How It Happens and How to Prevent It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Boulder Clough
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your motor and your ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103. In Boulder Clough, catching it before your engine turns usually leaves a drain and a thorough flush where it stands. If you're reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it does not.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel motor
No single fluid but two: that's how plenty of newer diesels around Boulder Clough and Steep Lane run, with diesel feeding the motor. AdBlue goes to the exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
There's a filler for each tank. On a lot of cars the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in the boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is filled at the petrol pump all the time. Seldom filled, AdBlue normally goes in from a bottle, tipped by a driver who must stop and think what filler to use. That gap is where the slip lives.
Boulder Clough: how AdBlue in your diesel tank takes place
It is hardly ever carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
On a driveway off Higham and Dob Lane before work, or in the car park outside The Rushcart Inn heading home: that is where the hurried top-up happens. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue gets low the car tells you, and once it's empty, limp mode kicks in.
The old car's filler is where your hand reaches — yet a hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers elsewhere. That's the second thing: a new motor.
A spouted bottle meets no obstacle at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. And so the pour, after started, carries on. It's seconds, whether in Hubberton Green or bang in the centre of Boulder Clough.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Check these before pouring, at a forecourt around Boulder Clough or a drive out in Beechwood. Seconds, that's all.
- Blue and marking: an AdBlue cap is often blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually does not. Go by the cap, not where it sits.
- Many motors fit AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Plenty of vehicles say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If your filler isn't by the diesel cap, it is in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Ask the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — when you collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside Sowerby Bridge.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
When the light comes on, wherever across West Yorkshire, use this routine.
- Stop somewhere level, engine off, with time to spare — not rushing on the side of The Dob.
- Daft as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew the cap does the trick — once you have located your filler and read it.
- The two under a single flap? Then make sure the cap on the diesel filler is still closed ahead of raising the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check a second time. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start your car.
Discover during the second or third stage that the bottle went into the wrong filler? That's where you stop. Don't go on to stage five.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Boulder Clough?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start your engine. Don't switch the ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Filling up with diesel won't thin it: rather than mixing, AdBlue sinks to the base of your tank, just where the fuel is drawn from.
On a forecourt — Shell, BP or another — the attendants will usually help roll the car away, when you ask. Your own drive in Boulder Clough is the place it should stay.
Already started? Stop once it is sensible, then switch off. Boulder Clough lies under 5 miles from the M62; there, take the first exit. A short hop across Boulder Clough is a smaller job than a run towards Bradford, under 10 miles away, and so tell us roughly how far it went.
What occurs when our technicians arrive in Boulder Clough
Wherever the vehicle has stopped, whether by Trinity Academy St Peter's, near Sowerby Castle or on your own drive, the van travels to it. Our engineers ask what was put in, about how much, and if it's run, since the replies settle this work and the price. During the call itself, you hear our price — ahead of dispatch.
Then your tank is emptied and the fuel system purged thoroughly. Not like petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and eats at some fuel-system metals, and neither clears out unaided. That is why it matters more. A test comes at the end: before that, fresh diesel goes in, and the filter is cleaned or replaced if necessary. The motor is started next and checked to be sure it runs smoothly, all before our technicians head off.
Unrun cars mostly need a half-hour visit from the moment we arrive. The kit is safe on a busy forecourt, and quiet enough for a driveway late at night. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Misfuelling cover is part of plenty of insurance policies — so use the wait to look at yours.
About Boulder Clough, for a moment
Boulder Clough is a locality situated in West Yorkshire, alongside a river and surrounded by the local landscape. Boulder Clough has a population of around 1054 people and is characterised by terraced housing. Boulder Clough sits at an elevation of 221 metres, approximately 9.8 miles from Bradford and 170.1 miles from London. Boulder Clough is near other local places such as Hubberton Green, Sowerby, and Sowerby Bridge.
Boulder Clough and West Yorkshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Sowerby and Sowerby Bridge are among the places around Boulder Clough, a small village, that the same vans cover, throughout HX postcodes. A postcode starting HX6 1 gets the van to you fastest.
There's no need to shift your car. Anywhere it stands — near Saint Peter's, in a lay-by en route to Stanhope Plantation, at home — that is where it gets drained. Assuming doesn't help behind St Peters' Community Centre, on a border, or somewhere hard to describe; ring and check.
The short version for Boulder Clough people
Read the cap before you tip. Still AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can drain it where it is, wherever across West Yorkshire: keep the vehicle off then ring 0333 366 0103.