Benomley: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
Leave your engine and ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103 now — reading can wait if AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Caught before your engine runs, it's normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is around Benomley. The remainder of this page covers why it happens and how to make sure it doesn't — handy if you're reading before it has happened.
AdBlue in a diesel motor: two tanks, two fillers
Diesel feeds your motor — yet plenty of newer diesels seen about Benomley and Almondbury Common hold a second fluid too. The exhaust, not the motor, is where AdBlue ends up: dosed into the fumes to clean them, from a separate tank.
Different tanks, separate fillers. Other vehicles keep the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; plenty more place the two together behind one flap. The diesel side is topped up at the pump all the time. Much less frequently, the AdBlue side gets topped up — normally from a bottle, by someone thinking about where it goes. The mistake lives in that gap.
Benomley: how AdBlue in the diesel tank takes place
Carelessness rarely explains it. What does is three things coming up together.
On a driveway off Benomley Road before work, or in the car park at Radcliffe Arms on the way home: that's where the hurried top-up happens. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and if it is gone, limp mode kicks in.
Then the vehicle is unfamiliar. A hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and your hand gets to for the cap it would have used on the old one.
Lastly, the spout fits: a diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it slides in just as easily, and after the tip starts, nothing stops it. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Benomley or out in Almondbury.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
A couple of seconds is all the checks take — so run through them before you tip anything, on a driveway in Moldgreen or a forecourt around Benomley.
- Blue and lettering: an AdBlue cap is often blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually does not. Trust the cap, not where it sits.
- Look at the size: the smaller neck is, on many vehicles, the AdBlue one.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Plenty of vehicles say there which fuel goes where.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that's where your filler is if it's not by your diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- Picking up a hire or company car, say at the car park at Huddersfield? Check with whoever drove the car last before leaving, not when the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
For the day the light comes on — wherever it is in West Yorkshire — a routine to use.
- Turn off after you park — flat ground, engine off, and never in a rush beside Benomley Crescent at the roadside.
- Find the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and say the name "AdBlue" aloud while unscrewing it. It sounds silly. It works.
- Both under one flap? So confirm the lid on your diesel side is still closed ahead of lifting the bottle.
- Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty.
- Only then, start the car: close the cap, check again, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
Find at step two or three that it's already gone into the diesel side? So stop just there. Never go on to stage five.
Benomley: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank?
The short order of things, beginning with not starting your motor. On plenty of diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so don't switch the vehicle on. Diluting it with more diesel won't work, because AdBlue settles to the bottom rather than blending — and that is where your fuel is pulled from.
If you are at a forecourt, whether it is the Tesco or the Esso, ask the attendants to help roll the car away from the pump. At home in Benomley? So the vehicle stays where it is.
Where your motor has been run already, stop safely then turn the car off. Benomley sits under 5 miles from the M62; there, use the first exit. A short hop across Benomley is a smaller job than a run towards Bradford, under 15 miles away, and so tell us roughly how far it went.
Our arrival in Benomley, and what occurs next
Our van reaches your car anywhere it has come to rest — your own driveway, beside Almondbury Library, or by All Hallows' CofE (VA) Primary School. Those answers determine this work and our quote, and so our engineers ask what got in, about how much, and whether it's run. That quote is given on the call, before any van leaves.
Then your tank is emptied and the fuel system cleaned thoroughly. Unlike petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and eats at some fuel-system metals, and none of that washes out by itself. Hence it matters more. Testing is at the end: before that, clean diesel is added, and the fuel filter is flushed or replaced as needed. Your engine is fired up next and checked to make sure it runs properly, all before our technicians go.
Unstarted vehicles usually mean a half-hour visit after arrival. The equipment is safe on a live forecourt, and quiet enough for a driveway late at night. The insurer usually wants the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and both are yours once this job is done. Payment comes on the day, with no money upfront. It is worth checking your insurance while we travel to you: misfuelling cover comes with many policies.
About Benomley itself
Benomley is a suburban area situated on the riverside in West Yorkshire, with an elevation of 162 metres. Benomley lies approximately 10.8 miles from Bradford and is surrounded by nearby places such as Almondbury and Lower Houses. Benomley has a population of around 3934 people and predominantly consists of semi-detached housing. Benomley is located about 162.1 miles from London, making it a relatively distant suburb from the capital city.
AdBlue drains across West Yorkshire, Benomley included
Benomley is a residential suburb, and the vans that cover it also work the towns near it, Lower Houses and Longley among them, across the HD postcode area. Quote a postcode that starts HD5 8, and the van arrives quickest.
The car stays where it is. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street near The Wesley Centre, a lay-by on the way to Almondbury Recreation Ground, a driveway. Ring and ask rather than guessing if you are close to a border, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of All Hallows Parish Church.
In short, for Benomley motorists
Tip nothing until you have read the cap. Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, anywhere across West Yorkshire, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless — so leave the vehicle off then ring 0333 366 0103.