AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Alburne Park: Why It Occurs and How to Prevent It
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case set this page down for now, keep your ignition and motor off, and call 0333 366 0103. Usually, if your motor hasn't turned, it's emptied and fully rinsed where your vehicle sits around Alburne Park. Not happened yet? Further down, the page covers the why it takes place and the ways to avoid it for good.
AdBlue in a diesel car: two tanks, two fillers
No single liquid but two: that is how many newer diesels near Alburne Park and Auchmuty run, with diesel feeding your engine. AdBlue's own tank keeps it, and from there it is sent to the exhaust, and there a spray treats the fumes.
Separate tanks, different fillers. Plenty of cars share a single flap for both, whereas others put the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. Diesel gets filled at every filling station visit, again and again. Rarely filled, AdBlue normally goes in out of a bottle, tipped by someone who must stop and think which filler it needs. That gap is where the slip lives.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank occur around Alburne Park?
Seldom is it carelessness: usually three things line up.
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 Orchard Drive before work, or in the car park at Otter's Head on the way home.
The old car's cap is where your hand goes — yet a hire car, a new car or a company car keeps the fillers elsewhere. That is the second factor: an unfamiliar vehicle.
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 pour after it has started. It's seconds, be it in Mount Frost or bang in the heart of Alburne Park.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
Look at these first, on a forecourt around Alburne Park or a driveway over in Markinch. Seconds, no more.
- Read the cap instead of going by position: AdBlue caps are commonly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps usually aren't.
- Look at the size: the smaller filler neck is, on plenty of vehicles, the AdBlue one.
- Open the flap and check for a label — many vehicles show which belongs in each inlet right there.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that's where the filler sits if it is not by your diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- The person who drove it last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park at Markinch, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever in Fife that is.
- Not in a rush on the side of Alburne Park, not on a slope, not with your motor running: park and switch off properly.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after you find the AdBlue filler and read it. Daft, yes, but it works.
- The diesel cap remains on. Where both share a flap, make sure it's closed before the bottle comes up.
- Gently is best, through the bottle's own spout, until it is full or the bottle runs out.
- Close the cap, and look again — making sure the diesel cap stayed closed throughout. After that, start the car.
Find at the second or third step that the bottle went into the diesel tank? That's where you stop. Step five is off limits.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, around Alburne Park?
The short order of things, beginning with not starting the engine. On plenty of diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so do not switch the car on. Thinning it with extra diesel won't work, because AdBlue settles to the bottom rather than blending — and that is where your fuel is drawn from.
On a forecourt — Morrisons, Asda or another — the attendants will normally help push the vehicle clear, if you ask. On your own drive around Alburne Park? Then the vehicle remains put.
Already run? Stop when it's sensible, then switch off. Leave the M90 — under 10 miles out of Alburne Park — at the next junction. About how far did it go? Crossing Alburne Park is less a job than a trip of under 15 miles to Dunfermline, and so tell us.
What happens when our technicians turn up around Alburne Park
We come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside the local primary school, near The Lomond Centre or on your own drive. Both the work and our quote rest on three answers — which liquid, which amount, and if it's run — so our engineers ask. You hear that price by phone, before anyone heads out.
Then the tank is drained and your system flushed thoroughly. Unlike petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and eats at certain fuel-system metals, and none of it washes away by itself. Hence it counts more. After your filter is cleaned — or replaced, where needed — clean diesel is added, and then your vehicle is tested. Your engine is started next and checked to make sure it runs properly, all before our technicians leave.
With pumps fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs where your motor hasn't run take roughly half an hour after we are there. Nothing upfront; you settle up that day. At the end, the VAT invoice and the report from the engineer go to you for the insurer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours whilst we are on the way.
About Alburne Park
Alburne Park is a suburban area situated on the riverside in Fife, with a mix of terraced housing and local amenities. Alburne Park sits at an elevation of 71 metres, overlooking the surrounding landscape. Alburne Park is located near several other residential areas, including Mount Frost, Woodside, and Queensway, and is approximately 14.9 miles from Dunfermline.
Alburne Park and Fife: AdBlue drains across the area
Alburne Park is a residential suburb, and our vans that cover it also work the towns around it, Woodside and Queensway among them, across the KY postcode area. The van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting KY7 5.
There's no need to shift your car. The drain takes place on the spot, whether a drive, a street near Woodside Community Centre, or a layby on the way to John Dixon Park. If you're close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of The Markinch Boys, ring and ask rather than guessing.
In short, for Alburne Park drivers
Always, the cap; after that, the tip. Still AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will drain it where it stands, wherever around Fife: switch the vehicle off and ring 0333 366 0103.