metres. Wyberton lies near several nearby places, including Skirbeck Quarter, Frampton, and Frampton West End, and is approximately 28 miles from Peterborough. Wyberton has a population of around 2975 people and is characterised by predominantly detached housing. Wyberton is also relatively close to the East Midlands region's main urban centres, while still being around 100 miles from London.
AdBlue drains across Lincolnshire, Wyberton included
Frampton and Frampton West End are among the towns near Wyberton, a residential suburb, that the same teams cover, over PE postcodes. Give a postcode beginning PE21 7, and our van gets there fastest.
Your car doesn't need to shift. Wherever it stands — beside Wyberton Community Centre, in a lay-by en route to Garfit's Lane, at home — that is where it gets cleared. If you're close to a border, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Tytton Hall, ring and ask rather than guessing.
Wyberton drivers: the short version
Read the cap before you pour. Still AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will drain it where it stands, wherever in Lincolnshire: switch the car off then ring 0333 366 0103.