AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Bilborough: Why It Happens and How to Prevent It
Pause reading a minute if the diesel tank already holds AdBlue in it: ignition off, motor off, and ring 0333 366 0103. A drain and a thorough flush, carried out right where the vehicle sits in Bilborough, is normally what it takes when caught before the motor runs. If you're 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
Plenty of newer diesels around Broxtowe, as well as Bilborough, carry on two fluids; the engine gets only the diesel. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into the exhaust stream to clean it.
Each tank has its own filler. Other vehicles keep the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; plenty of others place the two side by side behind one flap. Filling your diesel side at the pump happens all the time. Someone who has to stop and work out where it goes normally tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less commonly. It's in the gap that the slip happens.
AdBlue in the diesel tank around Bilborough: how it happens
Carelessness seldom explains it. Instead is three things lining up together.
On a driveway off Graylands Road before work, or in the car park outside The Pelican heading home: that's where the hurried top-up happens. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and once it's gone, limp mode follows.
The old car's cap is where the hand reaches — yet a hire car, a new motor or a company car keeps the fillers elsewhere. That is a second factor: a new motor.
A spouted bottle meets no obstacle at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. So the pour, after started, keeps on. Whether it takes place in Strelley or the middle of Bilborough, it is the same few seconds.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Before you pour anything, whether on a driveway in Aspley or a forecourt in Bilborough, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- Where it sits can mislead; the cap doesn't. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or carry the word "AdBlue" — diesel ones usually do not.
- Check the size: the smaller filler neck is, on many cars, the AdBlue one.
- Look inside the fuel flap: plenty of cars have a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- Cannot see it next to your diesel inlet? In that case look below the bonnet or inside your boot — the owner's manual says which.
- Check with the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — if you pick up a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside Bulwell.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
For the day the warning appears — anywhere it is in Nottinghamshire — a simple routine to use.
- Pull in on level, motor off, with time to spare — not rushing on the side of Bracebridge Drive.
- Daft as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap works — after you have located the filler and read the cap.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave the vehicle on.
- Slowly does it, through the bottle's own spout, until it's full or the bottle runs out.
- Close the cap, then look again — confirm your diesel filler stayed closed the whole time. After that, start the vehicle.
Stop there if you find, at stage two or three, that you've already poured into the diesel side. Step five is off limits.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Bilborough already?
Short list, then. First: the motor stays unstarted. On plenty of diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so don't switch it on. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where the fuel is drawn from — so don't top up with diesel to thin it.
Ask the attendants to help roll the vehicle clear of the petrol pump if you're at a forecourt — the Asda, the BP or somewhere else. If you're on your own driveway in Bilborough, leave the vehicle where it sits.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if your motor has already run. The next exit is the place to leave when you're on the M1, under 3 miles from Bilborough. Mileage counts — a quick hop across Bilborough makes a smaller job than heading under 5 miles to Nottingham — so say roughly how far it went.
What happens when we get there around Bilborough
Wherever your car has stopped, be it by Melbury Primary School, near Bilborough Community Centre or at home, our van comes to it. What fluid went in, the amount, and whether it ran: our engineers ask since the replies decide both work and price. During the phone call itself, you are told the price — ahead of dispatch.
Draining that tank comes next, followed by a full flush of your system. Not like petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and attacks certain fuel-system metals, and none of that washes out unaided. That is why it matters more. Your filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the car is tested. Before we leave, our engineers fire it up and confirm that it's running smoothly.
Most jobs are done in roughly half an hour after our technicians arrive, as long as your engine hasn't run — and the pumps our technicians use are fine on a live forecourt yet quiet at night outside a house. No money upfront; you settle up that day. At the end, the VAT invoice and a report from the engineer are handed to you for the insurer. Misfuelling cover is part of many insurance policies — and so make use of the wait to look at yours.
About Bilborough and where it is
Bilborough is a suburban area located in Nottinghamshire, England, with a population of around 5418 people, and is situated approximately 3.3 miles from Nottingham. Bilborough sits at an elevation of 75 metres, in a gently sloping inland area, and is characterised by its predominantly semi-detached housing stock. Bilborough is close to nearby places such as Strelley, Beechdale, and Wollaton, and is part of the wider Nottingham urban area. Bilborough is also within commuting distance of major cities, with London being around 110.9 miles away.
AdBlue drains about Bilborough, and Nottinghamshire beyond
Over NG postcodes, the teams covering Bilborough — a residential suburb — work the surrounding places too, Wollaton and Beechdale included. Give a postcode beginning NG8 4, and the van gets there quickest.
The car remains put. Anywhere it stands — near St John's Church Hall and Social Centre, in a lay-by heading to Bilborough Park and Harvey Hadden Sports Village, on a drive — that's where it is cleared. If you are near a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Saint John the Baptist, ring and ask instead of guessing.
The short version for Bilborough people
First, the cap; after that, the tip. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank anyway, leave the vehicle off and ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it sits, anywhere around Nottinghamshire.