Wymott: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? Then put this page aside a moment, leave the ignition and motor off, then phone 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a full flush, done just where the vehicle stands in Wymott, is usually what it needs when caught before your motor runs. The remainder of this page covers why it happens and how to make sure it doesn't — useful if you're reading before it has happened.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel car
Many modern diesels on the roads around Wymott and Newtown carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the engine. AdBlue's own tank holds it, and from there it goes to your exhaust, where spraying treats the fumes.
Different tanks, separate fillers. Under one flap, next to each other: that is the arrangement on many motors. On others, AdBlue's filler is under the bonnet or in your boot instead. The diesel side is filled at the petrol pump all the time. Rarely filled, AdBlue normally comes from a bottle, poured by a driver who has to stop and think what filler to use. The mistake lives in that gap.
AdBlue in your diesel tank around Wymott: how it takes place
Carelessness rarely explains it. What does is three things coming up at once.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and if it runs out completely, your vehicle drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off The Maples before work, or in the car park outside the pub in the village on the way home.
Unfamiliar cars come second, too. Rentals, new cars and company cars put their fillers differently, and the hand reaches for the cap used on the old one.
Third, the spout fits: a diesel filler or AdBlue one, it goes in as easily, and once the tip begins, nothing halts it. It's a few seconds, whether in Moss Side or right in the heart of Wymott.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Whether a Wymott forecourt or a driveway out in Seven Stars, take a couple of seconds over these before anything is poured in.
- Read the cap instead of going by where it sits: AdBlue ones are often blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps usually aren't.
- Many motors fit AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- Lift the flap and check for a label — many vehicles mark what belongs in which filler right there.
- The handbook. If your filler isn't by your diesel cap, it is in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Collecting a hire or company car, say at the car park outside Croston? Ask the person who drove the car last before you set off, rather than once the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around Lancashire that is.
- Park and switch off. Not on a slope, not with your engine running, and not in a rush on the side of Wray Crescent.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after you find the AdBlue filler and read it. Silly, perhaps, yet it works.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift 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 again. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start your car.
Spot at stage two or three that it's already gone into the diesel side? So stop right there. Never go on to stage five.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Wymott already?
What follows is a short order of things, starting with no starting the motor. The fuel pump runs on many diesels the moment your ignition goes on — and so leave it off. Diluting it with extra diesel won't work, since AdBlue sinks to the bottom instead of blending — and that is where your fuel is drawn from.
At a forecourt — Texaco, Tesco or another — the staff will normally help push the vehicle away, when you ask. If you're on your own drive in Wymott, leave the vehicle where it sits.
If the engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. Leave the M6 — under 3 miles out of Wymott — at the first junction. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Preston, under 10 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Wymott.
When we arrive around Wymott, what happens?
By Leyland St James Church of England Primary School, near Ulnes Walton Village Hall or on your own drive: wherever the car has stopped, we come to it. The answers determine the work and the price, so we ask what was put in, roughly how much, and whether it has run. You get that quote by phone, before anybody heads out.
Next: a drain, then a thorough flush of the entire system. More than with petrol, it matters with AdBlue: the crystals form, some metals are attacked, and none of it washes out unaided, no matter how long it sits. After your filter is cleaned — or replaced, if needed — clean diesel is added, and finally the car is tested. We do not go until it has been started and is running smoothly.
If your engine has not run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we're there, using pumps that are safe on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house after dark. Nothing in advance; you settle up on the day. At the end, the VAT invoice and the report from the engineer are handed to you for the insurer. Misfuelling cover is part of many insurance policies — so use the wait to check yours.
About Wymott, for a moment
Wymott is a small village in Lancashire, situated inland near the city of Preston. Wymott has a relatively low elevation of 18 metres and is located close to nearby places such as Moss Side and Cocker Bar. Wymott is characterized by its predominantly terraced housing and is home to a population of around 2092 residents. Wymott is also within a short distance of Barbers Moor, a nearby area of natural interest.
AdBlue drains about Wymott, and Lancashire beyond
Wymott is a rural village, and our vans that cover it also work the towns near it, Cocker Bar and Barbers Moor among them, across the PR postcode area. A postcode starting PR26 8 gets our van to you fastest.
Moving the vehicle is not necessary. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to Wymott Park, a side street close to St James: our engineers drain it where it sits. Ring and ask instead of guessing if you are close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain, like the back of Orthodox Church of the Holy Apostles.
In short, for Wymott motorists
Always, the cap; after that, the tip. Even so AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will drain it where it is, anywhere around Lancashire: keep it off then phone 0333 366 0103.