Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Bakers Fields: Why It Happens
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? In that case set this page down a moment, leave the ignition and motor off, and ring 0333 366 0103. In Bakers Fields, catching it before the motor runs normally means a drain and a thorough flush where it stands. If you are reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it takes place and how to make sure it does not.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle, and its separate tank
Diesel feeds the engine — but many newer diesels driven about Bakers Fields and Colwick carry another fluid too. Your exhaust, not the motor, is where AdBlue goes: sprayed into the gas to fresh them, from a separate tank.
Each tank comes with a filler of its own. Many of vehicles share a single flap for both, while some move the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. Diesel goes in at every filling station call-out, again and again. The AdBlue side is filled far less commonly, normally from a bottle, and usually by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. It is in that gap that the mistake lives.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank happens in Bakers Fields
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
Haste follows from the warning. Your car warns you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank sends the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up happens quickly, before work on a drive off Middledale Road, or on the way home in the car park outside The Nags Head.
New-to-you vehicles are next, as well. Hire cars, new vehicles and company motors place their fillers in new places, and the hand goes for the cap used on the old one.
Third, the bottle goes in: a diesel filler or AdBlue one, it goes in just as readily, and after the tip begins, no part halts it. Thorneywood or the heart of Bakers Fields: it takes the same few seconds either way.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Check these first, at a forecourt in Bakers Fields or a drive out in Porchester. Seconds, no more.
- Where it sits can mislead; the cap does not. AdBlue caps tend to be blue or carry the word "AdBlue" — diesel caps normally do not.
- On plenty of vehicles, the size gives it away: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- Check inside your fuel flap: plenty of vehicles have a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that's where your filler sits if it's not by your diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- The previous driver knows. Ask when you collect a hire car or fleet car — from Netherfield's car park, say — not once the warning appears.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
Wherever around Nottinghamshire the light comes on, this is a routine for the day.
- Not in a rush on the side of Wheatley Drive, 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 daft and it does the trick.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave the vehicle on.
- Finish when that tank fills or the bottle runs dry; before that, tip slowly using the built-in spout.
- Before starting the car, close the cap and look a second time that your diesel cap never came off.
Discover during the second or third stage that the bottle went into the wrong filler? That's where you stop. Do not go on to step five.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, around Bakers Fields?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start the motor. Don't switch the ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Don't top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where the fuel is drawn from.
The staff at Shell, Esso or any forecourt will usually help pushing the car clear when you ask. Leave it where it is if you are on your own driveway in Bakers Fields.
Already run? Pull over once it is safe, then switch off. Come off the M1 — under 10 miles out of Bakers Fields — at the next exit. Roughly how far did it go? Crossing Bakers Fields is less work than a trip of under 3 miles towards Nottingham, and so tell us.
Our arrival around Bakers Fields, and what happens next
By Parkdale Primary School, near Dales Church or on your own drive: wherever the vehicle has stopped, our engineers come to it. Our technicians ask what got in, roughly how much, and whether it's run, since those replies decide this work and the quote. You get that price on the phone, before anyone heads out.
Then that tank is drained and your system rinsed thoroughly. Unlike petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and attacks certain fuel-system metals, and neither clears away unaided. That is why it counts more. Testing is last: before that, clean diesel is added, and your filter is flushed or replaced if necessary. We do not leave until it has been started and is running properly.
Most jobs are finished in roughly half an hour after we get there, provided your engine hasn't run — and the pumps our engineers use are fine on a busy forecourt yet quiet at night beside a house. The insurer will ask for an engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and you get both once the job is done. Payment comes on the day, with no money upfront. It is worth checking your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with many policies.
About Bakers Fields, for a moment
Bakers Fields is a suburban area located near Nottingham in the East Midlands, sitting at an elevation of around 89 metres. Bakers Fields is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock and is situated close to nearby places such as Thorneywood, Carlton, and Netherfield. Bakers Fields is a relatively small area, with a population of approximately 7705 residents, and is about 2.1 miles from Nottingham city centre. Bakers Fields is also around 108.6 miles from London, making it a commuter-friendly location.
AdBlue drains about Bakers Fields, and Nottinghamshire beyond
Throughout NG postcodes, our teams that cover Bakers Fields — a residential suburb — work the nearby locations too, Netherfield and Carlton among them. Quickest of all: give a NG4 1 postcode for our van.
The car remains put. Draining takes place on the spot, be it a drive, a road near Gospel Hall, or a lay-by towards Parkdale Playground. If you're near a border, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of St. Johns, ring and ask rather than guessing.
Bakers Fields people: the short version
First, the cap; then, the tip. Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, anywhere across Nottinghamshire, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank regardless — and so leave it off then call 0333 366 0103.