Bowling: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the motor and your ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103. Normally, if your motor has not run, it is drained and fully flushed where the car is in Bowling. If you're 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 motor, and its separate tank
Plenty of newer diesels in Goose Hill, like those in Bowling, run on two liquids; the engine gets just the diesel. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into the exhaust stream to clean it.
Different tanks, separate fillers. On a lot of cars the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in your boot or under the bonnet. Filling the diesel side at the pump happens all the time. Seldom filled, AdBlue usually goes in out of a bottle, tipped by a driver who has to stop and think what filler it needs. The mistake lives in that gap.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank take place around Bowling?
It is rarely carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
On a driveway off Wakefield Road before work, or in the car park outside The Gallopers heading home: that's where the rushed top-up happens. Why the rush? As AdBlue gets low your car warns you, and once it is empty, limp mode follows.
New-to-you motors are second, too. Rentals, new cars and company cars place their fillers in new places, and habit reaches for the cap used on the old one.
A spout-topped bottle finds no resistance at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. So the tip, once started, carries on. It takes seconds, whether in Broomfields or right in the centre of Bowling.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
Before you tip anything, whether on a drive in Swain Green or a forecourt around Bowling, check these. They take a few seconds.
- Check the cap rather than going by where it sits: AdBlue ones are regularly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps usually are not.
- Plenty of motors give AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- Look inside your fuel flap: plenty of vehicles carry a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If the filler is not by the diesel cap, it is in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Collecting a hire or company car, say at the car park at Bradford Interchange? Ask the person who drove it last before leaving, not when the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
Anywhere in West Yorkshire the light comes on, here is a routine for the day.
- Pull in on level, motor off, with time in hand — not rushing on the side of New Hey Road.
- Locate the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and speak the word "AdBlue" out loud as unscrewing it. It seems daft. It does the trick.
- The two behind a single flap? So make sure the lid on your diesel side stays closed before raising the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Only after that, start the car: close the cap, check once more, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
Spot at stage two or three that it's already gone into your diesel side? Then stop right there. Don't carry on to stage five.
Bowling: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
The short order of things, starting with no starting the engine. Don't switch your ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Filling up with diesel won't weaken it: instead, AdBlue sinks to the bottom of your tank, just where the fuel is drawn from.
Ask the attendants to help push your car clear of the petrol pump if you're at a forecourt — the the nearest petrol station, the Shell or anywhere else. Leave it where it is if you're on your own driveway around Bowling.
When the motor has been run already, stop somewhere safe and turn the vehicle off. Bowling sits under 3 miles from the M606; there, use the first exit. A short hop across Bowling is a smaller job than a run towards Bradford, under 3 miles away, so tell us about how far it went.
When our technicians get there in Bowling, what happens?
Outside Lower Fields Primary Academy, near St John's, Bowling or on your own drive: wherever your car has stopped, our engineers come to it. What liquid was put in, the quantity, and if it ran: our technicians ask since the answers decide the work and quote. During the call itself, you are told the quote — ahead of anything else.
Next: a drain, then a full flush of the whole system. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and eats at certain fuel-system metals, and neither washes out unaided. That is why it counts more. A test is at the end: before that, fresh diesel goes in, and your filter is flushed or changed if necessary. We don't leave until it has been fired up and is running smoothly.
If your motor hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we're there, using pumps that are fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night. Nothing upfront; you settle up that day. At the end, the VAT invoice and the report from the engineer go to you for your insurer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it is worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Bowling
Bowling is a suburban area located near Bradford in West Yorkshire, sitting at an elevation of 174 metres. Bowling forms part of the larger urban landscape surrounding Bradford, with nearby places including Broomfields, Dudley Hill, and Ripleyville. Bowling is characterised by its predominantly terraced housing stock, reflecting the area's historical development as a residential suburb.
Bowling and West Yorkshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Dudley Hill and Ripleyville are among the towns near Bowling, a residential suburb, that the same teams cover, throughout BD postcodes. Our van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting BD4 8.
There's no need to move the car. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street close to New Hey Road Methodist Church, a lay-by on the way to Neil Hunt Memorial ground, a drive. Ring and ask rather than guessing if you're near a border, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of Jamiyat Tabligh-ul-Islam Mosque.
In short, for Bowling people
Tip no AdBlue until you've read the cap. AdBlue in the diesel tank regardless? Keep the vehicle off and phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, throughout West Yorkshire.