Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Bottesford: Why It Occurs
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the motor and the ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a thorough flush, done just where the car sits in Bottesford, is usually what it needs if caught before the motor runs. Not happened yet? Further down, the rest of the page explains the reasons it happens and the ways to prevent it altogether.
AdBlue in a diesel motor: two tanks, two fillers
Not one liquid but two: that is what plenty of modern diesels around Bottesford and Lincoln Gardens run, with diesel for your motor. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into the exhaust gas to clean it.
Each tank has its own filler. Under one flap, side by side: that's the layout on a lot of vehicles. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler sits beneath the bonnet or in your boot instead. Diesel goes in at every forecourt call-out, again and again. Seldom topped up, AdBlue usually comes out of a bottle, poured by someone who has to stop and think which cap to use. That gap is where the mistake lives.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank occur around Bottesford?
It's hardly ever carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
On a drive off Church Lane before work, or in the car park outside The Beckwood on the way home: that is where the hurried top-up takes place. Why the rush? As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and if it is empty, 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 did not, and the hand gets to for the cap it would have used on the old one.
No part stops the pour after it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. It takes seconds, be it out in Ashby or right in the heart of Bottesford.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Check these first, at a forecourt in Bottesford or a drive out in Brumby. A few seconds, that's all.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap normally is not. Read it rather than going by where it sits.
- On many vehicles, the size tells: AdBlue has the smaller filler neck.
- Open the flap and check for a label — plenty of vehicles mark which belongs in which inlet just there.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that is where the filler is if it's not by your diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- Collecting a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park outside Scunthorpe? Check with whoever drove the car last before you set off, not when the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
The day the light comes on, anywhere across Lincolnshire, use this routine.
- Pull in on level, engine off, with time to spare — not rushing on the side of Crispin Way.
- Find the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and speak the word "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew it. It sounds silly. It does the trick.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Stop once your tank is topped up or the bottle runs dry; before that, pour slowly using its own spout.
- Before starting the vehicle, shut the cap and check a second time that your diesel cap was never came off.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Step five is out.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Bottesford?
Don't start your engine: that is where the short order of things begins. Leave the ignition off too, since on plenty of diesels switching it on by itself runs the pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where the fuel is pulled from — so don't top up with diesel to thin it.
If you're at a forecourt, whether it's the JET or the another forecourt nearby, ask the staff to help roll your car clear of the pump. Your own driveway in Bottesford is where it stays.
If your engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. Bottesford lies under a mile from the M180; there, take the first junction. A short hop across Bottesford is a smaller job than a run towards Kingston upon Hull, under 25 miles away, so tell us roughly how far it went.
What occurs when our technicians arrive in Bottesford
Outside Bottesford Infant School, near St Peters or on your own drive: wherever the vehicle has stopped, our technicians come to it. Which fluid went in, the amount, and if it ran: our technicians ask because the answers set the work and quote. No one sets off before you have had our price by phone.
Draining that tank comes next, followed by a thorough flush of the fuel system. Unlike petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and eats at some fuel-system metals, and none of that clears away unaided. That is why it matters more. The filter cleaned or, if it must be, swapped; fresh diesel in; and then a test of the car. Before leaving, our engineers fire it up and check that it is running properly.
Using pumps safe on a busy forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs in which the engine hasn't run take about half an hour once our technicians arrive. The insurer usually wants the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and you get both at the end. Payment is on the day, with no money upfront. Misfuelling cover is included in plenty of insurance policies — and so use the wait to check yours.
About Bottesford
Bottesford is a suburban area situated on the riverside in Lincolnshire, with a relatively low elevation of 29 metres. Bottesford lies near several neighbouring communities, including Ashby, Yaddlethorpe, and Riddings, and is located approximately 18 miles from Kingston upon Hull. Bottesford has a population of around 4351 residents, predominantly living in semi-detached housing. Bottesford is also within commuting distance to larger cities, being around 143 miles from London.
AdBlue drains in Bottesford and across Lincolnshire
Bottesford is a residential suburb, and the teams that cover it also work the places around it, Yaddlethorpe and Riddings among them, across the DN postcode area. Quickest of all: give a DN16 3 postcode for the van.
The vehicle does not need to shift. Draining takes place on the spot, be it a driveway, a road near Templar's Bath, or a lay-by towards Bulls Field. Tricky to explain, like the back of Bottesford Village Hall? Close to a border? Asking beats assuming, and so phone.
In short, for Bottesford motorists
Before you pour, read the cap. Even so AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will empty it wherever it is, anywhere across Lincolnshire: keep the car off then call 0333 366 0103.