Why It Happens and How to Prevent It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Yarford
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case set this page down a moment, leave your ignition and engine off, and phone 0333 366 0103. Caught before the engine runs, it is normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is in Yarford. Reading before the event? In that case the rest explains how it happens and how to prevent it happening at all.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle: two tanks, two fillers
Plenty of current diesels on the roads around Yarford and Pickney carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the engine. Its own tank holds it, and from there it goes to the exhaust, where spraying cleans the gas.
Separate tanks, separate fillers. On a lot of cars the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in the boot or under the bonnet. Diesel goes in at each forecourt visit, again and again. Someone who has to stop and work out where it goes normally tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less regularly. It's in that gap that the error lives.
AdBlue in the diesel tank around Yarford: how it happens
Seldom is it carelessness: usually three things coincide.
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 drive off Yarford Road before work, or in the car park at the pub in the village on the way home.
Then, the hand goes for the cap it would have used on the old motor — because a hire car, a new vehicle or a company car places the fillers where your last one didn't.
A spouted bottle meets no obstacle at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. And so the tip, after begun, keeps on. Cushuish or the heart of Yarford: it takes the same few seconds either way.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Check these before pouring, at a forecourt in Yarford or a driveway over in Kingston St Mary. Seconds, that's all.
- Blue and lettering: an AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually does not. Go by the cap, not its position.
- Plenty of vehicles fit AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- A label inside the fuel flap frequently says which fuel goes where, on plenty of motors. Check for it.
- Can't find it next to your diesel filler? Then check below the bonnet or in your boot — the handbook will say where.
- The person who drove the vehicle last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park at Taunton, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
Wherever around Somerset the light comes on, here is a routine for that day.
- Pull in somewhere level, motor off, with time to spare — never rushing on the side of Kestercombe Lane.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and it works.
- The two behind a single flap? Then make sure the lid on your diesel side is still closed before raising the bottle.
- Finish once that tank is topped up or the bottle runs dry; until then, tip slowly through the built-in spout.
- Close the cap and check a second time. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the car.
Find at step two or three that it has already gone into your diesel side? So stop right there. Step five stays out.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, in Yarford?
Short list, then. First: the engine stays off. Don't switch your ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where the fuel is sucked from — so don't top up with diesel to dilute it.
On a forecourt — the nearest petrol station, BP or another — the staff will usually help roll the car clear, if you ask. Leave it where it is if you are on your own driveway around Yarford.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if the engine has already run. Yarford sits under 5 miles from the M5; there, use the first exit. About how far did it go? Hopping across Yarford is smaller a job than a run of under 25 miles towards Wells, and so say.
Yarford: what happens when we turn up
By Kingston St Mary Church of England Primary School, near Hobby Horse Riding Centre or on your own drive: wherever your car has stopped, our technicians come to it. Both the work and the price depend on three answers — what fluid, which quantity, and if it has run — so our engineers ask. You get that quote by phone, before anybody heads out.
Your system is then cleaned thoroughly, after the tank is emptied. Not like petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and eats at certain fuel-system metals, and neither clears out unaided. Hence it matters more. Once your filter is cleaned — or replaced, where required — clean diesel goes in, and finally the car gets tested. The engine is started next and checked to make sure it runs correctly, all before we go.
Unrun vehicles usually need a half-hour visit after the moment we arrive. The equipment is fine on a live filling station, and quiet enough for a residential street after dark. Nothing upfront; you settle up that day. Afterwards, a VAT invoice and the report from the engineer go to you for the insurer. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours whilst we are on the way.
About Yarford, briefly
Yarford is a small hamlet in inland Somerset, situated at an elevation of 61 metres, with detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation. Yarford lies near several other small settlements, including Cushuish, Fennington, and Fulford, and is approximately 23.7 miles from the city of Wells. Yarford is a rural community with a population of around 516 people, located in the South West region of England. Yarford is also relatively distant from London, being around 133.8 miles away.
AdBlue drains in Yarford and across Somerset
Yarford is a rural hamlet, and the teams that cover it also work the places near it, Fennington and Fulford among them, across the TA postcode area. Give a postcode beginning TA2 8, and our van gets there quickest.
Your car remains put. Anywhere it stands — near Kingston St. Mary Village Hall, on a layby en route to Yarford Orchards, at home — that's where it is drained. If you're close to a border, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of St Marys Church, ring and ask rather than guessing.
For Yarford drivers, the short version
Before you tip, read the cap. AdBlue in your diesel tank regardless? Keep the vehicle switched off and ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, throughout Somerset.