Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Aylestone Park: Why It Occurs
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the engine and the ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a thorough flush, done just where your car stands around Aylestone Park, is normally all it needs if caught before the engine runs. The remainder of this page explains why it takes place and how to make sure it doesn't — useful if you're reading ahead of time.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel car
Plenty of modern diesels in West Knighton, as well as Aylestone Park, run on two fluids; your motor gets only your diesel. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into your exhaust gas to clean it.
Each tank has a filler of its own. Many of motors share a single flap for both, while others put the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is fuelled at the petrol pump all the time. The AdBlue side is fuelled far less frequently, normally from a bottle, and usually by someone who has to stop and think where it goes. It is in that gap that the error lives.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank take place around Aylestone Park?
Carelessness seldom explains it. What does is three things coming up at once.
On a driveway off St. Andrews Road before work, or in the car park outside The Cricketers on the way home: that is where the hurried top-up happens. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue runs low your car tells you, and once it's gone, limp mode kicks in.
Next, the hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old motor — because a hire car, a new car or a company car places the fillers somewhere your last one didn't.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, so nothing stops the pour once it has started. Whether it happens in Aylestone or the middle of Aylestone Park, it's the same few seconds.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Before you tip anything, whether on a drive in Rowley Fields or a forecourt in Aylestone Park, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- Where it sits can mislead; the cap doesn't. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or bear the name "AdBlue" — diesel caps normally do not.
- Look at the size: the smaller filler neck is, on plenty of motors, the AdBlue one.
- Lift the flap and look for a label — plenty of cars show what goes in each filler right there.
- Can't see it next to the diesel filler? Then check below the bonnet or inside the boot — the owner's manual will say which.
- The person who drove the car last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park at South Wigston, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever in Leicestershire that is.
- Not in a rush on the side of Handley Street, not on a slope, not with the motor running: park then switch off first.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and it does the trick.
- Both behind one flap? So make sure the lid on the diesel side is still closed ahead of lifting 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 once more. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the car.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Do not go on to stage five.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Aylestone Park?
Short order, then. First: the engine stays unstarted. The fuel pump runs on plenty of diesels the moment your ignition goes on — and so leave it off. Topping up with diesel will not thin it: rather than mixing, AdBlue sinks to the base of the tank, right where the fuel is taken from.
The staff at BP, Asda or another forecourt will usually lend a hand to push your car away when asked. Your own drive around Aylestone Park is where it stays.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if your motor has already run. Aylestone Park lies under 3 miles from the M1; on it, take the first junction. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Leicester, under 3 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Aylestone Park.
What takes place when we get there around Aylestone Park
By Marriott Primary School, near Masjid E Abdullah ibn Mas'ud or on your own driveway: wherever your car has stopped, our technicians come to it. Both the work and our price depend on three replies — which liquid, which amount, and whether it has run — so our technicians ask. Nobody sets off before you have had the price over the phone.
The system is then flushed thoroughly, once your tank is emptied. Much more than with petrol, it counts with AdBlue: the crystals form, certain metals corrode, and nothing clears out on its own, however long it sits. The filter flushed or, if needed, swapped; fresh diesel in; then a test of your car. Before we go, our engineers start it and make sure that it is running correctly.
With pumps safe on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs in which the engine has not run take roughly half an hour after we are there. Paying happens on the day, not upfront, and you are given the documents an insurer wants: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. It's worth looking at your insurance as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with many policies.
About Aylestone Park
Aylestone Park is a suburban area located on the outskirts of Leicester, near the River Soar, with a mix of semi-detached housing and local amenities. Aylestone Park sits at an elevation of 76 metres, close to the city centre and nearby places such as Aylestone and Knighton Fields. Aylestone Park is home to a population of around 8686 people, with easy access to Leicester and its surrounding areas. Aylestone Park benefits from its proximity to the city, while also maintaining a distinct local character.
AdBlue drains across Leicestershire, Aylestone Park included
Knighton Fields and Eyres Monsell are among the places near Aylestone Park, a residential suburb, that the same vans cover, throughout LE postcodes. Our van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting LE2 8.
The car stays put. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Aylestone Hall Gardens, a side street near Uptonsteel County Ground: our engineers drain the vehicle where it sits. Tricky to pin down, like the back of Leicester City Women's Training Ground? By a border? Checking beats guessing, so ring.
The short version for Aylestone Park drivers
Before you pour, read the cap. AdBlue in the diesel tank after all? Keep it switched off then ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, throughout Leicestershire.