Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Bennetland: Why It Happens
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the engine and your ignition off and call 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a thorough flush, done right where the vehicle sits in Bennetland, is usually what it takes when caught before your motor runs. Here in advance? Then the rest covers why it comes about and how to prevent it happening at all.
AdBlue in a diesel motor: two tanks, two fillers
Diesel goes to the motor — but many modern diesels driven about Bennetland and Cheapsides carry another liquid too. Your exhaust, not your engine, is where AdBlue goes: sprayed into the fumes to clean it, from a separate tank.
Different tanks, separate fillers. Under one flap, next to each other: that's the arrangement on many cars. On others, AdBlue's filler sits beneath the bonnet or in the boot instead. Diesel gets filled at each forecourt visit, week in, week out. Seldom filled, AdBlue normally goes in from a bottle, poured by a driver who must stop and think which filler it needs. That gap is where the error lives.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank happen in Bennetland?
Rarely is it carelessness: usually three things line up.
Haste follows from the warning. The car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank sends it into limp mode — so the top-up gets done quickly, before work on a driveway off Bennetland Lane, or on the way home in the car park at Cross Keys Inn.
The old car's filler is where the hand reaches — yet a hire car, a new car or a company car keeps the fillers somewhere else. That's the second thing: an unfamiliar motor.
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 tip once it has started. Gilberdyke or the heart of Bennetland: it takes the same few seconds in both.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Before you pour anything, whether on a drive in Greenoak or a forecourt around Bennetland, check these. They take a few seconds.
- Check the cap rather than going by where it sits: AdBlue ones are frequently blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones normally aren't.
- The size. On plenty of vehicles the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- A label inside your fuel flap often says which fuel goes where, on plenty of motors. Look for it.
- In the 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 Gilberdyke, 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 across East Riding of Yorkshire that is.
- Pull in somewhere level, engine off, with time to spare — not rushing on the side of Main Road.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and it works.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your 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 the car.
Discover at the second or third stage that AdBlue went in the diesel filler? That is where you stop. Never carry on to step five.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Bennetland already?
Short list, then. First: the engine remains off. Do not switch the ignition on; on plenty of 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 your fuel is drawn from.
On a forecourt — BP, Triangle Motor Co. or any other — the attendants will normally help roll your car away, if you ask. Your own driveway around Bennetland is where it should stay.
Where the motor has run by now, stop somewhere safe then switch the vehicle off. Leave the M62 — under a mile out of Bennetland — at the next exit. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Kingston upon Hull, under 25 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Bennetland.
Bennetland: what takes place when our technicians arrive
We come to the vehicle wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside Gilberdyke Primary School, close to Gilberdyke Village Hall or on your own drive. Both the work and the quote depend on three replies — which liquid, what amount, and if it's run — so we ask. That quote is given on the call, before any van leaves.
The system is then purged thoroughly, after the tank is cleared. More than with petrol, it counts here: crystals form, certain metals are attacked, and nothing clears out unaided, no matter how long it is left. The filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the vehicle is tested. Before we go, our technicians fire it up and make sure that it is running smoothly.
Unstarted cars usually mean a half-hour visit from arrival. The equipment is safe on a live forecourt, and hushed enough for a driveway after dark. The insurer will ask for the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and you get both at the end. Payment comes on the day, with no deposit. Before we get there, take a look at your insurance documents; plenty include cover for misfuelling.
About Bennetland and where it is
Bennetland is a small suburban area in the East Riding of Yorkshire, situated inland at a low elevation of around 4 metres. Bennetland lies near the villages of Gilberdyke and Bellasize, and is within commuting distance of Kingston upon Hull. Bennetland is characterised by its predominantly detached housing stock, reflecting its relatively recent development as a residential area. Bennetland is one of several small communities in the region that have grown up around the larger urban centre of Kingston upon Hull.
Bennetland and East Riding of Yorkshire: AdBlue drains across the area
As a residential suburb, Bennetland shares its vans surrounding places — Bellasize, Staddlethorpe — all the way through HU postcodes and the surrounding area beyond. Quickest of all: quote a HU15 2 postcode for our van.
There's no need to move your car. We drain it where it is — a side street near St Stephen's, a lay-by on the way to Ings View Sports Field, a driveway. Ring and ask instead of assuming if you are close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of Newport Village Hall.
In short, for Bennetland motorists
Tip nothing till you've read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank all the same, leave it off and call 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it waits, anywhere around East Riding of Yorkshire.