How It Happens and How to Avoid It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Bolton upon Dearne
Stop reading for a moment if your diesel tank already holds AdBlue in it: ignition off, engine off, then phone 0333 366 0103. Normally, if your engine hasn't run, it is drained and thoroughly cleaned where the vehicle sits in Bolton upon Dearne. If you are reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it doesn't.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle, and its separate tank
Diesel goes to your motor — yet plenty of current diesels seen around Bolton upon Dearne and Goldthorpe carry a second liquid as well. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Each tank has its own filler. Under one flap, side by side: that is the layout on a lot of motors. On others, AdBlue's filler sits under the bonnet or in the boot instead. The diesel side is fuelled at the pump all the time. Someone who has to stop and work out where it goes usually tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less regularly. It is in that gap that the slip happens.
AdBlue in your diesel tank around Bolton upon Dearne: how it takes place
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low your car tells you, and if it runs out completely, your vehicle goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a drive off Station Road before work, or in the car park outside Jamie's on the way home.
Then, your hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old motor — since a hire car, a new car or a company car places the fillers where your last one did not.
Third, the bottle goes in: a diesel filler or AdBlue one, it slides in just as easily, and once the pour begins, no part halts it. It's seconds, whether in Highgate or right in the centre of Bolton upon Dearne.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Whether a Bolton upon Dearne forecourt or a driveway out in Highwoods, spend a few seconds on these before anything goes in.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap normally isn't. Read it instead of going by where it sits.
- On many cars, size tells: AdBlue has the smaller filler neck.
- Open the filler flap and check for a label — many cars mark which belongs in each filler right there.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that is where your filler is if it is not by your diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- Collecting a hire or company car, say at the car park at Bolton-On-Dearne? Check with the person who drove the car last before leaving, rather than when the light comes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
When the light goes on, anywhere in South Yorkshire, use this routine.
- Pull in somewhere level, motor off, with time to spare — never rushing on the side of Furlong Road.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly 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.
- Finish when your tank is topped up or the bottle is empty; before that, pour slowly using the own spout.
- Only after that, start the vehicle: close the cap, check once more, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
Spot at stage two or three that it has already gone into the diesel side? Then stop just there. Step five is off limits.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, around Bolton upon Dearne?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start the motor. On many diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so do not switch the car on. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where the fuel is pulled from — so do not top up with diesel to thin it.
On a forecourt — BP, Texaco or any other — the attendants will normally help push the vehicle clear, if you ask. Your own driveway in Bolton upon Dearne is the place it stays.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if your engine has already run. The next exit is where to come off when you are on the A1(M), under 5 miles from Bolton upon Dearne. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Doncaster, under 10 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Bolton upon Dearne.
Our arrival around Bolton upon Dearne, and what happens next
Outside Lacewood Primary School, near St Andrew the Apostle or on your own drive: wherever the car has stopped, our engineers come to it. Those answers settle this work and our quote, and so we ask what was put in, about how much, and if it has run. On the call itself, you are told the quote — ahead of anything else.
Draining that tank comes next, followed by a thorough flush of your system. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not wash out on its own. Once your filter is cleaned — or replaced, if needed — fresh diesel goes in, and finally your vehicle is tested. We don't leave until it has been fired up and is running smoothly.
Using pumps fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs where the motor has not run need about half an hour once our engineers are there. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Wrong-fuel cover is included in many insurance policies — so make use of the wait to look at yours.
About Bolton upon Dearne and where it is
Bolton upon Dearne is a town situated on the River Dearne in South Yorkshire, with a population of around 10242 people. Bolton upon Dearne has a mix of housing types, but semi-detached homes are the most common, and it is located near several other communities, including Highgate and Adwick upon Dearne. Bolton upon Dearne sits at an elevation of 37 metres above sea level, close to the town of Doncaster. Bolton upon Dearne is connected to the wider region by its proximity to major roads and railways, making it accessible from cities like London, which is approximately 147.7 miles away.
AdBlue drains around Bolton upon Dearne and across South Yorkshire
Throughout S postcodes, the vans that cover Bolton upon Dearne — a riverside town — work the surrounding spots too, Manvers and Adwick upon Dearne included. Our van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting S63 8.
Moving the car is not needed. The drain happens right there, whether a driveway, a street by WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery, or a layby on the way to Mansion Park. Guessing won't help at the back of Dearne Family Centre, on a border, or anywhere hard to describe; phone and check.
For Bolton upon Dearne drivers, the short version
Pour no AdBlue till you have read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank all the same, leave it off and ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, anywhere across South Yorkshire.