Black House Steading: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
Pause here a minute if the diesel tank already has AdBlue in it: ignition off, engine off, then phone 0333 366 0103. Caught before your motor runs, it is generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is around Black House Steading. The rest of this page covers why it occurs and how to ensure it doesn't — handy if you're reading ahead of time.
AdBlue in a diesel motor: two tanks, two fillers
Many modern diesels on the roads round Black House Steading and Nungate carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your motor. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into your exhaust stream and cleans it.
Separate tanks, separate fillers. Under one flap, next to each other: that's the layout on a lot of cars. On others, AdBlue's filler sits under the bonnet or in your boot instead. The diesel side is fuelled at the pump all the time. 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. That gap is where the slip lives.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank occur in Black House Steading?
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
Hurry comes from the warning. The car warns you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank sends it into limp mode — so the top-up happens in a rush, before work on a driveway off A6093, or on the way home in the car park at The Plough Tavern Hotel.
New-to-you motors come second, too. Hire cars, new cars and company cars place their fillers in new places, and the hand reaches for the cap it used on the old one.
A spout-topped bottle meets no resistance at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. And so the tip, once begun, carries on. It takes a few seconds, be it out in Dovecote or right in the heart of Black House Steading.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Be it a Black House Steading forecourt or a drive over in Samuelston, spend a few seconds on these before anything goes in.
- Check the cap instead of going by position: AdBlue caps are often blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones normally aren't.
- The size. On many motors the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Plenty of cars say there which fuel goes where.
- Can't find it next to your diesel inlet? In that case look beneath the bonnet or in the boot — the owner's manual will say which.
- Picking up a hire or company car, say at the car park outside Longniddry? Ask whoever drove the car last before leaving, rather than once the light comes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
Wherever in East Lothian the light comes on, here is a routine for that day.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with your motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Dovecote Way.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it does the trick.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Stop when your tank fills or the bottle runs dry; until then, tip slowly through the built-in spout.
- Close the cap and check once more. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Skip step five entirely.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Black House Steading?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start the motor. On plenty of diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so don't switch it on. Diluting it with extra diesel fails, since AdBlue settles to the bottom instead of mixing — and that's where the fuel is pulled from.
If you are at a forecourt, whether it's the Shell or the JET, ask the attendants to help push the vehicle away from the petrol pump. Leave it where it is if you're on your own driveway in Black House Steading.
Where the engine has been run by now, stop somewhere safe and turn the car off. The next junction is the place to leave when you are on the M8, under 25 miles from Black House Steading. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Edinburgh, under 25 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Black House Steading.
Our arrival around Black House Steading, and what takes place next
Our van comes to your car wherever it stopped — your own drive, beside Burns Family memorial, or outside the local primary school. Both the work and the price rest on three answers — what fluid, which amount, and if it has run — so our technicians ask. You get that quote by phone, before anybody sets off.
Your system is then flushed thoroughly, once the tank is cleared. Unlike petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and attacks some fuel-system metals, and neither clears out by itself. Hence it matters more. The filter cleaned or, if needed, replaced; clean diesel in; and then a test of the car. After that our engineers start the engine and make sure it runs properly before we leave.
If the engine has not run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. It is worth looking at your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with plenty of policies.
About Black House Steading, for a moment
Black House Steading is a locality situated on the riverside in East Lothian, with an elevation of around 60 metres. Black House Steading lies near the towns of Haddington and Dovecote, and is approximately 15 miles from Edinburgh. Black House Steading has a population of around 1047 people, predominantly living in detached houses.
AdBlue drains across East Lothian, Black House Steading included
Haddington and Hailes Terrace are among the towns around Black House Steading, a small village, that the same vans cover, over EH postcodes. A postcode starting EH41 4 gets our van to you fastest.
The car stays where it is. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Backburn Wood, a side street close to Burns Family Well: we drain it where it is. If you are near a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of 2nd Haddington Scout Group, ring and ask rather than guessing.
In short, for Black House Steading people
Read the cap before you tip. Still AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will empty it wherever it stands, anywhere around East Lothian: switch it off then ring 0333 366 0103.